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Qorvo Releases Free Circuit Simulation Software, QSPICE

Qorvo Releases Free Circuit Simulation Software, QSPICE

Built with power and analog engineers in mind, Qorvo's new QSPICE software shrinks overall runtimes and offers a reported 100% completion rate.


News Jul 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Design of an Unweighted Audio Filter with Flat Frequency Response

Design of an Unweighted Audio Filter with Flat Frequency Response

This article presents the design of an unweighted (Z-weighted) audio filter with a flat frequency response from 20 Hz to 20 kHz for the measurement of audio noise.


Projects Jul 23, 2023 by John Woodgate
At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

A slew of new electronic design automation (EDA) tools and resources for IC design and verification were debuted at last week’s DAC 2023 event. Here’s a sampling.


News Jul 17, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Siemens Cuts Down IC Development Time With New EDA Tool

Siemens Cuts Down IC Development Time With New EDA Tool

At DAC this week, Siemens is rolling out an IC design tool suite that it claims enables “correct-by-construction” design changes earlier in the cycle.


News Jul 10, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Transistor Controlled Switching of an LED Display: A Radio Shack Classics Circuit Remix

Transistor Controlled Switching of an LED Display: A Radio Shack Classics Circuit Remix

Let’s modernize a circuit from a Science Fair 150-in-1 Electronic Project kit using a solderless breadboard, new electronic components, online EDA tools, and an M5Stack Core microcontroller.


Projects Jul 09, 2023 by Don Wilcher
PHOENIX CONTACT CAPAROC Circuit Breaker System | New Product Brief

PHOENIX CONTACT CAPAROC Circuit Breaker System | New Product Brief

The Phoenix Contact CAPAROC Circuit Breaker System provides a highly customizable and advanced solution for overcurrent protection in 12 to 24 Volt applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Samsung Foundry Solidifies Partnerships With Major EDA Companies

Samsung Foundry Solidifies Partnerships With Major EDA Companies

At this year’s Samsung Foundry Forum, the company revealed how it is strengthening ties with Synopsys, Cadence, and Ansys.


News Jul 03, 2023 by Jake Hertz
AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

The company positions the new chiplet-based SoC as well suited for todays’ ever more complex chip designs.


News Jun 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
An RMS Detector for a Wideband Voltmeter—Design and Operation

An RMS Detector for a Wideband Voltmeter—Design and Operation

This project demonstrates the design and operation of a root-mean-squared (RMS) detector for inclusion in a wideband voltmeter. The RMS detector is useful for measuring certain signal types, including noise, since it provides an indication of the energy in a signal.


Projects Jun 25, 2023 by John Woodgate
Exploring Output Ripple in a Negative Voltage Charge Pump Using LTspice

Exploring Output Ripple in a Negative Voltage Charge Pump Using LTspice

In this article, we’ll use LTspice simulations to more thoroughly understand output-voltage ripple and consider techniques for mitigating it within a charge pump circuit.


Analyzing Oscillator Frequency in an LTspice Negative Voltage Charge Pump

Analyzing Oscillator Frequency in an LTspice Negative Voltage Charge Pump

Continuing our in-depth look at a simple SPICE circuit that can generate a negative supply voltage, we’ll consider the effect of oscillator frequency on the system’s performance parameters.


Exclusive Interview: NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor From Scratch

Exclusive Interview: NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor From Scratch

Using plain English—not a hardware definition language—a group of researchers used generative AI to successfully design a microprocessor.


News Jun 16, 2023 by Jake Hertz
VC-Backed Hardware Design Collaboration is the (All) Spice of Life

VC-Backed Hardware Design Collaboration is the (All) Spice of Life

What happens when you mix a venture capitalist with a background in hardware development at Apple with two engineers with Harvard MBAs? Allspice: a Git-style collaboration environment that brings software best practices to hardware design.


Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

The company’s new automated impedance control feature aims to make high-speed design accessible for engineers of all levels.


News May 25, 2023 by Jeff Child
Nexperia Reimagines Component Sourcing With Interactive Datasheets

Nexperia Reimagines Component Sourcing With Interactive Datasheets

The new Interactive Datasheets tool may drastically change the way engineers select parts and interact with documentation.


News May 11, 2023 by Jake Hertz
TSMC Teams Up With EDA Companies to Speed Up Design Flows

TSMC Teams Up With EDA Companies to Speed Up Design Flows

With the rollout of new processing tech, TSMC is now teaming up with a number of prominent EDA and verification companies to accelerate design flows.


News May 03, 2023 by Chantelle Dubois
Burning Man Maker, Music Mogul, and PCB Revolutionary—Flux CEO Matthias Wagner

Burning Man Maker, Music Mogul, and PCB Revolutionary—Flux CEO Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner, co-founder and CEO of Flux, has had one of the most unusual and interesting career paths. And now, he is inviting Moore’s Lobby listeners to come use Flux as they try to make the PCB design “tool of your dreams.”


Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux is launching an integrated AI-powered “chatbot-like” design assistant that’s integrated into its web-based online PCB design tool.


News Apr 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
From Apple to OpenLight: Silicon Photonics and Integrated Lasers with Dr. Tom Mader

From Apple to OpenLight: Silicon Photonics and Integrated Lasers with Dr. Tom Mader

Dr. Tom Mader is the COO of OpenLight where they are developing an open-foundry ecosystem for silicon photonics with integrated lasers to enable advances in datacom, LiDAR, high-performance computing, AI, and even optical computing.


MIT Crafts Tool to Easily Debug Domain-specific Programming Languages

MIT Crafts Tool to Easily Debug Domain-specific Programming Languages

A team at MIT recently set out to remedy the Achilles heel of domain-specific programming languages: debugging.


News Apr 13, 2023 by Jake Hertz