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Approximating the Human Optical Response: A New Tri-Stimulus Color Sensor from ams

A new tri-stimulus color sensor is designed for providing color measurements that closely match the human eye's response to visible light.

January 04, 2018 by Nick Davis

NATO Adopts New Protocol Standard for Underwater Communications

Underwater transmission protocols may finally be unified in a protocol that aims to help interconnectivity with devices ranging from buoys to submarines.

July 18, 2017 by Robin Mitchell

Serial Communication in Harsh Environments: A New CAN Transceiver from Maxim

CAN-bus transceivers such as the MAX14883E provide robust, convenient communication for demanding applications.

July 12, 2017 by Robert Keim

The Importance of Wireless Communication for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles

Vehicles are getting smarter and part of that is allowing them to "talk" to one another.

June 13, 2017 by Kate Smith

Understanding Mesh Networking: The Future of Wireless Connectivity

Want to know more about mesh networking? Check out this intro.

June 12, 2017 by Robin Mitchell

New SoC Family from TI Simplifies Ethernet Communication to Lower Manufacturing Costs

This News Brief takes a look at the Sitara AMIC110 SoC from Texas Instruments.

June 10, 2017 by Karissa Manske

How Elon Musk’s Neuralink and Bryan Johnson’s Kernal Are Bridging the Biological-Digital Gap

Electronics are ever becoming more advanced but their users, humans, have barely kept up with the changes. But this is something that some companies are attempting to address by trying to bridge the gap between humans and the digital world in the form of neuron-circuit connections.

June 04, 2017 by Robin Mitchell

Teardown Tuesday: Mini Network Router

In this teardown, we will look inside a mini router that creates a wireless local area network.

May 23, 2017 by Robin Mitchell

Intro to the Arduino XBee Shield

The XBee Shield provides an interface to the XBee which adds wireless communication to an Arduino project.

April 25, 2017 by Ebony Calloway

A Brief Introduction to the Common Mode Choke and Its Applications

This article goes over the basics of the humble common mode choke and its applications.

April 23, 2017 by Donald Krambeck

2017 Goes Big on Tiny Electronics: A Bluetooth SoC, Satellite Communication Module, and Linux SBC

In the last two months, some impressively tiny systems were unveiled or released.

April 14, 2017 by Tim Youngblood

A Battle of IoT Protocols: ZigBee vs Thread

The strange relationship between Internet of Things protocols: ZigBee and Thread.

January 23, 2017 by David Williams

GreenWaves’ RISC-V Core to Supersede Cortex Cores in the IoT

Fab-less semiconductor company, GreenWaves Technologies, has developed a new processor designed for IoT applications that they claim that will outmatch ARM Cortex processors.

November 26, 2016 by Robin Mitchell

Light-Based Computers Used to Find Solutions to Complex Logistics Equations

Researchers at Stanford have developed a computer that can solve specific problems using magnetic fields and lasers.

November 06, 2016 by Robin Mitchell

The Next Evolution in Wi-Fi Will Eventually Meet Our Daily Needs

Various amendments of the 802.11 standard are steadily being developed to increase the efficiency of our wireless LANs.

October 20, 2016 by Dr. Steve Arar

A Big Mesh: Military Tactics and the Future of Mobile Communications

An analysis of the historical link between the military's use of retransmission stations ("retrans") and the advent of the mesh network.

September 01, 2015 by Mark Gerasimas