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FiiO transitions: Technology evolutions
Audio peripherals, like all electronics devices, inevitably evolve. Product line transitions sometim...
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AI
Cadence Allegro X AI automates PCB placement and routing for small to medium size designs, reducing ...
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A small, dedicated battery analyzer design
The following paper presents a small, dedicated battery analyzer that I built to separate the “wishf...
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Carbon nanotubes boost image sensor sensitivity
NEC has developed an uncooled IR image sensor that incorporates high-purity semiconducting carbon na...
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Meditations on photomultipliers
Sharing thoughts on these low-light level detection and amplification systems including their inner ...
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Fifth-generation GeneSiC silicon carbide diodes from Navitas boast low forward voltage and ‘low buil...
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Pulse power and transient loads: a very different world
Pulse-power systems and fast-transient applications have clear differences but also share some attri...
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How generative AI puts the magic back in hardware design
Generative AI for hardware is analogous to IDE for software as it can make changes to a design based...
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CXL: The key to memory capacity in next
The new interconnect standard aims to deliver increased memory performance and efficiency for multi-...
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Battery life management: the software assistant
Maximizing battery life is key to keeping devices out of the landfill. Hardware and software are bot...
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USB Power Delivery: incompatibility
An increased focus on perfecting today’s generation’s features and implementations, versus an ongoin...
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A microphone preamp teardown
How do you design a low-noise, decent-gain audio amplifier powered by nonstandard voltage and diminu...
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An APC UPS teardown
Periodic beeps = it’s running off DC. Steady beep = it’s deceased. Just don’t stick a fork in it.
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Buck regulator powers 5
A DC/DC buck regulator, the AOZ2295QI-05 from Alpha & Omega, furnishes 12 A of continuous output cur...
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Demo board manages power for space
A reference design from Renesas pairs its radiation-hardened components for power management with AM...
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Using lightning as an energy harvesting source
Can lightning be harvested as a viable energy source?
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Cadence develops next
Representing the 8th generation of the Tensilica Xtensa LX processor family from Cadence, the LX8 im...
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Kyocera
Series-connected supercapacitor modules in the SCM series from Kyocera-AVX provide strong pulse powe...
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PCIe 4.0 SSD controller bolsters automotive storage
Silicon Motion’s SM2264XT-AT is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD controller targeting automotive central computin...
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A sneak peek at chiplet standards
Here is a brief outline of three standards that are considered vital in creating an open chiplet eco...
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