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ON Semiconductor Class-D Audio Amplifier | New Product Brief

ON Semiconductor Class-D Audio Amplifier | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


embedded world 2020 Announces It Will Take Place As Planned Amid Coronavirus Fears

embedded world 2020 Announces It Will Take Place As Planned Amid Coronavirus Fears

All About Circuits received confirmation that a major trade show, Mobile World Congress 2020, had been axed due to coronavirus fears.


News Feb 13, 2020 by Luke James
What Is the Light Convergent Reflective Sensor on OMRON’s New Sensor Eval Board?

What Is the Light Convergent Reflective Sensor on OMRON’s New Sensor Eval Board?

Let’s take a look at the 2JCIE-EV, which comes with sample code and supports a wide variety of sensing applications.


News Feb 12, 2020 by Robert Keim
Arm Adds Machine Learning and Neural Processing IP to Its AI Platform

Arm Adds Machine Learning and Neural Processing IP to Its AI Platform

Arm’s Cortex-M55 and its Ethos-U55 NPU are designed to deliver a combined 480 x leap in machine learning performance.


News Feb 11, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Watchdog Timers in Microcontrollers

Watchdog Timers in Microcontrollers

This article is the fourth of a series on microcontroller timers which discusses internal watchdogs.


New Regulations in the UK and California Raise Stakes of IoT Security

New Regulations in the UK and California Raise Stakes of IoT Security

Government officials are proposing and ratifying laws that will push greater IoT security at the software and hardware level.


News Feb 10, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
 Real Time Clocks (RTCs) in Microcontroller Timers

Real Time Clocks (RTCs) in Microcontroller Timers

This article is the third of a series on microcontroller timers which describes the RTCs inside a microcontroller.


Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors: When Research Becomes Reality

Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors: When Research Becomes Reality

Silicon carbide and gallium nitride are gaining ground in a market that has long been dominated by silicon. What does the rise of wide-bandgap materials tell us about the relationship between research and engineering?


News Feb 07, 2020 by Robert Keim
Pulse-width Modulation (PWM) Timers in Microcontrollers

Pulse-width Modulation (PWM) Timers in Microcontrollers

This article is the second of a series on microcontroller timers. This article describes a more complex timer called the PWM or pulse-width modulation timer.


Understanding Local Minima in Neural-Network Training

Understanding Local Minima in Neural-Network Training

This article discusses a complication that can prevent your Perceptron from achieving adequate classification accuracy.


Incorporating Bias Nodes Into Your Neural Network

Incorporating Bias Nodes Into Your Neural Network

This article shows you how to add bias values to a multilayer Perceptron implemented in a high-level programming language such as Python.


STMicroelectronics Joins Global Alliance Board to Establish International IoT Standards

STMicroelectronics Joins Global Alliance Board to Establish International IoT Standards

STMicroelectronics (ST) has joined the Board of Directors of the Zigbee Alliance, a major step forward towards plans to guide the adoption and evolution of the IoT-friendly wireless standard.


News Feb 05, 2020 by Luke James
How to Increase the Accuracy of a Hidden Layer Neural Network

How to Increase the Accuracy of a Hidden Layer Neural Network

In this article, we’ll perform some classification experiments and gather data on the relationship between hidden-layer dimensionality and network performance.


Murata Debuts “World’s Smallest LoRa Module”

Murata Debuts “World’s Smallest LoRa Module”

The Type 1SJ is designed for ISM bands ranging from 868 MHz to 916 MHz, including those employed in the US, Europe, and Asia.


News Feb 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

The embedded world Conference is the world’s leading meeting place for the embedded community, and it is returning again for its 18th year.


News Feb 03, 2020 by Luke James
A Difference of Business Models: Semiconductor Companies with End-user Products

A Difference of Business Models: Semiconductor Companies with End-user Products

Some traditional semiconductor companies step into the end-user market and some do not. What companies are making this move and how does it affect the industry as a whole?


News Feb 02, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
How Many Hidden Layers and Hidden Nodes Does a Neural Network Need?

How Many Hidden Layers and Hidden Nodes Does a Neural Network Need?

This article provides guidelines for configuring the hidden portion of a multilayer Perceptron.


Four Up-and-Coming Semiconductor Start-ups are Sparking Innovation

Four Up-and-Coming Semiconductor Start-ups are Sparking Innovation

In this article, we will take a look at a few up-and-comers and discuss their promise in the silicon industry.


News Jan 31, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Training Datasets for Neural Networks: How to Train and Validate a Python Neural Network

Training Datasets for Neural Networks: How to Train and Validate a Python Neural Network

In this article, we’ll use Excel-generated samples to train a multilayer Perceptron, and then we’ll see how the network performs with validation samples.


Industry’s First Intelligent, Peer-to-Peer Cloud Computing Platform Leans on Open Hardware Security

Industry’s First Intelligent, Peer-to-Peer Cloud Computing Platform Leans on Open Hardware Security

Subutai's P2P hardware computing system is designed for many tasks, including IoT and blockchain.


News Jan 30, 2020 by Robin Mitchell