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Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2025 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Are you a first year electronics engineering student? Or maybe working on a second or third degree in this field? All About Circuits has the resources you need: comprehensive textbooks, technical articles, calculators, videos, and more for your EE studies.


News Sep 19, 2025 by Jeff Child
Startup Intros ‘Most Advanced’ Multi-Gigahertz Timing and Clock Devices

Startup Intros ‘Most Advanced’ Multi-Gigahertz Timing and Clock Devices

Unveiled today, the new timing chips from Mixed-Signal Devices offer 2 GHz performance and use scalable CMOS to overcome the limits of analog alternatives.


News Jun 03, 2025 by Jeff Child
It Was Technology Innovation Galore at Embedded World 2025

It Was Technology Innovation Galore at Embedded World 2025

Enjoy this fresh crop of technology news from the Embedded World 2025 trade show in Nuremberg, Germany.


News Mar 22, 2025 by Jeff Child
Exclusive Interview—AMD Discusses Edge AI, Embedded x86, Adaptive SoCs, and More

Exclusive Interview—AMD Discusses Edge AI, Embedded x86, Adaptive SoCs, and More

In this exclusive Embedded World 2025 interview, we talk to AMD’s Kirk Saban about edge AI, ASICs vs. FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs, embedded x86, and the outlook ahead.


News Mar 21, 2025 by Jeff Child
A Preview of What’s Brewing for Embedded World 2025

A Preview of What’s Brewing for Embedded World 2025

Check out the technologies and products these leading companies plan to showcase at next week's Embedded World trade show in Nuremberg, Germany.


News Mar 08, 2025 by Jeff Child
Flux Upgrade Graduates AI Assistant to AI Circuit Co-Designer

Flux Upgrade Graduates AI Assistant to AI Circuit Co-Designer

I gave Copilot's latest upgrade a trial run to see if artificial intelligence could take a circuit from idea to PCB layout. Here's what I found.


News Mar 06, 2025 by Duane Benson
ISSCC 2025: Intel Propels Chiplet Interconnect Speed and Flexibility

ISSCC 2025: Intel Propels Chiplet Interconnect Speed and Flexibility

The company demonstrated configurable, bandwidth-scalable heterogenous 2.5D interfaces across 20 chiplets from two foundries.


News Feb 24, 2025 by Duane Benson
What Will Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing Look Like by 2035?

What Will Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing Look Like by 2035?

In a recent report, IDTechEx defined the who, what, and when of sustainable IC and PCB manufacturing.


News Feb 12, 2025 by Seth Price
One Month Into 2025, Business Deals Fire Up the Semiconductor Industry

One Month Into 2025, Business Deals Fire Up the Semiconductor Industry

From Cadence taking over Secure-IC to Quantum Brilliance pocketing $20 million in funding, the semiconductor is already making big moves this year.


News Jan 28, 2025 by Luke James
Princeton Leverages AI to Take On the Legwork of Wireless Chip Design

Princeton Leverages AI to Take On the Legwork of Wireless Chip Design

As a complement to human creativity, Princeton researchers used deep learning to create faster, high-performance wireless chip designs.


News Jan 14, 2025 by Luke James
Industry Weighs in With 2025 Forecasts—Part 1: General Predictions

Industry Weighs in With 2025 Forecasts—Part 1: General Predictions

On this New Years Day, we share 2025 predictions from leading companies in our industry.


News Jan 01, 2025 by Jeff Child
2024’s Top Technical Articles and More

2024’s Top Technical Articles and More

As 2024 comes to an end, we look back on the year's most popular technical articles, industry articles, and projects.


News Dec 30, 2024 by Abby Garfinkle
Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Tradeshows Help Make This a People Business—A Look Back at Four 2024 Events

Merry Christmas! Never forget that our business is a people business. Enjoy this review of four of the trade shows All About Circuits attended this year, and the great people we met.


News Dec 25, 2024 by Jeff Child
Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Everything Goes Up! Top Trends of 2024

Three hot technologies are leading the way in continuing the Moore’s Law performance increases that can no longer be achieved by transistor scaling alone.


News Dec 23, 2024 by Dale Wilson
Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

Our 2024 Favorites: Hand-Picked Highlights from the All About Circuits Team

We publish hundreds of articles every year—too many even for our team to read them all. So, we decided to share our favorite 2024 news, technical articles, projects, and podcasts with each other and all of you. Enjoy!


News Dec 20, 2024 by Dale Wilson
Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

Microchip Unwraps PolarFire Solution Stacks for Imaging and Robotics

The new software solution stacks target challenging applications such as smart robotics and medical imaging.


News Dec 18, 2024 by Duane Benson
PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

Power Integrations has upped its GaN game with InnoMux-2 IC, delivering more than 90% efficiency from a 1000 VDC bus and supplying up to 60 W from three accurately regulated outputs.


AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

AMD First to Release FPGA Devices With CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6

Unveiled today at Electronica, AMD designed the new FPGA to act as a “traffic cop” in larger AI systems.


News Nov 12, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Remembering Charles Sporck, the Johnny Appleseed of Fabs

Remembering Charles Sporck, the Johnny Appleseed of Fabs

It takes more than physicists and electrical engineers to advance the semiconductor industry. Charles Sporck, ME, helped drive the early days of the tech industry with production, operations, and management expertise.


News Nov 04, 2024 by Duane Benson
Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

Renesas and Intel Collaborate on Power Management ICs for AI PCs

The partnership has produced three new integrated circuit solutions for Intel's next generation of battery-efficient laptops.


News Oct 29, 2024 by Jake Hertz