You just Inherited a Simulink model you have never seen before. Now what?
As systems grow, the knowledge needed to safely change them becomes harder to retrieve quickly, even when the design itself is sound. Models increasingly encode not just algorithms, but also assumptions, trade-offs, and system-level intent that…
Debugging intermittent Comcast, part 4: Broadband diagnostics
There’s a lot you can potentially do to boost your WAN’s downstream and upload speeds, as well as to minimize its latency. But only if your service provider lets you.
This is my final post in this series. Really. I promise! Like I’ve said…
The Microsoft-reminiscent iPhone Duo: How much customer holding-and-folding is necessary to keep Apple from folding on the experiment?
New smart phones, earbuds and watches, this year with an added dash of memory price increases. It’s September in Cupertino again.
September 1 was Tim Cook’s last day as Apple’s CEO, after a 15-year tenure with that title. Hereafter he’ll…
SECO pairs Dragonwing with HMI and SBC
SECO has developed a 5-in. industrial HMI panel and a compact SBC, both based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-2390 processor. The Compact Vision 5 Dragonwing IQ-2390 and SBC-Dragonwing-IQ-2390 target industrial connected devices for HMI, control,…
Marelli, Microchip extend ASA-ML to displays
Marelli and Microchip have announced a display connectivity solution that uses the open-standard ASA Motion Link (ASA-ML) to stream graphics and video from a vehicle’s central computer directly to automotive displays. The companies say the…
Dual-port MIPI D-PHY SerDes delivers 20-Gbps bandwidth
A SerDes chipset from EverProX, under its Silicon Line brand, aggregates two simultaneous MIPI D-PHY camera streams, each at up to 10 Gbps, over serialized links. As the first entry in the Silicon Line MIPI Serial Data Link (MSDL) family, the…
AOS boosts power density with 600-V MOSFETs
Two 600-V MOSFETs from AOS come in top-side-cooled packages with co-optimized electrical and thermal paths to maximize power density. The AOGT037V60DE2 and AOGT060V60DE2 αMOS E2 Super Junction MOSFETs feature a built-in fast body diode for…
Altera brings quantum-resistant security to FPGAs
Altera now provides post-quantum cryptography (PQC) support for Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGAs, helping strengthen system security. The FPGAs’ reprogrammable architecture enables designs to evolve as new threats emerge and security requirements…
Double DPOT programming: Parallel gang-up, singleton, or none
Courtesy of this circuit’s flexibliity, you can select and adjust both, one, or none of the channels of a dual digipot.
One huge advantage that digital potentiometers have over electromechanicals is, of course, the inherent flexibility the…
Flash calculator promising cost savings, design flexibility
A new flash cost calculator helps OEMs identify potential savings and explore alternative storage strategies for flash chips at a time when market conditions are putting growing pressure on memory costs. The calculator reduces component costs…
Control knobs are customizable and production-ready
OKW’s award-winning CONTROL-KNOBS for rotary potentiometers and encoders can now be specified customized and ‘production line ready’.
These ergonomic knobs, which won an iF DESIGN AWARD, are ideal for touch/click functions on menu-driven…
A comparison of traditional and DSP-enabled ADCs in radio receivers
In a radio receiver, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sampling rate and the complexity of the analog anti-alias filter in front of it are not independent choices. A sampled system can uniquely represent signals only over a bandwidth of…
