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New Isolated IGBT Gate Driver from Analog Devices for Power Supplies and Photovoltaic Inverters

New Isolated IGBT Gate Driver from Analog Devices for Power Supplies and Photovoltaic Inverters

The ADuM4137, which incorporates fault detection and can also drive MOSFETs, is intended for photovoltaic inverters, power-supply circuitry, and motor-control applications.


News Mar 01, 2019 by Robert Keim
STMicroelectronics Releases New Accelerometer and Gyroscope SiP IC with Built-In Machine Learning

STMicroelectronics Releases New Accelerometer and Gyroscope SiP IC with Built-In Machine Learning

ST has just released their latest sensor IC, the LSM6DSOX, which provides sensor data on acceleration and orientation. In addition, it can also process this data via machine learning without any external microcontroller input.


News Feb 13, 2019 by Robin Mitchell
The Semiconductor of Automotive Power Design: Who’s Offering SiC Components in 2019?

The Semiconductor of Automotive Power Design: Who’s Offering SiC Components in 2019?

A brief overview of silicon carbide AKA SiC, which may replace silicon in power electronics altogether.


News Feb 03, 2019 by Robin Mitchell
Microsemi Releases Libero SoC 12.0, a New Unified Design Suite for SoC FPGA Development

Microsemi Releases Libero SoC 12.0, a New Unified Design Suite for SoC FPGA Development

This week, Microsemi announced their latest unified design suite to help streamline the process of developing on FPGAs.


News Jan 31, 2019 by Robin Mitchell
Western Digital SweRVs Towards Open Source with New RISC-V Core, ISS, and Cache Coherency

Western Digital SweRVs Towards Open Source with New RISC-V Core, ISS, and Cache Coherency

Is open source changing the way we manage data? Western Digital, a data storage device company, switched to RISC-V's open-source ISA (instruction set architecture) a year ago. This month, they announced a series of open-source, collaborative initiatives that aim to make data more open, from processor cores to memory caches.


News Dec 18, 2018 by Kate Smith
Fast Screening for Next-Gen Memory Chips: A Look at Intermolecular, a Silicon Valley Fab Company

Fast Screening for Next-Gen Memory Chips: A Look at Intermolecular, a Silicon Valley Fab Company

Here is the profile of a fab that provides composition screening and stack engineering services for new materials used in the next-generation memory devices.


News Dec 10, 2018 by Majeed Ahmad
News Brief: ON Semiconductor’s Newest CCD Image Sensor for AOI Applications

News Brief: ON Semiconductor’s Newest CCD Image Sensor for AOI Applications

ON Semiconductor has announced their latest CCD image sensor, the KAI-50140, that incorporates 50 megapixels with industrial inspection in mind.


News Oct 30, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Texas Instruments Releases Digital Temperature Sensor Family for Medical and Industrial Applications

Texas Instruments Releases Digital Temperature Sensor Family for Medical and Industrial Applications

Texas Instruments today announced a new family of digital temperature sensors, the TMP117x.


News Oct 25, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek recently released a slim "credit card" dev module for its EVE (embedded video engine) IC, the BT81x.


News Oct 24, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

This article will look at the most important features of the TLV7031 which is a nanoPower comparator from Texas Instruments.


News Oct 17, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Power Supply Monitoring and Sequencing in a Single Chip: New Power Sequencer from Analog Devices

Power Supply Monitoring and Sequencing in a Single Chip: New Power Sequencer from Analog Devices

This article will look at the most important features of the Analog Devices ADM1266, which is a configurable power sequencing device.


News Oct 16, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Historical Engineers: Richard Morley and the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Historical Engineers: Richard Morley and the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Richard Morley is credited as the person who helped modernize industrial facilities with the invention of the programmable logic controller. Learn about his career, accomplishments, and contributions to the field.


News Oct 15, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
New EE Majors, New Engineering Degrees: Interdisciplinary, Digital, and Microdegrees in 2018

New EE Majors, New Engineering Degrees: Interdisciplinary, Digital, and Microdegrees in 2018

Here are a few ways in which the future of education and training may look different for future engineers.


News Sep 17, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN).


News Sep 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Design Implementation in the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite

Design Implementation in the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite

This article will look at the techniques that Vivado employs to accelerate design implementation.


News Sep 07, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Kalashnikov Enters the EV Market, Highlights “Revolutionary” Inverter

Kalashnikov Enters the EV Market, Highlights “Revolutionary” Inverter

What do automatic rifles and electric vehicles have in common? Kalashnikov wants to be famous for both.


News Aug 31, 2018 by David Jones
Meet WARLORD: Metawave Aims to Bring Millimeter-Wave RADAR Sensors to the Automotive Industry

Meet WARLORD: Metawave Aims to Bring Millimeter-Wave RADAR Sensors to the Automotive Industry

We've heard all about LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicle applications. But what about RADAR?


News Aug 29, 2018 by Mark Hughes
FPGA Design Software: An Overview of Time-to-Integration Features in Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite

FPGA Design Software: An Overview of Time-to-Integration Features in Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite

This article will look at some of the most important features of the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite which accelerates the "time to integration" of the design procedure.


News Aug 24, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
History of the ISA: Processors, the PowerPC, and the AIM Triple-Threat

History of the ISA: Processors, the PowerPC, and the AIM Triple-Threat

Continuing our series on the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), this week we delve into the PowerPC ISA.


News Aug 18, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Piezoelectric Speakers and Ultrasonic Sensors Abound: A MEMS-Based Audio Roundup

Piezoelectric Speakers and Ultrasonic Sensors Abound: A MEMS-Based Audio Roundup

Sound can be used to detect objects and communicate. This roundup looks at three new MEMS-based microphones and ultrasonic sensors on display at Sensor Expo 2018.


News Aug 16, 2018 by Mark Hughes