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Your Guide to Industry Tech Days 2023

Your Guide to Industry Tech Days 2023

Welcome to Industry Tech Days 2023! This guide will help you navigate through the major features of the show and plan your participation.


News Oct 01, 2023 by Dale Wilson
Keysight Unwraps EDA Tool Suite for Boosting RF and 5G Design Productivity

Keysight Unwraps EDA Tool Suite for Boosting RF and 5G Design Productivity

The Keysight EDA 2024 tool suite promises to provide end-to-end design, modeling. and simulation with “shift left” workflow tools designed to increase productivity in the RF/5G world.


News Sep 30, 2023 by Duane Benson
An Introduction to Filters

An Introduction to Filters

Learn about various types of filters, including common terminology and important characteristics.


Microchip Claims Industry’s First Low Pin Count MCU Family With I3C Support

Microchip Claims Industry’s First Low Pin Count MCU Family With I3C Support

Microchip’s latest MCU shows that big things can come in small packages.


News Sep 29, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Simulating Pulse-Frequency Modulation for DC-DC Converters

Simulating Pulse-Frequency Modulation for DC-DC Converters

Using a pulse-frequency-modulated buck converter as an example, this article describes techniques for incorporating PFM into switching regulator design and simulations.


MIPI Alliance Reports Successful Plugfest of Three I3C Specifications

MIPI Alliance Reports Successful Plugfest of Three I3C Specifications

This year’s Plugfest helped validate I3C and build out its ecosystem amongst some of the industry’s leaders.


News Sep 28, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Understanding the Challenges of Image Signal Processing Calibration

Understanding the Challenges of Image Signal Processing Calibration

Calibrating your image signal processor is a complex engineering task, but it's critical for digital image quality. Learn about these nuances and about the resources available to help you tackle these challenges.


GaN Transistors Double Down on Size and Power Efficiency

GaN Transistors Double Down on Size and Power Efficiency

Whether in space or on the ground, these GaN-based transistors unlock new benefits compared to silicon.


News Sep 27, 2023 by Aaron Carman
ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS ACS37600 Hall-Based Linear Sensors | New Product Brief

ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS ACS37600 Hall-Based Linear Sensors | New Product Brief

Allegro MicroSystems’ ACS37600K Hall-Based Linear Sensors represent cutting-edge linear sensor ICs tailored for industrial, commercial, and communications applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Pulse-Frequency Modulation for Switching Regulators

Pulse-Frequency Modulation for Switching Regulators

What’s the difference between PFM and PWM? We explore pulse-frequency modulation as a technique for controlling the output voltage of a switch-mode voltage regulator.


System Challenges of Generative AI Inference Acceleration

System Challenges of Generative AI Inference Acceleration

When you look under the hood of generative AI processing, the system design challenges are many. Learn how efficiency, power consumption, and memory issues all come into play.


LITTELFUSE EBU - 51955 & 51956 Flange Mounts | Featured Product Spotlight

LITTELFUSE EBU - 51955 & 51956 Flange Mounts | Featured Product Spotlight

Littelfuse 59155 and 59156 subminiature flange mounting reed sensors stand out as the smallest of their kind on the market, tailored for industrial, appliances, and IoT proximity sensing applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


New Test & Measurement Tools Rise to Meet the Needs of High-Frequency Devices

New Test & Measurement Tools Rise to Meet the Needs of High-Frequency Devices

New test tools from Siglent, Teledyne LeCroy, and Keysight flex frequency range, accuracy, flexibility, and resolution.


News Sep 26, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Intel Develops Glass Substrate for Next Gen Advanced Chip Packaging Needs

Intel Develops Glass Substrate for Next Gen Advanced Chip Packaging Needs

Intel has unveiled new glass substrate technology for large chiplet based system-in-package chips. Glass substrates allow for denser packing of chiplets—an important for applications like AI and others.


News Sep 25, 2023 by Duane Benson
Navitas Technology Takes GaN to New Power Heights

Navitas Technology Takes GaN to New Power Heights

A new and improved GaN technology is moving from the cell phone charger market into higher power, high-reliability applications. EE Power spoke with Navitas’ Stephen Oliver to find out how, and we’ve got everything engineers need to know.


Bluetooth LE: Security Modes and Procedures Explained

Bluetooth LE: Security Modes and Procedures Explained

In Bluetooth LE (BLE), security is a multifaceted beast. Learn the three main security modes of BLE, along with five critical BLE security procedures.


Chipmakers, Researchers, and Hobbyists Show Off the Many Faces of RISC-V

Chipmakers, Researchers, and Hobbyists Show Off the Many Faces of RISC-V

In this roundup, we review the ways RISC-V is making its mark in the computing world—from small-scale gaming projects to large-scale corporate initiatives.


News Sep 23, 2023 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
X7R, X5R, C0G…: A Concise Guide to Ceramic Capacitor Types

X7R, X5R, C0G…: A Concise Guide to Ceramic Capacitor Types

This technical brief attempts to dispel some of the fog surrounding the three-character naming convention used to describe ceramic caps.


Closed-Loop Control for an LTspice Switching Regulator

Closed-Loop Control for an LTspice Switching Regulator

Learn how to simulate a switching voltage regulator with a voltage-controlled PWM waveform in LTspice.


SiTime Targets Data Centers and Network Gear With MEMS OXCO Family

SiTime Targets Data Centers and Network Gear With MEMS OXCO Family

Armed with specifications well suited to data center and network infrastructure needs, these new MEMS-based oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OXCOs) ensure robust precision timing.


News Sep 22, 2023 by Jake Hertz