With a goal of serving the design needs of small form-factor embedded systems, Silicon Labs is rolling out families of MCUs and wireless SoCs in tiny packages.
March 17, 2023 by Jeff Child
Made from seaweed, rock salt, water, and graphene, the sensor is a more sustainable alternative to polymer-based solutions currently used for health-monitoring wearables.
March 08, 2023 by Jake Hertz
With its new sensor IC, STMicroelectronics hopes to enable a new class of hearables for applications like true wireless stereo (TWS).
March 06, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Offering compact packaging, BLE functions, and more, today’s power management integrated circuits (PMICs) are meeting the technology needs of a variety of system designs.
February 25, 2023 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
Offering new chip-scale package (CSP) options and support for higher battery termination voltages, Nordic Semiconductor today has released three new PMICs.
February 15, 2023 by Jeff Child
Putting its proprietary MEMS technology and clever ASIC design to work, Infineon marries high audio quality and low lower in a tiny microphone device.
February 13, 2023 by Jeff Child
With NeuralTree, EPFL researchers are vaulting traditional challenges of implantable SoCs, like low channel count, system complexity, and large area.
February 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
With the ability to operate in both blood and water, the organic electrochemical transistor is proven useful for onsite signal processing.
January 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Aimed at enabling low-power sensing applications such as AR/VR and wearables, ST's IMU serves up sensor fusion blocks and machine learning (ML) cores.
November 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Enabling use in size-constrained system designs, a crop of MOSFET ICs are available that leverage small IC package formats.
November 26, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.
From electrically-stimulating leg sleeves to smart industrial work boots, new wearables are safely putting more people on the move.
November 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Aiming to usurp Arm processors in size-constrained, compute hungry designs like wearables, SiFive has expanded its RISC-V “Performance” line of processors.
November 01, 2022 by Jeff Child
As of today, users can buy over-the-counter hearing aids online and in-store, inspiring medtech companies to mobilize new design efforts.
October 17, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
The company leverages micro-transfer printing (mTP) for a new high-density laser spectrophotometer chip.
October 08, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Researchers are refining soft adhesive ultrasound patches that provide continuous imaging—sometimes for up to 48 hours.
September 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University may usher in an age of mass-producible stretchable soft electronics (SSEs).
Looking beyond uncomfortable blood draws for lab results, Caltech researchers hope to unlock a new era of reusable, continuous sweat-monitoring wearables.
August 19, 2022 by Jake Hertz
To reduce e-waste, researchers are experimenting with paper-based batteries. This latest one comes from Empa, which is activated by water.
August 01, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Where other wearables falter, e-tattoos are showing major promise, especially in the medical field regarding blood pressure monitoring.
July 27, 2022 by Jake Hertz
For people unable to use voice- or touch-controlled IoT devices, the nose-clip prototype may make breath-based home automation a reality.
July 26, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
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