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MOLEX LTE/5G Cellular External Antenna | New Product Brief

MOLEX LTE/5G Cellular External Antenna | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


BOURNS SRP1580CA AEC-Q200 Shielded Power Inductor | New Product Brief

BOURNS SRP1580CA AEC-Q200 Shielded Power Inductor | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


MICROCHIP SAM R34 LoRa® Sub-GHz System-in-Package Family | New Product Brief

MICROCHIP SAM R34 LoRa® Sub-GHz System-in-Package Family | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Graphene and Magnetics On the Brain: Researching Bioelectronic Brain Implants

Graphene and Magnetics On the Brain: Researching Bioelectronic Brain Implants

As the gap between electronics and biology grows smaller, more devices are being researched. Recently, a focus has been on bioelectronics, namely implants for your brain.


News Jun 19, 2021 by Nicholas St. John
Examining the Negative Resistance of a Quartz Crystal Oscillator

Examining the Negative Resistance of a Quartz Crystal Oscillator

This article discusses how we can examine the oscillator circuit to make sure that it has sufficient “negative resistance” or “oscillation allowance”.


PANASONIC PAN1780 BLUETOOTH® 5.0 Low Energy Module | New Product Brief

PANASONIC PAN1780 BLUETOOTH® 5.0 Low Energy Module | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


IoT Energy Harvesting Challenges: e-peas Tackles It Head-on with New PMICs

IoT Energy Harvesting Challenges: e-peas Tackles It Head-on with New PMICs

With its new PMIC, e-peas hopes to enable more performant energy harvesting for IoT devices. But to do so, what are the challenges that come with IoT energy harvesting?


News Jun 18, 2021 by Jake Hertz
MURATA UltraBK™ 4A/6A DC/DC Converter Module | New Product Brief

MURATA UltraBK™ 4A/6A DC/DC Converter Module | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


A “Shelf-life” for FinFETs? Samsung and TSMC Improve Node Density for RF

A “Shelf-life” for FinFETs? Samsung and TSMC Improve Node Density for RF

Single-digit node process is nothing new, but existing technology hampers RF performance due to parasitics. Samsung Foundry and TSMC seek to bring single-digit node performance to RF chips.


News Jun 17, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
ANALOG DEVICES INC. AD9081 MxFE® Quad ADCs | Featured Product Spotlight

ANALOG DEVICES INC. AD9081 MxFE® Quad ADCs | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


ROHM SEMICONDUCTOR Optoelectronics | Featured Product Spotlight

ROHM SEMICONDUCTOR Optoelectronics | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


TDK’s 3 MEMS Microphones Target Quality and Power for IoT and Mobile Applications

TDK’s 3 MEMS Microphones Target Quality and Power for IoT and Mobile Applications

In an effort for improved quality and lower power, TDK has released three new MEMS microphone solutions. How are these microphones pushing the limits of MEMS technology?


News Jun 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Assessing the Effect of Load Capacitance on the Frequency of a Quartz Crystal

Assessing the Effect of Load Capacitance on the Frequency of a Quartz Crystal

Learn how the load capacitance mismatch can “pull” the crystal to oscillate at a different frequency and how we can circumvent this problem.


INFINEON EVAL-IMM101T-046 Starter Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

INFINEON EVAL-IMM101T-046 Starter Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR Excelon™ Ferroelectric-RAM (F-RAM) | Featured Product Spotlight

CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR Excelon™ Ferroelectric-RAM (F-RAM) | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


3 New Image Signal Processors Target Power, Speed, and Autonomous Driving

3 New Image Signal Processors Target Power, Speed, and Autonomous Driving

The push towards autonomous driving is showing a flux of companies releasing image signal processors. What exactly is being improved?


News Jun 16, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Microchip and EPC Combat Radiation With New Rad-hard FETs

Microchip and EPC Combat Radiation With New Rad-hard FETs

Technology for space applications has been an important part of 2021, thus more components are coming out that are rad-hard. Recently, two new FETS have come out, what do they bring to this space?


News Jun 15, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Xilinx’s Versal AI Edge Blends the Border Between Programming and EEs

Xilinx’s Versal AI Edge Blends the Border Between Programming and EEs

Wrapping up a two-part series on the new Versal AI Edge series ACAP from Xilinx, AAC talks about the intersection of engineering disciplines and ACAP applications.


News Jun 15, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
From GaN to Energy Storage: APEC is Back for 2021

From GaN to Energy Storage: APEC is Back for 2021

Kicking off today until June 17th is the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). What presenters and innovative topics are on this year's agenda?


News Jun 14, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
Creating a “Super Pixel”: Samsung Claims Industry’s Smallest Mobile Image Sensor

Creating a “Super Pixel”: Samsung Claims Industry’s Smallest Mobile Image Sensor

Last week, Samsung released their newest mobile image sensor which they claim is the industry’s smallest pixel size. What are the implications of this shrinking?


News Jun 14, 2021 by Jake Hertz