Enterprise AI: Reshaping AI processor architectures
For the past decade, the artificial intelligence landscape followed a remarkably simple recipe: if you wanted better AI, you built larger models, fed them more data, and added more GPUs. The formula worked, and it worked spectacularly.
Every…
Missing sense: Why physical AI can see everything and feel nothing
Reach into your pocket and find your keys without looking. You just did something no robot can reliably do. You couldn’t see into your pocket, yet your fingers sorted keys from coins and lint, registered the weight and the cut edges, and closed…
Simple, compact circuit conveniently controls devices and systems
This easy-to-build PWM source is a handy testing tool for hobbyists, technicians, engineers and other RC-based device developers.
I work at a university where I’m charged with designing and developing all manner of circuits and systems for…
Siemens EDA acquires SoC toolmaker Precision Innovations
Siemens EDA has snapped up a San Diego startup to complement its digital design and implementation capabilities with AI-powered exploration for advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) architectures. Precision Innovations, a privately held EDA company,…
Precision in motion: The engineering value of LVDTs
Linear variable differential transformers (LVDTs) stand out as one of the most reliable displacement sensors in modern engineering. By converting linear movement into proportional electrical signals, they deliver unmatched accuracy and repeatability…
Adapter makes CarPlay connectivity wireless
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combine to untether smartphone-to-car connections…at least until the former’s battery drains, that is.
At this year’s beginning, EDN published my overview and hands-on impressions of Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s…
A ferroelectric-fluid motor may challenge magnetic-motor designs
It took 100 years to come to fruition, but this recently created fluid enables non-magnetic electrostatic-based motors.
Say the word “motor” to most engineers and they almost always associate it with magnetics of some type, whether the term…
USB-C’s lingering incompatibilities and other complexities, part 1: Direct-connect complications
USB-C will be 22 years old next month, from a published-specification standpoint. Yet it’s still rife with implementation imperfections. Why? Start with the words “published specification”.
One of the many upsides to my now-dual roles…
Microchip offers free MPLAB compilers, AI tools
MPLAB XC Pro Compilers and the MPLAB Machine Learning Development Suite from Microchip are now available at no cost. Unlimited installations give users free access to advanced optimization capabilities and integrated embedded machine learning…
TVS diodes clamp automotive transients
Two TVS diode series from Littelfuse, the TP5.0SMD-FL and TP1KSMB-FL, protect 48-V automotive electronics from voltage transients. Based on the FlatSuppressX TVS architecture, the devices exhibit a flatter clamping characteristic with a significantly…
Holotomography system analyzes glass defects
Tomocube’s HT-T1D is a desktop holotomography system for high-resolution, non-destructive 3D defect analysis of glass substrates used in semiconductor packaging. It images internal defects and other fine features with a lateral resolution…
Rad-hard gate driver enables GaN adoption
Infineon’s RIC70115 GaN HEMT gate driver provides the radiation hardness and long-term reliability required for satellite and space applications. Supporting both silicon FETs and GaN HEMTs in low-side and high-side configurations, the device…
