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Understanding the New Offshore Wind Farms Initiative

An ambitious $3 billion plan may greatly expand American wind-farm output to 30 GW by 2030. What details of this plan might involve engineers and the renewables market at large?

3 days ago by Tyler Charboneau

TI Claims an Industry First—a DC/DC Controller With an Integrated Active EMI Filter

All About Circuits sat down with Texas Instruments to hear firsthand about the company's efforts to help engineers achieve low-EMI power designs—without compromising size or performance.

3 days ago by Jake Hertz

As Chips Scale Down, Leakage Current Goes Up. How Are Developers Responding?

Leakage current is yet another hurdle as Moore's law marches on. Manufacturing techniques, design methods, and research projects are taking on the challenge.

5 days ago by Jake Hertz

Texas Power Outages Illustrate the State’s Importance to the Semi Industry

The outages last month marked yet another setback to an industry that was already having serious trouble with meeting demand from automakers.

March 28, 2021 by Luke James

New Tool from UnitedSiC Aims to Simplify the Increasingly Confusing Transistor Landscape

A new component selection tool from UnitedSiC aims to make the design of SiC-based applications more straightforward and economical.

March 27, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Retrofits and Stopgaps: Intel Releases Rocket Lake-S Chips

Through retrofitting and stopgaps, Intel has launched its 11th-gen Intel Core Rocket Lake-S desktop chips engineered on the new Cypress Cove architecture.

March 26, 2021 by Luke James

STMicroelectronics Brings UVLO (Under-voltage Lockout) to SiC FETs

When designing a circuit, especially in high voltage applications, safety is a major concern. A new isolated gate driver is bringing under-voltage safety features to SiC FETs.

March 26, 2021 by Jake Hertz

As EVs Heat Up, Can Thermal Management Systems Cool Them Down?

Managing heat in EVs is no simple task. With materials research and heat-resistant power electronics, however, thermal management systems are slowly advancing EV adoption.

March 24, 2021 by Nicholas St. John

Cryptocurrency Mines Consume More Power Than Argentina—But PSUs Can Help

Why do cryptocurrency mines burn so much power? And how might mining power supply units (PSUs) be different from general-purpose PSUs?

March 22, 2021 by Steve Arar

New Load Switch Underlines the Place of “True Reverse-current Blocking”

High-voltage electronics cause a number of issues for FETs used as load switches. A new device from Diodes Incorporated aims to tackle the long-standing issue of reverse current.

March 15, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Women’s History Month Spotlight: Edith Clarke, the First Female Electrical Engineer

Edith Clarke not only revolutionized electrical power system analysis; she also blazed a trail for women in electrical engineering.

March 13, 2021 by Hannah DeTavis

General Motors Bets on Lithium Metal—Not Lithium Ion—as Path Forward for EV Batteries

While most EV manufacturers are optimizing existing Li-ion solutions, GM has turned to lithium-metal batteries for the next generation of EVs.

March 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Scientists Reimagine Organic Transistors for Low-power, High-amplification Biowearables

Scientists at the Terasaki Institute have put their own spin on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) to improve the performance in wearable health devices.

March 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz

The First Commercial Graphene-based Hall Sensors Open Door for Graphene Electronics at Wide

Paragraf is the first company to grow graphene on a semiconductor wafer, opening the possibilities to a new class of graphene-based electronics.

March 11, 2021 by Jake Hertz

New UWB Antennas Prove High Precision and Low Power Doesn’t Have to Be a Trade-off

With real-time location services becoming a staple in IIoT and consumer devices alike, the Antenna Company has set out to prove that UWB antennas can have the best of both worlds: high precision and low power.

March 08, 2021 by Jake Hertz

The Class-D Amplifier Is the Star of Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems, ST Suggests

ADAS and AVAS are known to add a number of speakers to an automotive audio system. Class-D amplifiers, however, may be a useful solution for cutting size, costs, heat, and power consumption.

March 05, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

JAXA Is Bringing All Solid-state Lithium-Ion Batteries to Space in 2021

While lithium-ion batteries bear some risks of combustion in consumer devices, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency hopes to experiment with the merits of all solid-state lithium-ion batteries in space.

March 04, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Powering Perseverance: How NASA Provides Electricity to a Rover on Mars

Alone on Mars without the possibility of human intervention, how does the Perseverance rover stay powered?

February 24, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Grid Outages in Texas Spark Discussion on the Challenges of Renewable Energy Integration

Freezing temperatures and rolling blackouts have spurred discussion on whether renewable energy grid integration may be a safety net for future outages. Design-level challenges, however, make this endeavor more complicated than it may seem.

February 19, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

New Eval Tools May Simplify E-Paper Design, the Low-Power Cousin of LCDs

As more engineering teams look to incorporate e-paper displays into their products, proper evaluation tools can help designers cut power and boost memory.

February 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz