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How to Protect Low-Speed Interfaces and Power Supply Circuits

How to Protect Low-Speed Interfaces and Power Supply Circuits

In this installation of the "Protect Your Ports! Top Design Tips to Keep Your Communications Connected" series, we'll discuss low-speed interfaces and power supply circuits—including audio/video ports, DC power supplies, and more—as well as various methods of how to protect them.


Optimizing Power Management with NXP’s i.MX RT500 Crossover MCU

Optimizing Power Management with NXP’s i.MX RT500 Crossover MCU

This article provides an introduction to microcontroller power management concepts. The NXP i.MX RT500 family of crossover MCUs will be used to provide examples of how these power management concepts can be employed by embedded developers in their applications.


Maxim’s Digital IO IC’s Shrink LiDAR Technology for SICK AG’s Safety Scanner

Maxim’s Digital IO IC’s Shrink LiDAR Technology for SICK AG’s Safety Scanner

Maxim Integrated and SICK AG have teamed up for, what they are calling, the industry’s smallest LiDAR scanner for safety.


News Jun 29, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Design Tips for Protecting High-Speed Interfaces

Design Tips for Protecting High-Speed Interfaces

In this second installment of the "Protect Your Ports! Top Design Tips to Keep Your Communications Connected" series, we explore what protecting high-speed interfaces looks like, including USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, and eSATA.


IBM Accelerates Germany as a Quantum Hub with EU’s First Quantum Computer

IBM Accelerates Germany as a Quantum Hub with EU’s First Quantum Computer

Quantum computing momentum just got faster with the EU's first quantum computer: IBM's "Quantum System One." What could this computer mean for the EU, quantum technology, and Germany?


News Jun 24, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
Ep. 27 | Two Google Senior VPs of Engineering: From Shipping Containers to Today’s Data Centers

Ep. 27 | Two Google Senior VPs of Engineering: From Shipping Containers to Today’s Data Centers

As Google’s risen from just a search engine to becoming the world’s gateway to the internet, Luiz Barroso and Amin Vahdat have shown just how important EEs are to the hardware and compute side of a fully connected world that relies on data centers. Come for the insights. Stay for the terrible circuit puns.


Podcasts Jun 22, 2021 by Dave Finch
Supporting the AI Boom: Facing the Challenges of Hardware and Deployment

Supporting the AI Boom: Facing the Challenges of Hardware and Deployment

AI has been a hot topic recently, especially this week. With all the efforts coming out, there is a growing need for better hardware, collaborating, and easing deployment.


News Jun 11, 2021 by Rushi Patel
Easing the Effort: Mipsology Accelerates ML with Zebra FPGA IP

Easing the Effort: Mipsology Accelerates ML with Zebra FPGA IP

Today, Mipsology is announcing its solution for FPGA programming: Zebra FPGA IP. This IP aims to ease FPGA programming, giving the designer more time to design.


News Jun 09, 2021 by Sam Holland
Ditching Radar: Tesla Bets on Computer Vision for the Future of ADAS

Ditching Radar: Tesla Bets on Computer Vision for the Future of ADAS

Last week, Tesla announced that it will abandon radar in favor of camera-based vision for the future of its ADS. What are the benefits and drawbacks of such a system?


News Jun 04, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Arm’s Total Compute: Diving Into Its New Mali GPUs

Arm’s Total Compute: Diving Into Its New Mali GPUs

Recently, Arm released its Total Compute solutions which included four new GPU offerings. Here is a deeper look into what each one is offering.


News Jun 01, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Arm’s Total Compute: Dive Deeper Into Its New CPU Offerings

Arm’s Total Compute: Dive Deeper Into Its New CPU Offerings

Recently, Arm released its Total Compute solutions which included three new CPU offerings. Here is a deeper look into what each one is offering.


News May 28, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Arm’s Largest Release Yet: Total Compute Brings 3 CPUs and 4 GPUs to the Table

Arm’s Largest Release Yet: Total Compute Brings 3 CPUs and 4 GPUs to the Table

Arm's new suite for its Total Compute solutions platform includes three new CPUs and four new GPUs and promises improvements in performance, security, and developer access.


News May 27, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Intel Zeros in on At-home Workers with New Processor Families

Intel Zeros in on At-home Workers with New Processor Families

Intel targets gamers, content creators, and workplace professionals with its new families of processors. What benefits do these processors bring to the table?


News May 26, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Xilinx Aims to Speed Up System Design with Gen3 RF SoM

Xilinx Aims to Speed Up System Design with Gen3 RF SoM

One method of accelerating system design is with a system-on-module (SoM). The newest XRF16-Gen3 Xilinx-based SoM from AVNET has improvements worth evaluating.


News May 24, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
NVIDIA Makes Waves in the Industry with ADLINK

NVIDIA Makes Waves in the Industry with ADLINK

ADLink has tapped into NVIDIA’s resources for two new products this month, sealing its impact in the electronics industry.


News May 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Solving Quantum Challenges with Photonic Quantum Chips

Solving Quantum Challenges with Photonic Quantum Chips

Though research on quantum computing is booming, there are still many real-world challenges to overcome, though photonic quantum chips might help.


News May 15, 2021 by Kristijan Nelkovski
Intel Addresses the Quantum Interconnect Bottleneck with Horse Ridge Cryogenic IC

Intel Addresses the Quantum Interconnect Bottleneck with Horse Ridge Cryogenic IC

In a recent article in Nature, Intel has quantitatively proven the efficacy of their cryogenic IC Horse Ridge.


News May 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Samsung Shoots for High-performance Computing with 2.5D High-bandwidth Memory

Samsung Shoots for High-performance Computing with 2.5D High-bandwidth Memory

Die stacking is becoming more commonplace with Samsung Electronics' next-generation 2.5D advanced package technology.


News May 10, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Of Slide Switches and Interface Design: Introspection on UX and EEs

Of Slide Switches and Interface Design: Introspection on UX and EEs

A lesser-discussed aspect of electronics design, user experience, can be the difference between a good product and a great one. A new set of slide switches sparks some philosophical contemplation.


News Apr 30, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Mega Chip Packs 2.6 Trillion Transistors on One Huge Piece of Silicon

Mega Chip Packs 2.6 Trillion Transistors on One Huge Piece of Silicon

Two years after releasing the "world's largest computer chip," AI computing startup Cerebras Systems is upping the transistor punch from 1.2 trillion to 2.6 trillion.


News Apr 22, 2021 by Jake Hertz