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TI Unwraps Motor Control MCUs for Cost-Sensitive, Real-Time Designs

TI Unwraps Motor Control MCUs for Cost-Sensitive, Real-Time Designs

TI designed the new devices to provide cost-effective, high-speed sensorless control to household and industrial systems.


News Oct 02, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Gives Its Major EDA Offerings a Gen-AI Facelift

Synopsys Gives Its Major EDA Offerings a Gen-AI Facelift

Synopsys recently announced expanded generative AI capabilities through offerings such as Ansys Engineering Copilot and AgentEngineer technology.


News Sep 30, 2025 by Arjun Nijhawan
At Its Innovators Day Event, Altera Unveils Expanded Agilex FPGA Portfolio

At Its Innovators Day Event, Altera Unveils Expanded Agilex FPGA Portfolio

Today, the FPGA company revealed an array of new announcements at its annual Altera Innovators Day developer conference.


News Sep 30, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Join the All About PCBs Virtual Summit, October 1st

Join the All About PCBs Virtual Summit, October 1st

Welcome to the first All About Circuits Summit Day of 2025! This guide will introduce the features of our first Wednesday schedule and help you plan your month-long participation.


News Sep 30, 2025 by Dale Wilson
Nordic Reveals High-Memory SoC Targeting Matter and USB-HID Designs

Nordic Reveals High-Memory SoC Targeting Matter and USB-HID Designs

Built on Nordic’s 22-nm technology, the latest addition to the nRF54L series promises robust communication, long battery life, and compact designs.


News Sep 29, 2025 by Luke James
Renesas Welcomes Low-Power MCUs With Capacitive Touch to RA Portfolio

Renesas Welcomes Low-Power MCUs With Capacitive Touch to RA Portfolio

The new feature makes the MCUs a fit for battery and low-power consumer electronics and industrial applications requiring capacitive touch control.


News Sep 29, 2025 by Duane Benson
Murata, Melexis, and TI Push Boundaries on Low-Power Sensing Design

Murata, Melexis, and TI Push Boundaries on Low-Power Sensing Design

New sensing solutions, from pyroelectric infrared sensors to in-plane Hall-effect switches, help engineers improve performance and efficiency in space-constrained designs.


News Sep 26, 2025 by Jake Hertz
The Motorola 68000: A 32-Bit Brain in a 16-Bit Body

The Motorola 68000: A 32-Bit Brain in a 16-Bit Body

Motorola’s 68000 blended 32-bit power with a 16-bit bus, creating a balanced, orthogonal, and elegant architecture that powered everything from Macintosh to arcade machines.


News Sep 26, 2025 by Luke James
MCU Roundup: New Embedded Features for the Edge, IoT, and Automotive

MCU Roundup: New Embedded Features for the Edge, IoT, and Automotive

Three new microcontrollers from Renesas, Nuvoton, and STMicroelectronics cut power without compromising performance.


News Sep 25, 2025 by Duane Benson
Keysight Pushes VNA Capabilities Up to 250 GHz With Frequency Extenders

Keysight Pushes VNA Capabilities Up to 250 GHz With Frequency Extenders

Keysight’s new 170/250 GHz frequency extenders and calibration kit enable differential broadband testing for next-gen semiconductors and AI-era networks.


News Sep 25, 2025 by Austin Futrell
Paradox of Developing Test Gear: An Electronics Chicken-or-the-Egg Problem

Paradox of Developing Test Gear: An Electronics Chicken-or-the-Egg Problem

The paradox of test equipment design is that it must be more advanced than the devices it tests. We spoke with Tektronix in person to gain insights on this unique technical challenge.


News Sep 24, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Infineon Debuts Pair of Rugged MEMS Microphones for Harsh Environments

Infineon Debuts Pair of Rugged MEMS Microphones for Harsh Environments

Infineon designed the two new digital PDM microphones for high-quality audio capture in demanding and space-constrained environments.


News Sep 23, 2025 by Luke James
AMD Aims New Embedded Processors at Low-Latency Edge Designs

AMD Aims New Embedded Processors at Low-Latency Edge Designs

The new processors bring Zen 5 performance, PCIe 5.0, and DDR5 to rugged edge applications, pairing high-throughput compute with longevity and security features.


News Sep 23, 2025 by Luke James
New Investments Flowing Into Photonics—Part 1: Trends Pointing Upwards

New Investments Flowing Into Photonics—Part 1: Trends Pointing Upwards

Photonics investments are surging due to AI/data centers, healthcare, and security demands, overcoming traditional technology limits with light-based solutions.


News Sep 22, 2025 by Gordon Feller
Optical Chip Beats Counterparts in AI Power Efficiency 100 Fold

Optical Chip Beats Counterparts in AI Power Efficiency 100 Fold

The integrated Fresnel lens architecture enables ultra-low-power convolution, potentially signaling a new era in on-chip photonic AI acceleration.


News Sep 22, 2025 by Luke James
Rohm Touts CMOS Op Amp for ‘Industry’s Lowest Operating Circuit Current’

Rohm Touts CMOS Op Amp for ‘Industry’s Lowest Operating Circuit Current’

Built for battery-operated devices, the new CMOS op amp enables ultra-efficient signal conditioning in wearables, IoT, and compact sensing applications.


News Sep 19, 2025 by Luke James
Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Are you a first year electronics engineering student? Or maybe working on a second or third degree in this field? All About Circuits has the resources you need: comprehensive textbooks, technical articles, calculators, videos, and more for your EE studies.


News Sep 19, 2025 by Jeff Child
Nvidia Launches First GPU Purpose-Built for Million-Token AI Inference

Nvidia Launches First GPU Purpose-Built for Million-Token AI Inference

The Rubin CPX GPU brings million-token context windows to coding and generative video, with 8 exaflops of AI performance in a single rack.


News Sep 18, 2025 by Joshua Tidwell
Deep Dive Into Test Equipment Design: A Look at Tektronix’s 5-Year Process

Deep Dive Into Test Equipment Design: A Look at Tektronix’s 5-Year Process

All About Circuits met with the Tektronix engineers behind the 7 Series to uncover the myriad of design challenges that most people never hear about.


News Sep 18, 2025 by Jake Hertz
SiTime Enters Resonator Market With Tiny MEMS-Based Devices

SiTime Enters Resonator Market With Tiny MEMS-Based Devices

Announced today, SiTime is expanding into a $4 billion resonator market with its Titan platform.


News Sep 17, 2025 by Jake Hertz