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All About Circuits Looks Ahead at Embedded World 2024

All About Circuits Looks Ahead at Embedded World 2024

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


News Apr 03, 2024 by Jeff Child
Special Feature: Connectors Eye High Density and Performance

Special Feature: Connectors Eye High Density and Performance

To meet demands for higher densities, faster performance, and compliance to open standards, connector manufacturers are racing to keep pace.


News Mar 31, 2024 by Jeff Child
5 Electrical Engineering Research Projects Making Their Mark in 2024

5 Electrical Engineering Research Projects Making Their Mark in 2024

From 3D processors to self-powered sensors, these academic research projects show how "the next big thing" in electronics may emerge from labs worldwide.


News Mar 08, 2024 by Jake Hertz
ST Drops Two Time-of-Flight Sensors for 3D Depth Sensing

ST Drops Two Time-of-Flight Sensors for 3D Depth Sensing

ST has newly released an all-in-one LiDAR module for 3D direct ToF and pushed another indirect ToF sensor into mass production.


News Feb 28, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Allegro Microsystems Launches High-Bandwidth Current Sensors for EVs

Allegro Microsystems Launches High-Bandwidth Current Sensors for EVs

Both current sensors are designed to improve efficiency in GaN and SiC power converters.


News Feb 15, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Distance Measurement Solution Taps Bluetooth LE Channel Sounding

Distance Measurement Solution Taps Bluetooth LE Channel Sounding

In this news analysis piece, Nthatisi examines Silicon Labs’ High Accuracy Distance Measurement (HADM) solution, which leverages Bluetooth LE's Channel Sounding feature, designed for complex RF environments.


News Feb 09, 2024 by Nthatisi Hlapisi
Duke University’s MadRadar Attack Causes Automotive Radar to ‘Hallucinate’

Duke University’s MadRadar Attack Causes Automotive Radar to ‘Hallucinate’

What happens when your car sees something that’s not there?


News Feb 06, 2024 by Aaron Carman
AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

AMD Launches Embedded+ Architecture Blending Ryzen and Versal

Unveiled today, the new architecture hopes to facilitate sensor integration, offloaded processing, and faster times to market.


News Feb 06, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Sound-Powered Sensors Open Another Avenue to Eliminate Batteries

Sound-Powered Sensors Open Another Avenue to Eliminate Batteries

A new metamaterial-based sensor harvests the vibration energy from sound waves to monitor buildings, earthquakes, or even medical devices—all without batteries.


News Feb 02, 2024 by Duane Benson
Melexis Releases ‘Revolutionary’ MEMS Pressure Sensor for EV Cooling

Melexis Releases ‘Revolutionary’ MEMS Pressure Sensor for EV Cooling

Melexis is debuting its Triphibian technology in a new MEMS pressure sensor that measures both gas and liquid—and is robust enough to survive a frozen state.


News Jan 29, 2024 by Duane Benson
Building IoT Sensors Armed With AI, Wi-Fi 6, and Matter Capabilities

Building IoT Sensors Armed With AI, Wi-Fi 6, and Matter Capabilities

In this news analysis piece, Nthatisi discusses crafting sensors equipped with Wi-Fi 6, Matter, and Machine Learning using Silicon Labs' SiWx917 IoT device.


News Jan 27, 2024 by Nthatisi Hlapisi
Behind the Largest Family of Automotive Multi-Channel Temperature Sensors

Behind the Largest Family of Automotive Multi-Channel Temperature Sensors

Microchip recently announced the MCP998x family of automotive-grade, multi-channel temperature sensors—the so-called largest portfolios of its kind in the industry.


News Jan 23, 2024 by Arjun Nijhawan
These 3 Hardware Startups Brought Engineering Ingenuity to the CES Stage

These 3 Hardware Startups Brought Engineering Ingenuity to the CES Stage

This year’s event was full of advances in fields ranging from EV charging to ESD prevention.


News Jan 20, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Infineon Rolls Out Magnetic Position Sensor Using TMR Technology

Infineon Rolls Out Magnetic Position Sensor Using TMR Technology

By measuring position with magnetics, the new position sensor frees up system real estate for designers.


News Jan 19, 2024 by Aaron Carman
Bosch Claims Smallest MEMS Accelerometers for Hearables and Wearables

Bosch Claims Smallest MEMS Accelerometers for Hearables and Wearables

The new MEMS devices have a 76% smaller footprint than Bosch’s current generation of acceleration sensors.


News Jan 16, 2024 by Jake Hertz
TI Simplifies ADAS and EV Designs With One-Chip Sensing and Power Solutions

TI Simplifies ADAS and EV Designs With One-Chip Sensing and Power Solutions

This week, TI unveiled several single-chip automotive solutions at CES—one of which is the first automotive radar sensor for satellite architectures.


News Jan 10, 2024 by Aaron Carman
NXP Serves up a 77 GHz Radar SoC for Software Defined Vehicles

NXP Serves up a 77 GHz Radar SoC for Software Defined Vehicles

At CES today, NXP announced its next generation 77 GHz radar system on chip designed to create a 360-degree network of “software defined” radar sensors for vehicles.


News Jan 09, 2024 by Duane Benson
‘Drone With Ears’ Uses MEMS Microphones to Hear Disaster Victims

‘Drone With Ears’ Uses MEMS Microphones to Hear Disaster Victims

You’ve heard of eye in the sky, but this new drone uses hearing to locate disaster victims.


News Dec 13, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Ingestible Sensor Completes First In-Human Trial to Monitor Vital Signs

Ingestible Sensor Completes First In-Human Trial to Monitor Vital Signs

MIT has reported the first-ever in-human trial of an ingestible vitals-monitoring pill.


News Nov 29, 2023 by Jake Hertz
NXP Rolls Next-Gen UWB ICs to Enable Smarter Car Access and More

NXP Rolls Next-Gen UWB ICs to Enable Smarter Car Access and More

Packing a radar and UWB transceiver in one chip, NXP’s latest development, announced today, simplifies vehicle access.


News Nov 28, 2023 by Aaron Carman