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…
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…
Fun with third-order active filters
Butterworth response circuits come in both low- and high-pass versions, as well as ideal, Sallen-Key, emitter follower and DC accurate variants.
Many decades ago, I published a Design Idea about using equal value resistors and capacitors to…
Occam’s Razor and a USB-C to HDMI adapter
The simplest explanation is likely the best, even if its validity isn’t always intuitively obvious in advance.
Speaking of USB-C, and the cables (including splitters) that connect to it to other things…
My long-in-the-tooth Intel-based 2018…
Automotive coolant level sensors: Fundamentals to stay cool
Coolant level sensors may seem small, but they guard against big failures. In this Fun with Fundamentals entry, we break down how these devices keep engines—and engineers—from losing their cool.
On a blazing summer road trip, the dashboard…
Overstressed over an erratically flickering check-engine lamp
Be prepared to respond to “electrical overstress” claims from semiconductor suppliers by citing their own datasheet entries.
During my automotive embedded career, I was heading a product team controlling auxiliary functions of a diesel engine…
Data density: The constraint reshaping wireless for edge AI
Autonomous systems are making the transition from controlled pilot operations to large-scale deployment across transportation and industrial environments. Additionally, AI training facilities are scaling up to host thousands of AI agents operating…
