1200-V SiC modules enable direct upgrades
Five 1200-V SiC power modules in SOT-227 packages from Vishay serve as drop-in replacements for competing solutions. Based on the company’s latest generation of SiC MOSFETs, the modules deliver higher efficiency in medium- to high-frequency…
Stable LDOs use small-output caps
Based on Rohm’s Nano Cap ultra-stable control technology, the BD9xxN5 series of LDO regulator ICs delivers 500 mA of output current. The series is intended for 12-V and 24-V primary power supply applications in automotive, industrial, and…
600-V MOSFET enables efficient, reliable power conversion
The first device in AOS’ αMOS E2 high-voltage Super Junction MOSFET platform is the AOTL037V60DE2, a 600-V N-channel MOSFET. It offers high efficiency and power density for mid- to high-power applications such as servers and workstations,…
Keysight automates complex coexistence testing
Keysight’s Wireless Coexistence Test Solution (WCTS) is a scalable platform for validating wireless device performance in crowded RF environments. This automated, standards-aligned approach reduces manual setup, improves test repeatability,…
Touch ICs scale across automotive display sizes
Two touchscreen controllers join Microchip’s maXTouch M1 family, expanding support for automotive displays over a wider range of form factors. The ATMXT3072M1-HC and ATMXT288M1 cover free-form widescreen displays up to 42 in., as well as compact…
Chandra X-Ray Mirror
There is a Neil deGrasse Tyson video covering the topic of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This essay is in part derived from that video. I suggest that you view the discussion. It will be sixty-five minutes well spent.
This device doesn’t…
Top 10 edge AI chips
As edge devices become increasingly AI-enabled, more and more chips are emerging to fill every application niche. At the extremes, applications such as speech recognition can be done in always-on power envelopes, while tens of watts will be…
Is this low-inductance power-device package the real deal?
While semiconductor die get so much of the attention due to their ever-shrinking feature size and ever-increasing substrate size, the ability to effectively package them and thus use them in a circuit is also critical. For this reason, considerable…
Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto: Usage impressions and manufacturer tensions
What happens to manufacturers when your ability to differentiate whose vehicle you’re currently traveling in, far from piloting, disappears?
My wife’s 2018 Land Rover Discovery:
not only now has upgraded LED headlights courtesy of yours…
Successive approximation
Analog-to-digital conversion methods abound, but we are going to take a look at a particular approach as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 An analog-to-digital converter where an analog input signal is compared to a voltage reference that has been…
Solar flares and Airbus glitch: software, hardware, both, or what?
You may have seen this news item in late November, but it came quickly and disappeared even more quickly. On October 30, 2025, an Airbus A320 was forced to abort its flight when one of the control computers malfunctioned, apparently due to a…
Round pegs, square holes: Why GPGPUs are an architectural mismatch for modern LLMs
The saying “round pegs do not fit square holes” persists because it captures a deep engineering reality: inefficiency most often arises not from flawed components, but from misalignment between a system’s assumptions and the problem it…
