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Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles: Interview with Tactile Mobility CEO Amit Nisenbaum

Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles: Interview with Tactile Mobility CEO Amit Nisenbaum

An interview with Amit Nisenbaum, CEO of Tactile Mobility, a company that achieves software sensor fusion to make sensor data useful for autonomous vehicles.


News Jan 17, 2019 by Mark Hughes
How to Characterize Noise in a Custom PCB: Precision Inclinometer

How to Characterize Noise in a Custom PCB: Precision Inclinometer

Learn about the process of identifying and eliminating noise in data capture.


How to Program an MSP430 Microcontroller to Gather Data from an Inclinometer

How to Program an MSP430 Microcontroller to Gather Data from an Inclinometer

This article goes over the design of firmware for a custom PCB project: a precision inclinometer subsystem.


Google ATAP Moves Forward with Radar Touch Tech with FCC Waiver

Google ATAP Moves Forward with Radar Touch Tech with FCC Waiver

This waiver is significant because it will allow Google to take the next step in making their radar based touch interface technology a reality.


News Jan 11, 2019 by Chantelle Dubois
Describing Combinational Circuits in Verilog

Describing Combinational Circuits in Verilog

This article introduces the techniques for describing combinational circuits in Verilog by examining how to use the conditional operator to describe combinational truth tables.


Getting Started with the Verilog Hardware Description Language

Getting Started with the Verilog Hardware Description Language

In this article, we’ll study the basic structure of a Verilog module, look at some examples of using the Verilog “wire” data type and its vector form, and briefly touch on some differences between VHDL and Verilog.


Digital Design with Pass-Transistor Logic

Digital Design with Pass-Transistor Logic

This article presents efficient, pass-transistor-based implementations of important digital functionality.


Western Digital SweRVs Towards Open Source with New RISC-V Core, ISS, and Cache Coherency

Western Digital SweRVs Towards Open Source with New RISC-V Core, ISS, and Cache Coherency

Is open source changing the way we manage data? Western Digital, a data storage device company, switched to RISC-V's open-source ISA (instruction set architecture) a year ago. This month, they announced a series of open-source, collaborative initiatives that aim to make data more open, from processor cores to memory caches.


News Dec 18, 2018 by Kate Smith
Introduction to Pass-Transistor Logic

Introduction to Pass-Transistor Logic

This article explores an alternative, and in some cases advantageous, approach to MOSFET-based implementation of digital logic functions.


Managing USB Type-C Power: A New USB Power Delivery Controller for Sink Devices from STMicro

Managing USB Type-C Power: A New USB Power Delivery Controller for Sink Devices from STMicro

This article takes a look at STUSB4500 which is a standalone USB Power Delivery controller from STMicroelectronics.


News Dec 17, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

Want to get to-the-minute, location-specific weather information delivered right to your own Adafruit IO dashboard? It's time to assemble your very own SmartBrella.


Projects Dec 13, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

This introductory article will look at some of the most important features of the USB-C standard.


Clock Signals in FPGA Design: Data Path Maximal Clock Rates and the Xilinx PERIOD Timing Constraint

Clock Signals in FPGA Design: Data Path Maximal Clock Rates and the Xilinx PERIOD Timing Constraint

This article will discuss the Xilinx Period timing constraint that allows us to describe the characteristics of the clock signal that will be used with an FPGA design.


Embedded System Design: Build from Scratch or Use an SBC?

Embedded System Design: Build from Scratch or Use an SBC?

This article explores the pros and cons of either designing embedded systems from scratch or utilizing pre-made single-board computers.


Understanding Bandwidth in Communications and Computing

Understanding Bandwidth in Communications and Computing

This article discusses how to interpret and specify bandwidth in systems that involve data transmission and digital processing.


Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

This article explores the pros and cons of connectivity options for IoT edge device design.


Harting ix Industrial Ethernet Interface | New Product Brief

Harting ix Industrial Ethernet Interface | New Product Brief

Harting ix Industrial is a smaller, more robust interface for Ethernet and other high-speed interfaces.


Digi International TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router | New Product Brief

Digi International TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router | New Product Brief

Digi International’s TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router is designed to meet the physical and functional demands of transportation and mobile environments.


Coilcraft 0805HP Ceramic Wire-Wound Chip Inductors | New Product Brief

Coilcraft 0805HP Ceramic Wire-Wound Chip Inductors | New Product Brief

Coilcraft 0805HP series ceramic wire-wound chip inductors are ideal for high frequency and high current applications.


Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS | Featured Product Spotlight

Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS | Featured Product Spotlight

Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS is an intelligent, networked, DIN rail UPS for industrial networks.