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Connected MCUs incorporate Wi-Fi 6/6E, BLE 5.4
A new family of connected MCUs incorporating long-range Wi-Fi 6/6E and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 is targeted at cost-optimized, power-efficient, and small form-factor products for smart home,...
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Reducing error of digital potentiometers
A common problem for digital potentiometers (DigiPots) is the effect of wiper resistance, which produces quite noticeable non-linearities of regulation at both ends of the resistance range. These...
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Power Tips #130: Migrating from a barrel jack to USB Type-C PD
Over the last few years, the USB Type-C® with Power Delivery (PD) standard has been adopted in a wide variety of electronics. This adoption has been driven by benefits such as a unified port (reducing...
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of zero trims
Manual amplifier nulling circuits are simple topologies, typically consisting of just a trimmer pot and a couple of fixed resistors intended to allow offset adjustment by a (usually small) symmetrical...
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When is a “good-enough” battery good enough?
Engineers are familiar with non-experts who quickly extrapolate from recent technical advances to future results, casually stating “at this rate, such-and-such will reach ‘x’ in five years” or...
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Intel unveils high-speed optical I/O chiplet
A fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet from Intel delivers up to 4 Tbps of bidirectional data transfer. The company’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group hosted a live...
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RF front end shrinks package size
Joining Spectrum Control’s SCi Blocks RF portfolio is an RF front-end system-in-package (SiP) for next-generation defense systems. Customizable and digitally enabled, the RF+ SiP provides the...
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GaN MMIC power amps operate in Ka band
Mitsubishi will begin sampling its GaN MMIC power amplifiers for use in Ka band satellite communication earth stations next month. The MGFGC5H3102 and MGFGC5H3103 cover a frequency band of 27.5 GHz to...
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SiC diode lineup spans 5 A to 40 A
Sixteen new Gen 3 1200-V SiC Schottky diodes from Vishay increase the efficiency and reliability of switching power designs. Covering current ratings ranging from 5 A to 40 A, the SiC diodes feature a...
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Wi-Fi module teams with Alexa Connect Kit
A standalone Wi-Fi module, Quectel’s FLM263D works with the Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) SDK for Matter, enabling rapid setup with Amazon Alexa. In addition to Alexa, the FLM263D allows IoT devices to...
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Intel bolsters EMIB packaging with EDA tools enablement
Intel’s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) technology—aiming to address the growing complexity in heterogeneously integrated multi-chip and multi-chip (let) architectures—made waves at this...
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Assume nothing. Question everything.
When I was still in elementary school and household flashlight batteries were D-cells made using carbon-zinc chemistry, some of those D-cells were set in cardboard tubes that enshrouded a zinc can as...
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Simple low-pass filters tunable with a single potentiometer
A scheme of simple band-pass RC- and LR- filters on operational amplifiers containing only one capacitor or inductor and 3 resistors is proposed. A comparison is made of the amplitude-frequency...
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Implementing AI at the edge: How it works
While the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge is all the rage, there are fewer design examples of how it’s actually done. In other words, how AI applications are implemented at the...
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Resurrecting an inkjet printer, and dissecting a deceased cartridge
I purchased my Epson Artisan 730 color inkjet all-in-one (printer, copier, and scanner): in September 2012, coincident with a move to Colorado (my even older Artisan 800 is still in occasional use by...
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Altair eying a place in EDA’s shifting landscape
The EDA industry is known for the trio—Cadence, Siemens EDA and Synopsys—that dominates it and how these companies turned into giants by acquiring smaller EDA outfits. Now, another EDA player is on the...
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Peculiar precision full-wave rectifier needs no matched resistors
A classic analog application is the precision active full-wave rectifier. Many different implementations exist of this theme, each with its own supposed advantages. However, one circuit element needed...
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Sneak diodes and their impact on your designs
Semiconductor companies don’t always highlight the inner details of certain products. One insidious issue is the presence of sneak diodes which is a nasty issue that has been discussed before regarding...
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Image sensors enrich smartphone photography
Three ISOCELL image sensors from Samsung bridge the gap between smartphone main and secondary cameras for enhanced imaging across all angles. The ISOCELL HP9 is the industry’s first 200-Mpixel...
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MCUs pair Cortex-23 core with ReRAM
Nuvoton’s M2L32 MCUs are powered by a 72-MHz Arm Cortex-M23 processor core with up to 512 kbytes of resistive random-access memory (ReRAM). This nonvolatile memory delivers fast read/write speeds and...
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