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UK Rail Company Pursues Concept of Trains Powered by Biowaste

UK Rail Company Pursues Concept of Trains Powered by Biowaste

With the goal of sustainability, the company plans to pair human- and animal-waste-powered electronics with mechanical energy storage.


News Jan 05, 2021 by Jake Hertz
The Initial State of Finite State Machines and the Memory Debate

The Initial State of Finite State Machines and the Memory Debate

This article discusses the use of finite state machines (or FSMs) in design, including the initial state and the way memory configuration affects FPGA design.


Data Centers are Only Getting Hotter, But Circuit Cooling Techniques Can Help

Data Centers are Only Getting Hotter, But Circuit Cooling Techniques Can Help

Data centers are increasingly overburdened, which drives up the heat. What are some common methods to cool them down?


Xilinx Joins Confidential Computing Consortium With Hopes to Bring Security to Accelerators

Xilinx Joins Confidential Computing Consortium With Hopes to Bring Security to Accelerators

The Confidential Computing Consortium is drilling down on hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments, and Xilinx is the newest member to benefit.


News Jan 04, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Worth Over $20 Billion by 2041, Transparent Electronics Have a Clear Trajectory

Worth Over $20 Billion by 2041, Transparent Electronics Have a Clear Trajectory

A recent report from IDTechEx predicts that the transparent electronics industry will be worth over $20 billion by 2041. What is this technology and why does it have such a great potential upside?


News Jan 02, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Creating Finite State Machines in Verilog

Creating Finite State Machines in Verilog

This article describes the basics of finite state machines and shows a practical way of implementing them in the Verilog Hardware Description Language.


Reflections on the Year Ahead: Engineers, Science, and the Legacy of 2020

Reflections on the Year Ahead: Engineers, Science, and the Legacy of 2020

In a world increasingly influenced by scientific assessments and pronouncements, EE insights can extend beyond signals and circuits.


News Jan 01, 2021 by Robert Keim
Designing with a Heat Sink for Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance

Designing with a Heat Sink for Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance

Watch the thermal measurement, junction-to-case thermal resistance, in action as we use it to calculate the thermal considerations for a given system.


Hydrogen Fuel Cells Take to the Sky to Power Commercial Aircrafts

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Take to the Sky to Power Commercial Aircrafts

Hydrogen-fueled aviation could be a common reality within the next 15 years, according to a new report.


News Dec 31, 2020 by Jake Hertz
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IWR6843AOPEVM Antenna-on-Package (AoP) EVM | New Product Brief

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IWR6843AOPEVM Antenna-on-Package (AoP) EVM | 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.


Can Wide-Bandgap Devices Help Lead to a Carbon-Neutral Future?

Can Wide-Bandgap Devices Help Lead to a Carbon-Neutral Future?

STMicroelectronics announced a goal to be carbon neutral by 2027, and they plan to get there by using wide-bandgap semiconductors. How might this technology bring the industry toward carbon neutrality?


News Dec 31, 2020 by Jake Hertz
ANALOG DEVICES INC. ADuM7702 16-bit Sigma-Delta Modulators | Featured Product Spotlight

ANALOG DEVICES INC. ADuM7702 16-bit Sigma-Delta Modulators | Featured Product Spotlight

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


Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance in Thermal Design

Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance in Thermal Design

Learn about an important thermal metric for designing the interface between an IC package and a heat sink.


Efforts to Bring Chip Manufacturing to U.S. Soil Will Continue in 2021

Efforts to Bring Chip Manufacturing to U.S. Soil Will Continue in 2021

The U.S. government has made big pushes for domestic chip manufacturing in 2020. What does this trajectory look like for 2021?


News Dec 30, 2020 by Luke James
AMS TMF8801 1D Time-of-Flight Sensor | New Product Brief

AMS TMF8801 1D Time-of-Flight Sensor | 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 New Manufacturing Method May Pull Nanowires From the Research Realm to Market

A New Manufacturing Method May Pull Nanowires From the Research Realm to Market

Nanowires are seeing drastic advances in academia, emphasizing the promise that they offer the optoelectronics industry.


News Dec 30, 2020 by Jake Hertz
MAXIM INTEGRATED TMC5160A Motor Controller & Driver ICs | Featured Product Spotlight

MAXIM INTEGRATED TMC5160A Motor Controller & Driver ICs | Featured Product Spotlight

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


Theta JA (θ<sub>JA</sub>) Test Conditions for Assessing IC Package Thermal Design

Theta JA (θJA) Test Conditions for Assessing IC Package Thermal Design

Junction-to-ambient thermal resistance (or θJA) should be measured under standardized testing conditions. Learn about these details to use this thermal metric appropriately.


Researchers Propose A New “Unhackable” Transistor

Researchers Propose A New “Unhackable” Transistor

Protecting IP is a serious concern in the semiconductor industry, where threats like counterfeiting, reverse engineering, and piracy run rampant. Researchers from Purdue say they may have a solution.


News Dec 29, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Molex Pico Lock Connector System | Heilind Electronics

Molex Pico Lock Connector System | Heilind Electronics

AAC’s Digital Datasheet video series introduces the specs and applications of components—both new and familiar—straight from their datasheets.