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Energizing the Future: Real-Time Precision in Renewable Energy Management

Energizing the Future: Real-Time Precision in Renewable Energy Management

Texas Instruments’ General Manager of Grid Infrastructure and Power Supply, Henrik Mannesson, joins us on the Moore’s Lobby podcast to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with real-time energy measurement and management in the age of renewables.


Targeting the Secure Edge, NXP Adds All Purpose MCU to Its MCX Family

Targeting the Secure Edge, NXP Adds All Purpose MCU to Its MCX Family

Unveiled today, the new MCUs bring an optimized and cost-effective blend of performance and peripherals.


News Jan 30, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Microchip Prioritizes Customizable Logic in New 8-bit MCUs

Microchip Prioritizes Customizable Logic in New 8-bit MCUs

Outfitted with a configurable logic block module, the new MCUs integrate customizable logic to reduce BOM and improve performance.


News Jan 29, 2024 by Jake Hertz
TE CONNECTIVITY U5601 Wireless Pressure Transducer | New Product Brief

TE CONNECTIVITY U5601 Wireless Pressure Transducer | New Product Brief

TE Connectivity's U5601 Wireless Pressure Transducer, featuring BLE 4.2 communication, offer high-resolution digital output, battery monitoring, and customizable data updates via a mobile app. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Melexis Releases ‘Revolutionary’ MEMS Pressure Sensor for EV Cooling

Melexis Releases ‘Revolutionary’ MEMS Pressure Sensor for EV Cooling

Melexis is debuting its Triphibian technology in a new MEMS pressure sensor that measures both gas and liquid—and is robust enough to survive a frozen state.


News Jan 29, 2024 by Duane Benson
Performing Design for Manufacturing Checks on Gerber Files

Performing Design for Manufacturing Checks on Gerber Files

Avoid mistakes when exporting PCB files from your EDA tools into the Gerber format by understanding the translation process and using DFM tools.


Building IoT Sensors Armed With AI, Wi-Fi 6, and Matter Capabilities

Building IoT Sensors Armed With AI, Wi-Fi 6, and Matter Capabilities

In this news analysis piece, Nthatisi discusses crafting sensors equipped with Wi-Fi 6, Matter, and Machine Learning using Silicon Labs' SiWx917 IoT device.


News Jan 27, 2024 by Nthatisi Hlapisi
Introduction to Transmission Line Transformers and the Bifilar Coil

Introduction to Transmission Line Transformers and the Bifilar Coil

Learn how a bifilar coil can be used to design transformers for high-frequency RF applications.


Renesas Hits Milestone for Lowest Power-Consuming BLE SoC

Renesas Hits Milestone for Lowest Power-Consuming BLE SoC

Renesas says the new SoC effectively walks the tightrope between on-chip memory and die size.


News Jan 26, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Understanding Gerber Layers for PCBs and Stencils

Understanding Gerber Layers for PCBs and Stencils

Gerber layers don’t have to be a mystery. Knowing the names and purposes of each Gerber layer used in PCB manufacturing can improve your designs and ease communication with the board house.


Siemens Devises Secure Way to Share IC Thermal Models to E-Supply Chain

Siemens Devises Secure Way to Share IC Thermal Models to E-Supply Chain

IC designers can now securely share thermal models across the supply chain—without compromising critical details about chip architecture.


News Jan 25, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Acquires Ansys for $35 Billion, Bolstering Its Simulation Prowess

Synopsys Acquires Ansys for $35 Billion, Bolstering Its Simulation Prowess

Synopsys is set to acquire simulation software firm Ansys to further advance its systems design offerings


News Jan 24, 2024 by Ingrid Fadelli
Understanding the Non-Idealities of Magnetically Coupled RF Transformers

Understanding the Non-Idealities of Magnetically Coupled RF Transformers

In this article, we’ll learn about the limitations of magnetically coupled transformers in RF applications by modeling the devices' high-frequency non-idealities.


Behind the Largest Family of Automotive Multi-Channel Temperature Sensors

Behind the Largest Family of Automotive Multi-Channel Temperature Sensors

Microchip recently announced the MCP998x family of automotive-grade, multi-channel temperature sensors—the so-called largest portfolios of its kind in the industry.


News Jan 23, 2024 by Arjun Nijhawan
The First Speech Synthesis ICs Issue Acoustic Alerts From Silent EVs

The First Speech Synthesis ICs Issue Acoustic Alerts From Silent EVs

The first set of dedicated speech synthesis ICs addresses the limitations of microcontroller-based voice systems.


News Jan 23, 2024 by Duane Benson
Renesas Snaps Up GaN Specialist Transphorm for $339 Million

Renesas Snaps Up GaN Specialist Transphorm for $339 Million

The acquisition marks a larger trend of consolidation in the GaN industry.


News Jan 22, 2024 by Jake Hertz
New Microchip Ethernet Switches Include TSN and Range of Port Bandwidths

New Microchip Ethernet Switches Include TSN and Range of Port Bandwidths

The new Ethernet switches offer scalable bandwidths, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and two separate redundancy protocols for increased reliability.


News Jan 22, 2024 by Arjun Nijhawan
Balun Basics and Practical Performance Parameters

Balun Basics and Practical Performance Parameters

Learn about the balun, a special type of transformer used in mixers, amplifiers, and signaling.


These 3 Hardware Startups Brought Engineering Ingenuity to the CES Stage

These 3 Hardware Startups Brought Engineering Ingenuity to the CES Stage

This year’s event was full of advances in fields ranging from EV charging to ESD prevention.


News Jan 20, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Introduction to the Directional Coupler for RF Applications

Introduction to the Directional Coupler for RF Applications

As part of a vector network analyzer (VNA), a directional coupler enables us to characterize a device’s performance by its S-parameters. Read this article to learn more about this important piece of equipment.