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TI’s Sitara AM2x Platform Blurs the Lines Between MCU and MPU

TI’s Sitara AM2x Platform Blurs the Lines Between MCU and MPU

Recently, All About Circuits had the chance to talk with Texas Instruments about its newest MCU development, the Sitara AM2x.


News Jul 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz
From Safety to Design Simplification: IoT Design Takes Another Leap Forward

From Safety to Design Simplification: IoT Design Takes Another Leap Forward

Recently IoT has been at the forefront of everyone's mind, especially for Renesas, Silicon Labs, and Nordic Semiconductor. What IoT innovations have they come up with lately?


News Jul 09, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Marvell’s OCTEON 10: The First DPU To Use Neoverse N2 ARMv9 Architecture

Marvell’s OCTEON 10: The First DPU To Use Neoverse N2 ARMv9 Architecture

Marvell’s newest 5 nm data processing unit (DPU), the OCTEON 10, offers 3x improvement over the previous generation along with the newest ARMv9 Core.


News Jul 07, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
u-blox’s New Kits Help Designers Explore Bluetooth Direction Finding

u-blox’s New Kits Help Designers Explore Bluetooth Direction Finding

Two new hardware kits from u-blox use Bluetooth Direction Finding APIs for indoor positioning applications. Are they using angle-of-arrival or angle-of-departure for direction finding?


News Jul 01, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
A Week of GaN: 3 MMICs Target Ka-band, Reduced Area, and 5G Base Stations

A Week of GaN: 3 MMICs Target Ka-band, Reduced Area, and 5G Base Stations

Qorvo, Microchip, MaxLinear, and Cree Wolfspeed have gone wide, electrically wide-band that is, with newly released GaN-based RF products for 5G and satellite communications.


News Jun 28, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
From Schottky Diodes to MOSFETS: 3 Team-ups Lower Power with SiC Technology

From Schottky Diodes to MOSFETS: 3 Team-ups Lower Power with SiC Technology

The world of SiC technology is about to boom with three different team-ups, from research to large tech companies. Who is teaming up, how are they advancing with SiC, and why?


News Jun 26, 2021 by Ikimi .O
A RISC-V Future? SiFive and Andes Aim to Shake Up the Processor Industry

A RISC-V Future? SiFive and Andes Aim to Shake Up the Processor Industry

RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture, is making inroads against industry giants, with the support of the RISC-V Foundation.


News Jun 25, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Lattice Leverages FD-SOI for New Low Power FPGAs

Lattice Leverages FD-SOI for New Low Power FPGAs

AAC sat down with Lattice Semiconductor to hear about its newest FPGA offering, which claims lower power compared to competitors. However, how does it back up this claim?


News Jun 23, 2021 by Jake Hertz
From 1G to 5G: A Brief Evolution of Telephony and Wireless Networks

From 1G to 5G: A Brief Evolution of Telephony and Wireless Networks

Mobile telephony is entering its fifth decade. Today, we look back at the previous generations of mobile telephony technology leading to 5G.


News Jun 22, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
3 New Image Signal Processors Target Power, Speed, and Autonomous Driving

3 New Image Signal Processors Target Power, Speed, and Autonomous Driving

The push towards autonomous driving is showing a flux of companies releasing image signal processors. What exactly is being improved?


News Jun 16, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Xilinx’s Versal AI Edge Blends the Border Between Programming and EEs

Xilinx’s Versal AI Edge Blends the Border Between Programming and EEs

Wrapping up a two-part series on the new Versal AI Edge series ACAP from Xilinx, AAC talks about the intersection of engineering disciplines and ACAP applications.


News Jun 15, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Supporting the AI Boom: Facing the Challenges of Hardware and Deployment

Supporting the AI Boom: Facing the Challenges of Hardware and Deployment

AI has been a hot topic recently, especially this week. With all the efforts coming out, there is a growing need for better hardware, collaborating, and easing deployment.


News Jun 11, 2021 by Rushi Patel
RF-based Wireless Charging from 2 Meters? New Team-up Combines RF Energy Harvesting and RF WPT

RF-based Wireless Charging from 2 Meters? New Team-up Combines RF Energy Harvesting and RF WPT

Could we be charging our devices from two meters away? Atmosic and Energous Corporation claim we can—and that the key is RF.


News Jun 09, 2021 by Kate Smith
Xilinx Opens a New Door to Edge AI with Newest Adaptable Compute Platform

Xilinx Opens a New Door to Edge AI with Newest Adaptable Compute Platform

Recently, AAC had the chance to talk to Xilinx about its newest family member in the Versal series of adaptive compute acceleration platforms, the Versal AI Edge series.


News Jun 09, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Easing the Effort: Mipsology Accelerates ML with Zebra FPGA IP

Easing the Effort: Mipsology Accelerates ML with Zebra FPGA IP

Today, Mipsology is announcing its solution for FPGA programming: Zebra FPGA IP. This IP aims to ease FPGA programming, giving the designer more time to design.


News Jun 09, 2021 by Sam Holland
ON Semiconductor Aims to Cure Range Anxiety with SiC

ON Semiconductor Aims to Cure Range Anxiety with SiC

The development of fast-charging EV stations will rely heavily on the use of wide-bandgap semiconductors, which is what ON Semiconductor is aiming for with its new SiC MOSFETs.


News Jun 08, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Roundup: Tracking Technology is Paving the Way to New Places

Roundup: Tracking Technology is Paving the Way to New Places

A trend that is gaining momentum is asset tracking. From smart fabrics to the ‘island of lost keys,’ the IoT-based asset tracking technologies pave the way for new commercial markets. 


News Jun 07, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Mythic Redefines Edge AI by Combining Analog Processing and Flash Memory

Mythic Redefines Edge AI by Combining Analog Processing and Flash Memory

A seemingly unique and fruitful approach, analog processing has been the key to Mythic AI’s success. Its newest processor could be a hopeful contender in the world of edge computing.


News Jun 07, 2021 by Jake Hertz
“Smart” Power Lines? ST’s SoC and RF Chipset Get Industry-first Certification

“Smart” Power Lines? ST’s SoC and RF Chipset Get Industry-first Certification

The G3-PLC hybrid standard ensures interoperability and is key to STMicroelectronics delivering competitive market solutions for power line communications.


News Jun 03, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Could Toshiba’s Triple-gate IGBT Lead the Way for a Carbon Neutral Future?

Could Toshiba’s Triple-gate IGBT Lead the Way for a Carbon Neutral Future?

Toshiba’s triple-gate IGBT boasts a 40.5% reduction in switching power loss. Could this be the critical step in carbon neutrality?


News Jun 02, 2021 by Kimber Wymore