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SiC’s Popularity Becomes More Evident in New Chips and Recent Wafer Acquisitions

SiC’s Popularity Becomes More Evident in New Chips and Recent Wafer Acquisitions

Get an update on the acquisitions and developments surrounding SiC chips, modules, and power stacks.


News May 13, 2019 by Majeed Ahmad
The Early History of the Oscilloscope: Amber and Frog Legs

The Early History of the Oscilloscope: Amber and Frog Legs

Here is the first part in a series of the history of the oscilloscope, building up from the discovery electricity to the first rudimentary measuring tools using frog legs.


News May 11, 2019 by Chantelle Dubois
Phoenix Contact Lever-Actuated PCB Connector | Tech Specs

Phoenix Contact Lever-Actuated PCB Connector | Tech Specs

The LPC series offers a 7.62mm pitch with up to 6 positions rated at 41A and 1000V, and the LPCH series adds 6 signal contacts for up to 8A and 160V and eliminates the need for individual connectors.


new products May 09, 2019 by TTI, Inc
How Do Time of Flight Sensors (ToF) Work? A Look at ToF 3D Cameras

How Do Time of Flight Sensors (ToF) Work? A Look at ToF 3D Cameras

How do time of flight sensors determine distances? Learn more about ToF cameras using an example 3D camera.


Analog Devices Inc. ADHV4702-1 HS Precision Amplifiers | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices Inc. ADHV4702-1 HS Precision Amplifiers | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices’ ADHV4702-1 is a high voltage, unity-gain stable precision operational amplifier that is designed for a wide range of applications.


Samtec mPower 2mm UMPT/UMPS Ultra Micro Power Connectors | New Product Brief

Samtec mPower 2mm UMPT/UMPS Ultra Micro Power Connectors | New Product Brief

Samtec mPower™ 2mm Ultra Micro-Power Terminal and Ultra Micro-Power Socket Power Connectors are a flexible high power solution for power-only or signal and power applications.


Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

In this article, we explain how the use of open-source functional simulators like Antmicro’s Renode can be an integral part of hardware-software co-design efforts.


Cinch Connectivity Solutions Solderless Stacking Connectors | New Product Brief

Cinch Connectivity Solutions Solderless Stacking Connectors | New Product Brief

Cinch CIN::APSE Solderless Stacking Connectors use an innovative z-axis compression contact that provides excellent mechanical and electrical performance.


The Arm Architecture Explained

The Arm Architecture Explained

Learn more about the Arm computer architecture, including ISA, execution states, and processor families.


Apple Cancels AirPower Program Just as the Wireless Charging Power Application Heats Up

Apple Cancels AirPower Program Just as the Wireless Charging Power Application Heats Up

Apple pulls its wireless charging platform as the application gets more chip-level hardware. What gives?


News Apr 09, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
How to Choose Microcontroller Peripherals for Digital Signal Processing Applications

How to Choose Microcontroller Peripherals for Digital Signal Processing Applications

This article continues a discussion of microcontroller features and characteristics that are particularly important when you’re thinking in terms of DSP capabilities.


InnoMux Chipset from Power Integrations Reaches 91% Efficiency

InnoMux Chipset from Power Integrations Reaches 91% Efficiency

Single-stage architecture provides independently-regulated constant voltage and constant current outputs.


News Apr 08, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
STMicroelectronics Announces Power-over-Ethernet Chipset for 5G and Smart-Building Applications

STMicroelectronics Announces Power-over-Ethernet Chipset for 5G and Smart-Building Applications

The chipset utilizes the latest IEEE 802.3bt Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) specification for powered devices.


News Apr 05, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Keeping RISC-V-Based Embedded System Design Flexible with Linux and Zephyr microPlatforms

Keeping RISC-V-Based Embedded System Design Flexible with Linux and Zephyr microPlatforms

This article discusses Foundries.io's microPlatforms which support Intel, Arm, and RISC-V architectures and are designed to avoid lock-in to specific hardware implementations.


UnitedSiC Announces SiC JFET Family for Low Power AC-DC Flyback Converters

UnitedSiC Announces SiC JFET Family for Low Power AC-DC Flyback Converters

These normally-ON devices are well-suited to form the nucleus of cascode-based 20-100 Watt flyback products.


News Mar 28, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Running Hard Real-Time Applications and Linux on PolarFire SoC

Running Hard Real-Time Applications and Linux on PolarFire SoC

This article discusses the RISC-V-based SoC FPGA architecture for PolarFire SoC, which allows hard real-time applications and Linux applications to coexist.


What Is a Microcontroller? The Defining Characteristics and Architecture of a Common Component

What Is a Microcontroller? The Defining Characteristics and Architecture of a Common Component

In this article we’ll look at the defining characteristics of these extremely popular ICs, and then we’ll explore the internal architecture.


Silanna Touts Efficiency and Ease of Design with World’s First Active Clamp Flyback Controller

Silanna Touts Efficiency and Ease of Design with World’s First Active Clamp Flyback Controller

Silanna announces an active clamp flyback controller with built-in UHV components for AC/DC power adapters.


News Mar 20, 2019 by Baker Lawley
How Data-Centric Applications Can Capitalize on RISC-V Processor Innovation

How Data-Centric Applications Can Capitalize on RISC-V Processor Innovation

This article explores how RISC-V, combined with open-source collaboration and standards, is enabling innovation and purpose-built technologies among software engineers, system architects, CTOs, and board designers. It also touches on the possible impact that RISC-V and open source trends could have on the future of data-centric application experiences.


How to Utilize the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM

How to Utilize the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM

Part 3 of this series shows examples of the CKB-VM, a RISC-V instruction set based VM, in action in three different ways.