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Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Looking back on the year, here’s a review of the most popular News articles on All About Circuits.


News Dec 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
Introduction to the Inductively-Loaded Class A Power Amplifier

Introduction to the Inductively-Loaded Class A Power Amplifier

Learn how an inductively-loaded common-emitter stage can function as a power amplifier.


Curtiss-Wright Celebrates 120 Years of Aviation Technology

Curtiss-Wright Celebrates 120 Years of Aviation Technology

On the 120th anniversary of the first powered, controlled flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft, we reflect on Curtiss-Wright's legacy as an aviation pioneer.


News Dec 29, 2023 by Duane Benson
Rigid-Flex vs. Traditional PCBs: Making the Right Choice

Rigid-Flex vs. Traditional PCBs: Making the Right Choice

The pros and cons of rigid-flex and traditional rigid PCBs will be compared to help you select the optimal technology for your next electronic system design.


Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

While the rest of the world spent 2023 playing with ChatGPT, the electronics industry put AI into everything from processors to edge IoT chips to EDA tools.


News Dec 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
Building and Certifying an Open-Source IoT Controller, Part 3: Manufacturing and Testing

Building and Certifying an Open-Source IoT Controller, Part 3: Manufacturing and Testing

This four-part series walks through the development of the Anthilla Controller, an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) hardware platform. In Part 3, we cover the manufacturing, assembly, and product testing of the board.


Editor’s Choice: Our Top 7 Technical Articles of 2023

Editor’s Choice: Our Top 7 Technical Articles of 2023

As we look back on the year, let’s take a look at All About Circuits’ most popular and memorable technical content.


News Dec 26, 2023 by Dale Wilson
Happy Holidays—It’s a People Business We’re In, and It Always Has Been

Happy Holidays—It’s a People Business We’re In, and It Always Has Been

On this Christmas day, let’s remember that this is a people business. Enjoy this round up of 2023 articles about people that performed extraordinary engineering work throughout history.


News Dec 25, 2023 by Jeff Child
Frank J. Sprague, the Man Behind the Motors That Remade the Urban Landscape

Frank J. Sprague, the Man Behind the Motors That Remade the Urban Landscape

Navigating the burgeoning cities of the early twentieth century would have been a very different experience without the electromechanical railway and elevator systems designed by Frank Sprague.


News Dec 24, 2023 by Robert Keim
Introduction to Class A Power Amplifiers: The Common-Emitter PA

Introduction to Class A Power Amplifiers: The Common-Emitter PA

RF amplifier design is a challenging task, involving trade-offs between linearity, efficiency, gain, and output power. Here, we examine how a common-emitter circuit can, or can't, function as a power amplifier.


SOT-MRAM May Soon Contend With SRAM for Cache Memory

SOT-MRAM May Soon Contend With SRAM for Cache Memory

Memory at both the HPC and edge levels may get a big leg up with help from magnetics.


News Dec 22, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Infineon Says New 4.5 kV IGBT Modules May Transform Transport Designs

Infineon Says New 4.5 kV IGBT Modules May Transform Transport Designs

Infineon has released XHP 3 IGBT modules to simplify parallelization in complex designs without sacrificing efficiency.


News Dec 21, 2023 by Arjun Nijhawan
Flux Upgrades Its Copilot Tool Adding Multi-Modal AI Features

Flux Upgrades Its Copilot Tool Adding Multi-Modal AI Features

Released today, the upgrade brings improvements—including image capability—in Flux AI Chatbot giving designers a smarter virtual “engineering partner” to help with electronics PCB designs


News Dec 21, 2023 by Duane Benson
How To Perform Fault Classification With an AI-Based Vibration Sensor Node

How To Perform Fault Classification With an AI-Based Vibration Sensor Node

Learn how to use edge AI technology to do predictive maintenance, leveraging machine learning, vibration sensors, and wireless connectivity.


Quantum Technology Takes on the Task of Electrical Die Sorting

Quantum Technology Takes on the Task of Electrical Die Sorting

Rohm has teamed up with Quanmatics to deploy quantum technology in a large-scale semiconductor manufacturing facility for the first time.


News Dec 20, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Building and Certifying an Open-Source IoT Controller, Part 2: Open-Source Certification

Building and Certifying an Open-Source IoT Controller, Part 2: Open-Source Certification

In this four-part series, we walk through the development of the Anthilla Controller, an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) hardware platform. Part 2 explains the process and requirements of obtaining an open-source hardware certification.


Intel Announces the Company’s Largest Architectural Change in 40 Years

Intel Announces the Company’s Largest Architectural Change in 40 Years

Intel's new Core Ultra mobile processors and 5th Gen Xeon processors build in AI acceleration with specialized cores, marking the biggest architectural change since the 80286.


News Dec 19, 2023 by Duane Benson
International Researchers Move the Needle on Memristor Technology

International Researchers Move the Needle on Memristor Technology

Academics across the globe have made concurrent breakthroughs in a new form of non-volatile memory.


News Dec 19, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Orbbec Leverages Nvidia Jetson in 3D Vision Camera-Computer Kit

Orbbec Leverages Nvidia Jetson in 3D Vision Camera-Computer Kit

Orbbec's new camera-computer kit for 3D vision is a lesson in AI collaboration.


News Dec 18, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Renesas Targets Graphics and Multimodal AI With Second-Gen RA8 MCUs

Renesas Targets Graphics and Multimodal AI With Second-Gen RA8 MCUs

Based on the Arm Cortex-M85 processor, Renesas' RA8D1 provides high-performance graphics and security for consumer, medical, and industrial applications.


News Dec 18, 2023 by Arjun Nijhawan