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Honda and Verizon Put 5G on Wheels With Mobile Edge Computing

Honda and Verizon Put 5G on Wheels With Mobile Edge Computing

When it comes to vehicle safety, processing latency can be a matter of life and death. Honda and Verizon are now remixing edge computing technology for the road.


News Apr 19, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar
Cadence’s Recent Acquisitions Reveal Focus on Computational Fluid Dynamics

Cadence’s Recent Acquisitions Reveal Focus on Computational Fluid Dynamics

This year alone, Cadence has acquired both Pointwise and NUMECA, two companies specializing in multi-physics simulations and specifically computational fluid dynamics. How might this focus reflect Cadence's EDA strategy?


News Apr 18, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Silicon Photonics May Remedy the Interconnect Bottlenecks of Moore’s Law

Silicon Photonics May Remedy the Interconnect Bottlenecks of Moore’s Law

As interconnects become an increasingly challenging system bottleneck, some researchers—and even larger corporations like Intel—believe silicon photonics to be a light at the end of the tunnel.


News Apr 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz
x86, Arm, and the Reach for Computing Supremacy

x86, Arm, and the Reach for Computing Supremacy

Intel has released a new processor for data center applications. How does this new x86 processor look compared to other processor advancements?


News Apr 16, 2021 by Rushi Patel
NVIDIA Scales the Cloud With a Reimagined Data Processing Unit (DPU)

NVIDIA Scales the Cloud With a Reimagined Data Processing Unit (DPU)

With its newest iteration of BlueField DPU technology, NVIDIA is reworking a new processing unit to support mountainous AI workloads.


News Apr 16, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
ADI’s RF Platform Hunkers Down on Phase Determinism for Defense Communication

ADI’s RF Platform Hunkers Down on Phase Determinism for Defense Communication

A new reference design from ADI appeals to electronic warfare applications, aerospace radar, and advanced commercial radio.


News Apr 16, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
TDK Sensor Shows How Capacitive MEMS and Low-power IoT Go Hand in Hand

TDK Sensor Shows How Capacitive MEMS and Low-power IoT Go Hand in Hand

TDK recently announced the so-called "lowest power waterproof MEMS barometric pressure sensor." Why did TDK choose capacitive MEMS as the go-to architecture for low power?


News Apr 15, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Why Physical Verification Is Only Getting Tougher With Advanced Nodes

Why Physical Verification Is Only Getting Tougher With Advanced Nodes

In the nanometer era, IC complexity grows faster than die areas. EDA companies are stepping up with tools to streamline physical verification.


As Air Quality Falls, Air Pollution Sensors Are on the Rise

As Air Quality Falls, Air Pollution Sensors Are on the Rise

With air quality becoming a larger concern, could personalized air quality sensors become the next way to measure local pollution?


News Apr 14, 2021 by Luke James
Reevaluating the Toxicity of Semiconductor Manufacturing

Reevaluating the Toxicity of Semiconductor Manufacturing

The safety of semiconductor manufacturing employees is a top priority. Still, these facilities handle toxic materials that can pose a hazard to human health.


News Apr 13, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
NVIDIA Makes Its Foray Into the Data Center CPU Market

NVIDIA Makes Its Foray Into the Data Center CPU Market

NVIDIA entered a new marketplace yesterday with the release of NVIDIA Grace: its first data center CPU—and a possible counterpart to Intel's CPUs.


News Apr 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz
u-blox’s Key to Centimeter-level GNSS Precision? “Real-time Kinematic Corrections”

u-blox’s Key to Centimeter-level GNSS Precision? “Real-time Kinematic Corrections”

ArduSimple and u-blox are teaming up with a module and single-board computer for real-time kinematic calculations. The result, they claim, is accurate m^-2 GPS measurements.


News Apr 12, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Microsoft Brings the Sea to Servers With Two-phase Immersion Cooling

Microsoft Brings the Sea to Servers With Two-phase Immersion Cooling

Microsoft has announced that it will be the first cloud provider to implement two-phase liquid immersion cooling in a production environment.


News Apr 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz
How SpaceX’s Starlink Project Seeks to Bridge the “Digital Divide”

How SpaceX’s Starlink Project Seeks to Bridge the “Digital Divide”

Despite the essential role the internet now plays across the globe, it’s still out of reach to a huge number of people worldwide, including in the U.S. What is Starlink doing to bridge this so-called “digital divide?" 


News Apr 10, 2021 by Luke James
Shrinking the World: Marconi’s Revolution in Wireless Telegraphy

Shrinking the World: Marconi’s Revolution in Wireless Telegraphy

From the Titanic's communication system to the Pope's summer telephone, Guglielmo Marconi's revolutionary advances in wireless radiography helped to establish a more connected world.


News Apr 09, 2021 by Kimber Wymore
Optical MEMS Micromirrors Could Be a Driving Force in “Smart Glass”

Optical MEMS Micromirrors Could Be a Driving Force in “Smart Glass”

New research proposes a smart glass technology that could save energy in buildings by up to 35%.


News Apr 09, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Tech Giants Enter Their Chips in the Race for Self-driving Cars

Tech Giants Enter Their Chips in the Race for Self-driving Cars

ADAS innovation happens at the chip level. Here are the big-name players honing in on autonomous SoCs to advance the possibility of self-driving cars.


News Apr 08, 2021 by Luke James
What’s Trending in Memory Technology in 2021?

What’s Trending in Memory Technology in 2021?

While fabrication grounds to a halt and the electronics supply chain shutters, chip manufacturers and researchers are still hard at work developing better memory technology for enhanced compute potential.


News Apr 08, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Understanding the New Offshore Wind Farms Initiative

Understanding the New Offshore Wind Farms Initiative

An ambitious $3 billion plan may greatly expand American wind-farm output to 30 GW by 2030. What details of this plan might involve engineers and the renewables market at large?


News Apr 07, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
TI Claims an Industry First—a DC/DC Controller With an Integrated Active EMI Filter

TI Claims an Industry First—a DC/DC Controller With an Integrated Active EMI Filter

All About Circuits sat down with Texas Instruments to hear firsthand about the company's efforts to help engineers achieve low-EMI power designs—without compromising size or performance.


News Apr 07, 2021 by Jake Hertz