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Public Design Competitions Accelerate Open Innovation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Public Design Competitions Accelerate Open Innovation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Government actors around the globe continue a trend of challenging public-sector innovators to accelerate the development of various technologies, including a recent surge in interest in autonomous underwater vehicles


News May 01, 2021 by Lianne Frith
Beyond Distracted Driving: Tesla’s Driver Monitoring System Aims To Save Kids Left in Hot Cars

Beyond Distracted Driving: Tesla’s Driver Monitoring System Aims To Save Kids Left in Hot Cars

With the automotive industry focusing on safety and autonomy, Tesla hopes its new DMS mmWave sensor will help prevent, not only distracted driving but children from being left in hot cars.


News Apr 28, 2021 by Jake Hertz
3 Ways the EE Industry Is Affecting Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Programs

3 Ways the EE Industry Is Affecting Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Programs

With life cycles under five years, LEO satellite rollouts require trusted technology and rapid development windows where industry partnerships are key.


News Apr 27, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Single-chip Controllers Fuel the Ultra-wide Touchscreens Taking Over Dashboards

Single-chip Controllers Fuel the Ultra-wide Touchscreens Taking Over Dashboards

While capacitive touch sensors attract the spotlight in automotive touchscreen technology (and rightly so), single-chip controllers also warrant consideration for the ever-popular ultra-wide touchscreens in vehicles today.


News Apr 22, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Will Panasonic Hit Roadblocks Producing Tesla’s Tabless Battery Cells?

Will Panasonic Hit Roadblocks Producing Tesla’s Tabless Battery Cells?

While Elon Musk's proposed "tabless battery cell" was once only a theory, Panasonic is now teaming with Tesla to scale the 4680 for production. What challenges lie ahead?


News Apr 22, 2021 by Luke James
Banned ADAS Headlight Technology Could Prevent Millions of Accidents

Banned ADAS Headlight Technology Could Prevent Millions of Accidents

While adaptive driving beam (ADB) headlights could prevent millions of nighttime car accidents, this technology is currently banned in the U.S. What advancements are U.S. drivers missing out on?


News Apr 21, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Aluminum: Yet Another Potential Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries

Aluminum: Yet Another Potential Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries

While lithium reigns as the dominant material in battery technology, researchers are exploring a more abundant (and affordable) alternative—aluminum.


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
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
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
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
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
From Space to the Farm, RF Advancements Fuel New 5G Applications

From Space to the Farm, RF Advancements Fuel New 5G Applications

5G will undoubtedly make its mark in crowded urban centers. But how can RF technologies for this spectrum make a difference in rural and even space settings?


News Mar 31, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
New Tool from UnitedSiC Aims to Simplify the Increasingly Confusing Transistor Landscape

New Tool from UnitedSiC Aims to Simplify the Increasingly Confusing Transistor Landscape

A new component selection tool from UnitedSiC aims to make the design of SiC-based applications more straightforward and economical.


News Mar 27, 2021 by Jake Hertz
It’s All About the Timing: 5G Brings Timing Synchronization Burdens

It’s All About the Timing: 5G Brings Timing Synchronization Burdens

Renesas has released three new ICs in its communication timing portfolio to help alleviate the burden of 5G timing constraints.


News Mar 25, 2021 by Jake Hertz
As EVs Heat Up, Can Thermal Management Systems Cool Them Down?

As EVs Heat Up, Can Thermal Management Systems Cool Them Down?

Managing heat in EVs is no simple task. With materials research and heat-resistant power electronics, however, thermal management systems are slowly advancing EV adoption.


News Mar 24, 2021 by Nicholas St. John
The Rise of Wireless Highlights the Importance of Dual-band Radio Design

The Rise of Wireless Highlights the Importance of Dual-band Radio Design

Wireless integration is a now-common reality of most IoT designs. How can designers monolithically integrate 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz more seamlessly?


News Mar 19, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
General Motors Bets on Lithium Metal—Not Lithium Ion—as Path Forward for EV Batteries

General Motors Bets on Lithium Metal—Not Lithium Ion—as Path Forward for EV Batteries

While most EV manufacturers are optimizing existing Li-ion solutions, GM has turned to lithium-metal batteries for the next generation of EVs.


News Mar 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz
The First Commercial Graphene-based Hall Sensors Open Door for Graphene Electronics at Wide

The First Commercial Graphene-based Hall Sensors Open Door for Graphene Electronics at Wide

Paragraf is the first company to grow graphene on a semiconductor wafer, opening the possibilities to a new class of graphene-based electronics.


News Mar 11, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Micro Mirrors Expand Field of View in Intel’s New MEMs LiDAR Camera

Micro Mirrors Expand Field of View in Intel’s New MEMs LiDAR Camera

LiDAR is cropping up in manifold variants, and for scanning LiDAR, MEMs micro-mirrors are a key factor in determining the field of vision.


News Mar 10, 2021 by Jake Hertz