Electrical Engineering & Electronics News

Historical Engineers: Richard Morley and the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Richard Morley is credited as the person who helped modernize industrial facilities with the invention of the programmable logic controller. Learn about his career, accomplishments, and contributions to the field....

about 18 hours ago by Gary Elinoff

Engineering Spotlight: Todd Ouska, wolfSSL’s Chief Technology Officer, on TLS 1.3

The importance of security in embedded systems is growing, making wolfSSL's Todd Ouska’s line of work a hot topic. AAC’s Chantelle Dubois had a chance to speak with him about his career and...

3 days ago by Chantelle Dubois

News Brief: Microchip Releases AVR-IoT WG Development Board

Creating IoT projects can be an exhaustive process involving RTOS and complex frameworks. Yesterday, Microchip announced an IoT development board that aims to streamline IoT device...

4 days ago by Robin Mitchell

Swarm Communications and CubeSats: An Update on the Advantages and Challenges of Nanosatellites

Light, inexpensive and easy to launch and replace, nanosatellites are tiny space vehicles that are becoming ever more mainstream, presenting novel advancements and unique challenges....

5 days ago by Gary Elinoff

A Slow-Roll Revolution? Graphene Research Yields New Biosensors, UAV “Skins”, and Molecular Filters

Graphene has been considered a "material of the future" for decades. Continuing research efforts across several industries continue to yield promising results, including graphene biosensors....

October 09, 2018 by Gary Elinoff

The Location Awareness Engine and Hardware Behind Nanotron’s Real-Time Location System Tracking

Tracking via a real-time location system (RTLS) has proven important for a variety of industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, traffic management, healthcare, and general location...

October 08, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

A Look at Chirp’s Range and Presence Sensing MEMS Time-of-Flight Ultrasonic Sensors

What do you get when you combine an ultrasonic transducer with micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) machining?

October 04, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

Altium Announces New Cloud-Based Design Environment with Eye Towards Collaboration: Altium 365

Altium today announced Altium 365, a cloud-based design platform intended to bring manufacturing and sourcing into a hardware design environment....

October 04, 2018 by Mark Hughes

Mayo Clinic Demonstrates Ability of Implantable Device to Help Paralyzed Man Walk Again

Implantable electronic devices have shown promise in helping medical patients regain functionality in various limbs after paralysis injuries. Last week, the Mayo Clinic announced that one such...

October 03, 2018 by David Jones

ROSCon2018: ROS 2, Autonomous Vehicles, and ROS’s Availability on Windows

Here’s a brief summary of a few sessions that touched on ROS being used in autonomous vehicles, the development of ROS 2, and the ROS’s recent availability on the Windows platform....

October 02, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

Maxim Integrated Releases Development Platform for Biometrics Monitoring in Health Applications

Maxim Integrated just announced the second generation of its Health Sensor Platform, a development platform for designing wearable devices for remote biometric monitoring....

September 26, 2018 by Gary Elinoff

Competition for 7 nm Chips: Intel, AMD, and the Shift of Chip Manufacturing to TSMC

Intel Corporation is reportedly outsourcing some of its 14 nm chipset capacity to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., as its ability to meet production demands has run into headwinds in...

September 26, 2018 by David Jones

Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Field Sensors: Applications for TMR Sensors

What are TMR sensors and what applications are they best suited to? This article provides a snapshot of this sensor type and what TMR-based components are available for designers....

September 24, 2018 by Kate Smith

Raytheon’s New GPS OCX (Operational Control System) to Enable Era of Next-Gen Satellites

The newest GPS satellites require an upgraded control segment for launch and control. Scheduled to launch in late 2018, the GPS III satellites need OCX. Let's take a look at what the OCX...

September 19, 2018 by Marie Christiano

Engineer Spotlight: Brian Douglas of Control Systems Lectures on Education in the Age of YouTube

Engineering education, like everything else, is increasingly moving online. In this Engineer Spotlight, AAC's Hana Othman spoke with control systems engineer Brian Douglas about control...

September 18, 2018 by Hana Othman

New EE Majors, New Engineering Degrees: Interdisciplinary, Digital, and Microdegrees in 2018

Here are a few ways in which the future of education and training may look different for future engineers.

September 17, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

AR/VR Display Technology Roundup: OLEDs, GaN-on-Silicon, and Foveated Rendering

Here’s a snapshot of where our display technology is at right now—and a little bit of what is just around the corner.

September 13, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN)....

September 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

The Power of Transistor Density: A Look at AMD, Intel, and How Moore’s Law Is Affecting the Market

While chip company business dealings and endless research into nanometer transistors can sometimes seem worlds apart, here are some consequences of how engineers' battle with Moore's Law...

September 11, 2018 by David Jones

What You Need to Know About the TLS 1.3 Protocol and wolfSSL’s SSL/TLS Libraries

Security protocols, like communication protocols, are currently in competition to set industry-wide standards. What is the TLS 1.3 protocol? How does this security protocol differ from SSL?...

September 10, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois