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Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Decode an FSK Signal

Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Decode an FSK Signal

Learn about a DSP technique that extracts the original digital data from a demodulated frequency-shift-keying baseband signal.


American Bright IR Series | Digital Datasheet

American Bright IR Series | Digital Datasheet

American Bright offers a full line of infrared devices for analog and digital controllers.


Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

This article will review the common FPGA resources that allow us to efficiently generate and distribute clock signals throughout a system.


American Bright ezyLED | Digital Datasheet

American Bright ezyLED | Digital Datasheet

American Bright's ezyLED shrinks LED system designs by removing the need for external passives and integrates a driver IC, allowing it to be directly connected to a 12 V or 24 V supply.


Audio Processing in Scilab: How to Implement Spectrum Subtraction

Audio Processing in Scilab: How to Implement Spectrum Subtraction

This article discusses a technique in which frequency-domain subtraction is used to selectively suppress the noise components in an audio signal.


Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Remove Noise in Recordings with Audio Processing Filters

Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Remove Noise in Recordings with Audio Processing Filters

This article is an introduction to the complex topic of DSP-based reduction of noise in audio signals.


RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V is changing processor design through open source hardware. In this article, learn about some of the new uses for this technology.


New EE Majors, New Engineering Degrees: Interdisciplinary, Digital, and Microdegrees in 2018

New EE Majors, New Engineering Degrees: Interdisciplinary, Digital, and Microdegrees in 2018

Here are a few ways in which the future of education and training may look different for future engineers.


News Sep 17, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
How to Perform Frequency Modulation with a Digitized Audio Signal

How to Perform Frequency Modulation with a Digitized Audio Signal

In this article, we’ll use Scilab to create an FM waveform that carries information corresponding to an audio recording.


Maxim Integrated MAX14745 Wearable Charge-Management Solution | New Product Brief

Maxim Integrated MAX14745 Wearable Charge-Management Solution | New Product Brief

Maxim Integrated’s MAX14745 is a battery-charge management IC for low-power wearables and rechargeable IoT devices.


Why Do We Need Matched Termination with High Speed Logic Families?

Why Do We Need Matched Termination with High Speed Logic Families?

This article will try to develop a better insight into wave reflection that can occur when driving a relatively long wire with a fast logic gate.


BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN).


News Sep 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Design Implementation in the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite

Design Implementation in the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite

This article will look at the techniques that Vivado employs to accelerate design implementation.


News Sep 07, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Kalashnikov Enters the EV Market, Highlights “Revolutionary” Inverter

Kalashnikov Enters the EV Market, Highlights “Revolutionary” Inverter

What do automatic rifles and electric vehicles have in common? Kalashnikov wants to be famous for both.


News Aug 31, 2018 by David Jones
Meet WARLORD: Metawave Aims to Bring Millimeter-Wave RADAR Sensors to the Automotive Industry

Meet WARLORD: Metawave Aims to Bring Millimeter-Wave RADAR Sensors to the Automotive Industry

We've heard all about LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicle applications. But what about RADAR?


News Aug 29, 2018 by Mark Hughes
FPGA Design Software: An Overview of Time-to-Integration Features in Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite

FPGA Design Software: An Overview of Time-to-Integration Features in Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite

This article will look at some of the most important features of the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite which accelerates the "time to integration" of the design procedure.


News Aug 24, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
History of the ISA: Processors, the PowerPC, and the AIM Triple-Threat

History of the ISA: Processors, the PowerPC, and the AIM Triple-Threat

Continuing our series on the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), this week we delve into the PowerPC ISA.


News Aug 18, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Understanding Color Models Used in Digital Image Processing

Understanding Color Models Used in Digital Image Processing

Learn about digital-signal-processing concepts that help us to store and manipulate color information.


Piezoelectric Speakers and Ultrasonic Sensors Abound: A MEMS-Based Audio Roundup

Piezoelectric Speakers and Ultrasonic Sensors Abound: A MEMS-Based Audio Roundup

Sound can be used to detect objects and communicate. This roundup looks at three new MEMS-based microphones and ultrasonic sensors on display at Sensor Expo 2018.


News Aug 16, 2018 by Mark Hughes
The Electrical Engineer’s Guide to Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs)

The Electrical Engineer’s Guide to Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs)

This article explores some important details related to the design and functionality of processors.