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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
Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

The company has rolled out its Allegro X AI technology, designed to automate PCB placement and routing—claiming to enable 10x shorter turnaround times.


News Apr 07, 2023 by Jeff Child
Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis Is Bringing the Magic of AI To Chip Design

Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis Is Bringing the Magic of AI To Chip Design

Stelios Diamantidis, a Distinguished Architect at Synopsys, is leading efforts to apply artificial intelligence to integrated circuit design and optimization of the next generation of CPUs, GPUs, and memories.


Synopsys Debuts Full-stack AI-based EDA Tool Suite for IC Engineers

Synopsys Debuts Full-stack AI-based EDA Tool Suite for IC Engineers

At today’s Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) event, Synopsys has unveiled a full-stack suite of AI-based EDA tools.


News Mar 29, 2023 by Jeff Child
New Engineering Tools Smooth Hardware Design for IoT & Quantum Ecosystems

New Engineering Tools Smooth Hardware Design for IoT & Quantum Ecosystems

Leveraging advanced AI-based software, several new EDA and engineering tool platforms are helping engineers design and validate prototypes faster and easier than ever before.


News Mar 23, 2023 by Darshil Patel
PCB Stackup Basics and Using Fusion 360’s Stackup Manager

PCB Stackup Basics and Using Fusion 360’s Stackup Manager

The way your PCB’s layers are arranged has huge implications for the board’s efficiency. Learn the basics of PCB stackups, and how Fusion 360’s stackup tool helps manage your PCB’s layering strategy.


Exclusive—Flux Ascends Out of Beta With Its Collaborative PCB Design Tool

Exclusive—Flux Ascends Out of Beta With Its Collaborative PCB Design Tool

On a mission to take the “hard” out of hardware design, today Flux is officially launching its namesake online PCB design tool.


News Feb 22, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Littelfuse Xtreme Varistor Radial Leaded Varistors | Tech Explainer

Littelfuse Xtreme Varistor Radial Leaded Varistors | Tech Explainer

This Tech Explainer is part of a video series that details specific products and technologies and their applications.


Improve Signal Integrity by Reducing PCB Trace Impedance Variation

Improve Signal Integrity by Reducing PCB Trace Impedance Variation

Achieving better signal integrity in a PCB design can be a challenge. Learn how PCB trace impedance variation plays a role, and how advanced tools can help smooth the way.


Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

With products built on some of the most advanced semiconductor fab processes—like TSMC’s 7 nm node—fabless FPGA/eFPGA providers are rolling out new updated open-source tools, new devices, and new IP.


News Feb 08, 2023 by Jeff Child