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A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s mirror may get the headlines, but its detector chips, photon-counting cameras, and downlink amplifier tell the electronics story.


News 4 hours ago by Robert Martin
The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

An LED facing a phototransistor inside a 6-pin package became the default way to pass a signal across a barrier while blocking everything else.


News Aug 28, 2026 by Luke James
Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

The new PolarFire FPGA-powered board from Microchip brings multiple sensors to Nvidia edge AI platforms.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Duane Benson
Three Research Teams Take Different Routes to Control Light

Three Research Teams Take Different Routes to Control Light

Papers from École Polytechnique, Seoul National University, and Harvard tackle optical gain, on-chip buffering, and component footprint.


News Aug 20, 2026 by Luke James
Fast, Clear, Low-Power Vision with onsemi AR0145CS Hyperlux™ SG | Tech Guide

Fast, Clear, Low-Power Vision with onsemi AR0145CS Hyperlux™ SG | Tech Guide

In this Tech Guide, explore how the onsemi AR0145CS Hyperlux™ SG Image Sensors deliver fast, clear, low-power vision with global shutter technology, 120 fps performance, and compact design for industrial automation, robotics, drones, AR/VR, and embedded imaging systems. Watch now to get started!


Efinix Seeks to Overcome Edge AI Constraints With New FPGA Family

Efinix Seeks to Overcome Edge AI Constraints With New FPGA Family

The Titanium Edge FPGA family targets constrained edge AI with 50% lower power, compact SiP packages, high-speed MIPI I/O, and robust security/reliability features for intelligent systems.


News Jul 14, 2026 by Austin Futrell
Analog Devices EVAL-ADMX6001 Evaluation Board (ADMX6001-EBZ) | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices EVAL-ADMX6001 Evaluation Board (ADMX6001-EBZ) | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices EVAL-ADMX6001 Evaluation Board (ADMX6001-EBZ) is a high-performance reference platform for evaluating ultra-wideband, low-noise data acquisition systems. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Indie Launches Edge AI SoC for Perception Systems in Autos and Robots

Indie Launches Edge AI SoC for Perception Systems in Autos and Robots

The new system-on-chip pairs a heterogeneous AI compute engine with a low-latency multi-camera image signal processor, and can ship pre-integrated with emotion3D perception software.


News Jun 29, 2026 by Luke James
Gigadevice Unveils Pair of MCUs Tailored Specifically for Optical Modules

Gigadevice Unveils Pair of MCUs Tailored Specifically for Optical Modules

The 120 MHz GD32E512 is optimized for high-speed optical modules and the 72 MHz GD32E252 takes on low-speed optical modules.


News Jun 26, 2026 by Duane Benson
3 Pocket-Sized Photonics Innovations Power MedTech to Atomic Clocks

3 Pocket-Sized Photonics Innovations Power MedTech to Atomic Clocks

Research teams at EPFL, Harvard, and UC San Diego each reported photonic devices that shrink or repurpose light-based hardware.


News Jun 22, 2026 by Luke James
Breaking AI Bottlenecks: 3 Startups Look Beyond the Chip

Breaking AI Bottlenecks: 3 Startups Look Beyond the Chip

Lotus Microsystems, Oriole Networks, and Atomera have each rolled out technologies tackling the physical limits slowing AI infrastructure.


News Jun 18, 2026 by Luke James
France’s Drive to Rebuild a Native Semiconductor Industry

France’s Drive to Rebuild a Native Semiconductor Industry

France’s Électronique 2030 program commits €5B+ to revitalize its semiconductor industry. Learn the details of this ambitious effort, and the market challenges it’s facing.


News Jun 11, 2026 by Gordon Feller
The Kilo Lamp: An Interactive Lamp Controller

The Kilo Lamp: An Interactive Lamp Controller

This project brief provides the instructions for building a weight-sensitive LED lamp with an Arduino Uno and a handful of commercially available parts.


Bending Light: How Optics Research Is Rewriting the Rules of Computing

Bending Light: How Optics Research Is Rewriting the Rules of Computing

Recent advances in photonics may boost the performance of LiDAR sensors, increase the resolution of image projection, and integrate energy harvesting and light emission into a single display.


News Jun 02, 2026 by Duane Benson
Light Speed: How Integrated Photonics Is Solving AI’s Interconnect Crisis

Light Speed: How Integrated Photonics Is Solving AI’s Interconnect Crisis

The bottleneck limiting the next generation of artificial intelligence isn't compute power—it's the wire connecting the chips. French startup Scintil Photonics thinks it has the answer.


News May 29, 2026 by Gordon Feller
Optical Brain Research Pushes Smaller Implants, Sharper Imaging

Optical Brain Research Pushes Smaller Implants, Sharper Imaging

Cornell, MIT, and HKUST teams have reported laser- and photonics-based devices that record neurons, image deeper, and tame crosstalk in all-optical neuroscience.


News May 08, 2026 by Luke James
TDK Unwraps Software Tools for Sensor Data and IMU Evaluation

TDK Unwraps Software Tools for Sensor Data and IMU Evaluation

Today, the company released two new AI software products at Sensors Converge, SensorGPT, for creating sensor data at scale, and SensorStage to accelerate development workflow for the company’s latest IMUs.


News May 05, 2026 by Duane Benson
TE Connectivity Holsworthy Type 3657 Wirewound SMD Power Inductors | New Product Brief

TE Connectivity Holsworthy Type 3657 Wirewound SMD Power Inductors | New Product Brief

TE Connectivity’s Holsworthy Type 3657 Wirewound SMD Power Inductors are compact, high-efficiency components designed for modern power conversion applications. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Kingbright APGF0607G32B33R23-05 LED | New Product Brief

Kingbright APGF0607G32B33R23-05 LED | New Product Brief

Kingbright APGF0607G32B33R23-05 LED delivers high-performance, full-color illumination in an ultra-compact SMD package. Watch and learn all about their features, specs, applications, and more!


Indie Semiconductor Releases First Commercial UV DFB Laser at 399 nm

Indie Semiconductor Releases First Commercial UV DFB Laser at 399 nm

Geared for quantum systems, Indie engineered the narrow-linewidth laser engineered for ytterbium atom cooling, which eliminates the need for external optical stacks.


News Apr 14, 2026 by Luke James