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A two transistor sine wave oscillator
Figure 1 shows a variation on a sine wave oscillator, it uses just two transistors and a single variable resistor to set the frequency. Figure 1 Just a couple of components are needed for a simple...
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CES 2025: Moving towards software-defined vehicles
Major CES 2025 theme: SDVs Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are a big theme at CES this year, shifting vehicles from hardware-centric upgrades to over the air (OTA) software upgrades. In order to do...
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A brief history and technical background of heat shrink tubing
Heat shrink tubing, rarely referred to simply as “HST” even in our acronym-intensive world, is made of cross-linked polymers and is primarily used to cover and protect wire splices. EDN and Planet...
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Unconventional headphones: Sonic response consistency, albeit cosmetically...
Back in mid-2019, I noted that the ability to discern high quality music and other audio playback (both in an absolute sense and when relatively differentiating between various delivery-format...
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AI at the edge: It’s just getting started
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly to the edge. This generalization conceals many more specific advances—many kinds of applications, with different processing and memory requirements,...
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PWMpot approximates a Dpot
Digital potentiometers (“Dpots”) are a diverse and useful category of digital/analog components with up to a 10-bit resolution, element resistance from 1k to 1M, and voltage capability up to and beyond...
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ADI’s efforts for a wirelessly upgraded software-defined vehicle
A bit on the software-defined vehicle (SDVs) In-vehicle systems have massively grown in complexity with more installed speakers, microphones, cameras, displays, and compute burden to process the...
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Mitsubishi samples high-voltage IGBT modules
Mitsubishi announced that it has begun shipping samples of two new S1-Series high-voltage IGBT modules rated at 1.7 kV. These two components are useful for large industrial equipment, such as railcars...
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Synaptics partners with Google to advance edge AI
Synaptics is pairing Google’s ML core with its Astra AI-native hardware and open-source software to simplify context-aware IoT device development. The MLIR-compliant core on Astra hardware accelerates...
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SoC supports multiple wireless protocols
The Talaria 6 family of SoCs from InnoPhase provides Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 6.0, Thread, and Zigbee connectivity, along with PSA Level 2 and Level 3 security. Powered by an Arm Cortex-M33 processor and a...
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Dev kit uses backscatter Wi-Fi for low-power connectivity
HaiLa Technologies has introduced the EVAL2000 development board, featuring its BSC2000 passive backscatter Wi-Fi chip and ST’s STM32U0 MCU. The platform empowers developers and researchers to create...
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CES 2025: Approaches towards hardware acceleration
Edge computing has naturally been a hot topic at CES with companies highlighting a myriad of use cases where the pre-trained edge device runs inference locally to produce the desired output, never once...
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Integration of AI in sensors prominent at CES 2025
Miniaturization and power efficiency have long defined sensor designs. Enter artificial intelligence (AI) and software algorithms to dramatically improve sensing performance and enable a new breed of...
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CES 2025 coverage
Editors from EDN and our AspenCore sister publications are covering the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Scroll down to see coverage of this year’s CES! CES 2025: Approaches towards hardware...
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Automotive insights from CES 2025
OEMs are shifting from installing black box solutions that specialized functions in the more conventional domain architecture to a zone architecture and a function-agnostic processing backbone where...
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The 2025 CES: Safety, Longevity and Interoperability Remain a Mess
Once again this year, I’m thankfully reporting on CES (formerly also known by its de-acronym’d “Consumer Electronics Show” moniker, although the longer-winded version is apparently no more) from the...
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Part 1: A beginner’s guide to the power of IQ data and beauty of negative...
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part series where DI authors Damian and Phoenix Bonicatto explore IQ signal representation and negative frequencies to ease the understanding and development of SDRs. Part...
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How neon lamps can replace LEDs in AC-powered designs
It’s not difficult to drive an LED indicator from the AC line, but it requires many active and passive components. It also poses safety challenges. EDN and Planet Analog blogger Bill Schweber explains...
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Tamron’s TAP-in Console: A nexus for camera lens update and control
Camera lenses were originally fully mechanical (and in some cases, still are; witness my Rokinon Cine optics suite). The user manually focused them, manually set the aperture, and manually zoomed them...
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How TMDs can transform semiconductor manufacturing
While semiconductors remain in high demand, electronics engineers must stay abreast of associated developments that could eventually affect their work. Case in point: significant advancements in...
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