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Simulating the Short-Circuit Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

Simulating the Short-Circuit Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

Current briefly flows through both transistors during logic-level transitions. This article explores the resulting power dissipation and provides some helpful LTspice tips for measuring current and power.


Swiss Startup Sets Out to Develop the World’s First Living Processor

Swiss Startup Sets Out to Develop the World’s First Living Processor

FinalSpark has unveiled Neuroplatform, a pioneering approach to "bioprocessing" with wetware computing and organoid intelligence.


News May 24, 2024 by Lisa Boneta.
Can Silicon Photonics Solve the Bandwidth Bottleneck in AI Data Centers?

Can Silicon Photonics Solve the Bandwidth Bottleneck in AI Data Centers?

Lightmatter aims to use light to solve two major electrical challenges in AI computing with active optical interposers designed to resolve those pesky bandwidth bottlenecks and the "world’s first" photonic computing platform for more power-efficient matrix calculations.


Trillium: Google’s TPU Powerhouse Behind Its New AI Models

Trillium: Google’s TPU Powerhouse Behind Its New AI Models

Google's sixth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) stole the company's I/O developer conference stage with its higher-than-ever computing performance.


News May 20, 2024 by Lisa Boneta.
ADVANTECH ECU 150 High Performance Quad Core IoT Gateway | New Product Brief

ADVANTECH ECU 150 High Performance Quad Core IoT Gateway | New Product Brief

Advantech ECU-150 High Performance Quad Core IoT Gateway, powered by an NXP i.MX8M Quad Core Cortex A53 1.3G CPU, is designed for versatile IoT applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Simulating the Switching Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

Simulating the Switching Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

When a CMOS inverter switches logic states, power is consumed due to its charging and discharging currents. Learn how to simulate these currents in LTspice.


AMD Quietly Drops New Ryzen Processors Without Integrated Graphics

AMD Quietly Drops New Ryzen Processors Without Integrated Graphics

Amid market trends toward higher integration, AMD has released two new processors that strip things back.


News May 16, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

Power Dissipation of a CMOS Inverter

This article explains dynamic and static power consumption in a CMOS inverter circuit.


RISC-V Chip Combines CPU, GPU, and NPU Into One Core

RISC-V Chip Combines CPU, GPU, and NPU Into One Core

X-Silicon aims to address the current limitations of edge computing with its new low-power “C-GPU” architecture.


News May 14, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Mindgrove Brings First Indigenously-Designed RISC-V MCU to India

Mindgrove Brings First Indigenously-Designed RISC-V MCU to India

The new RISC-V-based SoC is the first microprocessor owned, designed, and marketed entirely from India to the open market.


News May 13, 2024 by Jake Hertz
The Ripple Effects of Robert H. Dennard, Inventor of DRAM and Dennard Scaling

The Ripple Effects of Robert H. Dennard, Inventor of DRAM and Dennard Scaling

Dr. Robert Dennard passed away last month. He dedicated more than half a century of his professional life to microelectronics research, resulting in pivotal MOSFET scaling equations and DRAM.


News May 13, 2024 by Robert Keim
New MediaTek SoC Speeds Up Generative AI Processing at the Edge

New MediaTek SoC Speeds Up Generative AI Processing at the Edge

The new flagship smartphone SoC takes an unconventional approach to on-device generative AI and gaming with MediaTek's “All-Big-Core” architecture.


News May 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Apple’s New M4 Processor: An ‘Outrageously Powerful’ Device for AI

Apple’s New M4 Processor: An ‘Outrageously Powerful’ Device for AI

The new SoC leverages 28 billion transistors to make the new iPad Pro "the most powerful device of its kind."


News May 08, 2024 by Jake Hertz
An Explanation of Undervoltage Lockout

An Explanation of Undervoltage Lockout

Learn how undervoltage lockout (UVLO) can protect semiconductor devices and electronic systems from potentially hazardous operation.


Nuvoton Pursues the Industrial Edge With New MPUs

Nuvoton Pursues the Industrial Edge With New MPUs

The new Arm 32/64-bit industrial microprocessors hit on computing performance, expansive connectivity, and tight security.


News May 01, 2024 by Duane Benson
The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

Two years short of the Z80's 50th birthday, Zilog has called it curtains on the 8-bit MPU. What legacy does this microprocessor leave behind?


News Apr 30, 2024 by Duane Benson
Meta’s New Large-Language Model to Run on Intel and Qualcomm Hardware

Meta’s New Large-Language Model to Run on Intel and Qualcomm Hardware

The open-source large-language model will soon be available on major hardware platforms.


News Apr 25, 2024 by Duane Benson
Cooperation and Competition Behind the Scenes in the RISC-V Community

Cooperation and Competition Behind the Scenes in the RISC-V Community

RISC-V “is changing the way people build every single computer,” says Mark Himelstein, the former CTO at RISC-V International. He joins us to explain the significance of the RISC-V ISA, open standard development challenges, and read poetry.


Innovation Shined at Embedded World 2024

Innovation Shined at Embedded World 2024

Enjoy this taste of the rich collection of technology news from last week’s Embedded World trade show in Nuremberg, Germany.


News Apr 20, 2024 by Jeff Child
Sense, Process, Connect: Synaptics Launches SoCs and Dev Kit for Edge AI

Sense, Process, Connect: Synaptics Launches SoCs and Dev Kit for Edge AI

Synaptics' new SoCs and dev kit bring "out-of-the-box" embedded AI to any product, independent of the data center.


News Apr 19, 2024 by Jake Hertz