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20 MHz Magic: How a Slow Clock Delivers Sub-Meter Ranging Around Mars

20 MHz Magic: How a Slow Clock Delivers Sub-Meter Ranging Around Mars

Japan’s MMX mission relies on NEC’s LIDARX chip to achieve sub-meter ranging precision around Phobos with a 20 MHz clock, balancing space-grade reliability and dynamic range.


News Oct 22, 2026 by Robert Martin
Summit 2026 - Advanced Position Sensing Solution For Humanoid Robots

Summit 2026 - Advanced Position Sensing Solution For Humanoid Robots

Infineon’s XENSIV™ Hall sensors enable precise motor control and tactile sensing in hands. Learn key design requirements and engineering challenges for stable, reliable robotic motion.


Summit 2026 - Beyond Piezo: The Future of Ultrasound with XENSIV™ MEMS Ultrasonic Transceiver

Summit 2026 - Beyond Piezo: The Future of Ultrasound with XENSIV™ MEMS Ultrasonic Transceiver

XENSIV™ MEMS transceivers enable smaller, more integrated, and highly scalable sensing solutions. Learn key design considerations and emerging use cases across robotics and automation.


TI Unveils New ADC and Power ICs to Slash AI Data Center Downtime

TI Unveils New ADC and Power ICs to Slash AI Data Center Downtime

This week, at the OCP Summit, Texas Instruments unveiled three new ICs designed to prevent power glitches, streamline high-voltage distribution, and minimize signal jitter in AI data centers.


News Oct 16, 2026 by Jeff Child
Summit 2026 - Precision Timing: The Silent Dependency in High-Reliability Systems

Summit 2026 - Precision Timing: The Silent Dependency in High-Reliability Systems

Timing failures rarely announce themselves. They usually surface as system instability. Join us for a look at how SiTime's precision timing solutions keep that dependency silent for decades.


News Oct 14, 2026 by Dale Wilson
The LM339: A Quad Comparator in Everything From Chargers to Motherboards

The LM339: A Quad Comparator in Everything From Chargers to Motherboards

National Semiconductor packed four single-supply comparators into one cheap package and created one of the most widely used analog ICs ever made.


News Oct 09, 2026 by Luke James
Summit 2026 - From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power Infrastructure

Summit 2026 - From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power Infrastructure

From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power Infrastructure


News Oct 07, 2026 by Tektronix
Summit 2026 - The Hidden Tech Powering AI: Advanced Magnetics for Next-Gen Data Centers

Summit 2026 - The Hidden Tech Powering AI: Advanced Magnetics for Next-Gen Data Centers

As AI power demands grow, advanced magnetics, protection, and power management technologies are enabling more efficient, reliable, and scalable data center architectures.


Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

In this interview article, Renesas VP Peter Jenkins discusses how the company is leveraging its automotive sensor heritage and mixed-signal ICs to power the future of edge AI and humanoid robotics.


News Oct 05, 2026 by Jeff Child
The LM3914: Turning a Voltage Into a Row of Lights

The LM3914: Turning a Voltage Into a Row of Lights

National Semiconductor reduced the analog bar-graph display to a single IC, a handful of LEDs, and one resistor. The level meter was never the same.


News Sep 11, 2026 by Luke James
Sensibel’s MEMS Smart Optical Microphone Hits New Performance Peaks

Sensibel’s MEMS Smart Optical Microphone Hits New Performance Peaks

The new mic offers an 84-dBA signal-to-noise ratio and a 146-dB acoustic overload point—a 10-dB improvement over the industry standard.


News Sep 09, 2026 by Duane Benson
Bourns Adds LTCC Bandpass Filters for 5G C-Band RF Front Ends

Bourns Adds LTCC Bandpass Filters for 5G C-Band RF Front Ends

The new devices provide compact C-band filtering options for 5G RF front-end designs from 3,300 MHz to 5,000 MHz.


News Sep 01, 2026 by Austin Futrell
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 Aug 31, 2026 by Robert Martin
Microchip Reveals One of Its Lowest Power Atomic Clocks Yet

Microchip Reveals One of Its Lowest Power Atomic Clocks Yet

Drawing less than 120 mW and tolerating 30 krad of total ionizing dose, the chip-scale atomic clock keeps LEO satellites synchronized when GNSS timing is unavailable.


News Aug 27, 2026 by Luke James
Rohm’s New Oscillation Device Paves Path to Terahertz Commercialization

Rohm’s New Oscillation Device Paves Path to Terahertz Commercialization

Rohm’s second-generation resonant tunneling diode oscillator reaches 40 µW maximum output in the same package as gen 1.


News Aug 21, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Nuvoton Teams up With Klippel To Reimagine Smart Audio Amplifiers

Nuvoton Teams up With Klippel To Reimagine Smart Audio Amplifiers

New chip weds advanced technology from Nuvoton and Klippel to create a high-performance audio solution for smart audio devices


News Aug 17, 2026 by Duane Benson
The TL072: A JFET Op Amp That Became the Default for Audio

The TL072: A JFET Op Amp That Became the Default for Audio

Texas Instruments combined JFET inputs with a bipolar output stage in 1977—and it slowly took over guitar pedals, synthesizers, and mixing desks.


News Aug 14, 2026 by Luke James
NXP Tunes Into Automotive Infotainment With Hybrid Radio-AI Processor

NXP Tunes Into Automotive Infotainment With Hybrid Radio-AI Processor

The compact system footprint and streamlined integration may help automakers adapt to shifting radio policies.


News Aug 06, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
The MOS 6581 SID: Giving the Commodore 64 Its Voice

The MOS 6581 SID: Giving the Commodore 64 Its Voice

Bob Yannes built a three-voice analog synthesizer onto one die in 1982, and its imperfect filter became the signature sound of an era.


News Jul 31, 2026 by Luke James
The NE565: The Chip That Made the Phase-Locked Loop Practical

The NE565: The Chip That Made the Phase-Locked Loop Practical

Signetics packed a VCO and phase detector into one 14-pin part, turning a daunting feedback technique into something an ordinary engineer could build.


News Jul 17, 2026 by Luke James