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PLC Design Board Aims at Industry 4.0 Applications

PLC Design Board Aims at Industry 4.0 Applications

Industry 4.0 is here now, and Maxim's Pocket IO PLC development platform shows how it can reinvigorate manufacturing operations with tiny sensors and distributed control units.


News Nov 09, 2016 by Majeed Ahmad
Focusing on Phase: The All-Pass Filter

Focusing on Phase: The All-Pass Filter

How do you design a filter that (ideally) has the same gain for all frequencies? And, furthermore, why would you want to do this?


Microsoft Proposes FPGA-Assisted Servers to Gain Speed at the End of Moore’s Law

Microsoft Proposes FPGA-Assisted Servers to Gain Speed at the End of Moore’s Law

Microsoft uses programmable chips to offer an accelerated implementation for a number of algorithms such as machine learning, pattern matching, and more.


News Nov 07, 2016 by Dr. Steve Arar
One-Nanometer Transistor Keeps Moore’s Law Relevant Another Year

One-Nanometer Transistor Keeps Moore’s Law Relevant Another Year

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created the world's first 1nm gate.


News Nov 04, 2016 by Zabrel Holsman
How to Build a Touchless MIDI Controller with Arduino

How to Build a Touchless MIDI Controller with Arduino

Learn how to build your own touchless MIDI controller using an Arduino... video and code file included.


Projects Nov 03, 2016 by Evan Kale
Computers Designed to Mimic Human Brains May Achieve Truly Intelligent AI

Computers Designed to Mimic Human Brains May Achieve Truly Intelligent AI

Semiconductor producer SK Hynix have announced that they are partnering up with Stanford University to research and develop a semiconductor device that will resemble the human brain. How will this affect computing in the future and what can we expect from such devices?


News Nov 02, 2016 by Robin Mitchell
Analyzing Circuits via Source Transformation

Analyzing Circuits via Source Transformation

This article uses examples to explain the technique of source transformation.


Teardown Tuesday: Amazon Echo Dot v2

Teardown Tuesday: Amazon Echo Dot v2

The Amazon Echo Dot v2 is out. Here's a look inside.


News Nov 01, 2016 by Mark Hughes
Build Your Own Low-Resistance Meter

Build Your Own Low-Resistance Meter

This project will show you how to make a device that can measure resistances as low as 0.1 ohms.


Projects Oct 26, 2016 by Robin Mitchell
Silicon Carbide Chips Kickstart a New Era in Power Electronics

Silicon Carbide Chips Kickstart a New Era in Power Electronics

SiC devices—both diodes and transistors—are making inroads in automotive, energy, and industrial environments amid high-power handling capability and power loss savings.


News Oct 24, 2016 by Majeed Ahmad
Antenna Basics: Radiation Patterns, Permittivity, Directivity, and Gain

Antenna Basics: Radiation Patterns, Permittivity, Directivity, and Gain

Antennas allow information to be transferred to distant locations. In the second part of this Antenna Basics series, you will learn more about the physics of how antennas work.


C-BISCUIT: Schematic Design for the RCB—Power, Stepper

C-BISCUIT: Schematic Design for the RCB—Power, Stepper

We’ll continue our discussion of the C-BISCUIT demo bot by looking at portions of the RCB schematic that weren’t covered in the previous article.


Projects Oct 07, 2016 by Robert Keim
Many Functions, One Tool: The Analog Discovery 2 from Digilent

Many Functions, One Tool: The Analog Discovery 2 from Digilent

An introduction to the Analog Discovery 2 by Digilent.


Creating Novel Linux Controllers for Wearable Devices

Creating Novel Linux Controllers for Wearable Devices

Embedded and wearable systems require new ideas for input controller hardware. But older software still expects a keyboard and mouse. How do we bridge the gap without having to write kernel drivers?


Build Your Own Metal Detector with an Arduino

Build Your Own Metal Detector with an Arduino

Building a metal detector using a Colpitts oscillator and an Arduino.


Projects Oct 03, 2016 by Evan Kale
The End of the Age of MOSFETs? Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors

The End of the Age of MOSFETs? Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors

Research published earlier this month benchmarks a new carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor performing with a current 1.9 times higher than state-of-the-art silicon counterparts.


News Sep 30, 2016 by Zabrel Holsman
The Crop Duster Buster! A Launchpad-Controlled Clapper

The Crop Duster Buster! A Launchpad-Controlled Clapper

The Crop Duster Buster is sure to keep your pet's toot smell away!


Projects Sep 26, 2016 by Ryan Jones
C-BISCUIT: Schematic Design for the RCB—Microcontroller, Motor Controller

C-BISCUIT: Schematic Design for the RCB—Microcontroller, Motor Controller

In this article we’ll take a close look at two sections of the custom-designed control board for the C-BISCUIT demo bot.


Projects Sep 21, 2016 by Robert Keim
Researchers at IBM Have Prototyped a 3 Bits-Per-Cell PCM

Researchers at IBM Have Prototyped a 3 Bits-Per-Cell PCM

Researchers at IBM’s Zurich laboratory have demonstrated the feasibility of 3 bits-per-cell storage using phase-change memory (PCM) technology under large temperature fluctuations.


News Sep 17, 2016 by Dr. Steve Arar
What Does Renesas’ Intersil Deal Mean for the Evolution of MCUs?

What Does Renesas’ Intersil Deal Mean for the Evolution of MCUs?

Microcontrollers meet analog and power management ICs for creating powerful automotive SoCs.


News Sep 16, 2016 by Majeed Ahmad