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Tektronix Margin Tester Shrinks PCIe Test Time to Minutes

By creating a new class of test instrument, Tektronix touts its PCI Express (PCIe) margin tester as a tool that reduces PCIe link testing times from hours down to just minutes.

October 25, 2022 by Jeff Child

Intel Supports New USB Spec with Next-gen Thunderbolt Connector

Aligned with the release of the USB4 2.0 spec, Intel’s early Thunderbolt prototype demo marks a milestone next-gen USB technology.

October 24, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Expanded Digi-Key Facility Opens—Boosts Shipping to 81k Boxes Daily

Digi-Key Electronics opened its new distribution center this week at its headquarters. The new facility triples the location’s shipping rate to 81,000 boxes per day of electronic parts.

August 19, 2022 by Jeff Child

EU Officially Rules USB-C as Common Charger By 2024

Consumers will need to look for an icon and a label that indicates charger performance and decide on an unbundled sale before making a purchasing decision.

June 09, 2022 by Biljana Ognenova

Apple Tests iPhones With USB-C Instead of Lightning

Apple may switch from its proprietary Lightning charger to USB-C. What are the measurable differences between these connectors?

June 01, 2022 by Jake Hertz

AMD Rolls-out New Technologies at COMPUTEX 2022

The much anticipated COMPUTEX 2022 hybrid event kicked off last week and continues digitally with leading companies, like AMD. Let's look into AMD's COMPUTEX 2022 announcements.

June 01, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

A Roundup of Three Recent Connectors Hitting the Market

With a market saturated with options, engineers can find a purpose-built connector for just about any project. Here are a few standouts for Ethernet, automation, and defense.

April 22, 2022 by Jake Hertz

DesignCon 2022: Automated Software Targets IEEE 802.3 Cabling

To support advanced IEEE 802.3 networking standards and shrinking test times, Rohde & Schwarz debuted two new software suite options for doing automated testing cable assemblies up to IEEE 802.3ck.

April 08, 2022 by Jeff Child

Setting a World Standard: David Boggs the Co-father of the Ethernet

David Boggs, co-inventor of the Ethernet, helped propel the world of connectivity to the future. Learn about his life, his work with Robert Metcalfe, and how the Ethernet standard shook up the world.

March 02, 2022 by Jake Hertz

The King of Plug-and-Play: How USB Took the World by Storm

Does anyone remember the time before the plug-and-play (P-n-P) method of simply “hooking up” devices with universal serial bus (USB) cables came to exist? Here comes a peek at the history of USB connectors.

February 22, 2022 by Biljana Ognenova

One Charger to Charge Them All: EU Proposes USB-C Becomes the Standard

Hoping to curb e-waste and let consumers have one cord to charge their devices, the European Commission (EC) suggests USB-C should become standard. How could this affect e-waste, designs, and engineers?

October 19, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau

High-speed Contactless Connectors Aim to Solve Connector-related Failures

Aiming to make the connectors have fewer wires, a collaboration between ST and Rosenberger has resulted in a novel, high-speed, contactless connector technology.

October 08, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Packing Power: New Family of Flyback Switcher ICs Integrates USB PD Controller

Power Integrations' new InnoSwitch3-PD family is said to reduce the number of the required components by about 50 percent compared to conventional solutions. 

October 05, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar

Semtech Strives for Data Center Interconnects with Latest Tri-Edge Chipsets

Hoping to take the "edge" off of data center workloads comes two new additions to Semtech's Tri-Edge family. What are they and how do they help data centers keep up through data center interconnects?

September 03, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

Diodes Tackles Signal Integrity with Latest ReDrivers for HDMI to PCIe 4.0

Recently, Diodes Inc. has pushed out new ReDriver technologies, which aim to improve signal integrity. What are these new releases and how do ReDrivers stack up to ReTimers?

August 02, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

Intel Addresses the Quantum Interconnect Bottleneck with Horse Ridge Cryogenic IC

In a recent article in Nature, Intel has quantitatively proven the efficacy of their cryogenic IC Horse Ridge.

May 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz

New Infineon Flyback Converters Target Power Losses in USB Power Delivery

This week, Infineon released a new USB-PD charger that leverages a flyback converter topology for maximal efficiency.

May 05, 2021 by Jake Hertz

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.

April 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz

MIT Researchers Strike the Sweet Spot Between Fiber Optic and Copper Cabling

At just the width of a human hair, a new type of cable from MIT and Raytheon is said to be ten times faster than USB.

March 03, 2021 by Jake Hertz

How Bad Cabling Cost a Spanish Engineering Team 200 Million Euros

This past week, Spain’s attempted launch of its first optical imaging satellite ended in tragic failure—and the reason was frustratingly avoidable.

November 20, 2020 by Jake Hertz