Blinkers
Selective oscillation achieves desired attention aspirations absent undesirable side effects.
Someone I knew long ago had a small electronics company with a client who wanted to make an attention-grabbing light display for a store window. This…
Rethinking automotive compute in the software-defined era
The automotive industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Vehicles are no longer static machines defined at production. They are becoming dynamic, software-defined platforms that evolve over time through updates, new features, and…
Carl Sagan’s prescient thoughts on AI and robots
Revisiting the past can leave the reader with a range of reactions, including both bemusement at then-embryonic developments and amazement at the accuracy of forecast extrapolations.
After reading the sentence that follows this one, pause for…
Hybrid capacitors target automotive power
Taiyo Yuden has introduced the HVX(-K) and HTX(-K) series of AEC-Q200-qualified conductive polymer hybrid aluminum electrolytic capacitors. The 46-device lineup is intended for noise suppression and power smoothing in power supply circuits for…
IP enables 8K image and video post-processing
VeriSilicon’s CPP2000 Camera Post-Processing IP improves image quality for reliable vision performance in robotics, drones, and other mobile vision applications. It is designed for straightforward SoC integration and processes YUV images from…
Hall-effect sensor measures 10-turn position
The Vishay 34 PHE absolute position sensor provides 10-turn linear or rotary displacement sensing with a 3600° range. Using non-contact Hall-effect technology, it delivers up to ±1% linearity (full stroke), 1° resolution, and a service life…
Stacked-die half-bridge boosts MOSFET power density
Using a vertically stacked-die design, AOS’s DFN6×5 AmpStack package integrates two MOSFETs configured as a high-side/low-side half-bridge. It increases power density and maximizes available PCB space compared to a solution using two discrete…
Enterprise SSD accelerates AI server data transfer
Samsung’s PM1763 PCIe 6.0-based enterprise SSD features 9th-generation V-NAND flash memory and a new 4-nm controller. Optimized for AI and HPC servers, the drive is available in 4-TB, 8-TB, and 16-TB capacities. The 16-TB model delivers sequential…
Solid state airflow sensor with linear 4-20mA output
A self-heated Darlington transistor pair makes a simple, sensitive, and sturdy airflow sensor. But first an annoying non-linearity needs unbending.
If you take a self-heated transistor in a TO-92 package and force it to hold a constant temperature…
Understanding all costs involved in analog ASIC development
The costs of designing and producing an analog ASIC chip can be grouped into three main parts: human capital, software tools, and prototype fabrication. While all three are equally critical to success, it’s important to note that design tools…
CXL Type 3: Tooling and boot path from power-on to usable memory
Part 1 of this min-series established why CXL Type 3 memory expanders matter for capacity-bound workloads and where expander memory sits in the latency–capacity pyramid relative to local DRAM. It also explained what must align across the stack…
Making noise with a BANG, part 1: Concept and hardware
This noise generator has an adjustable bandwidth and a consistent amplitude no matter what bandwidth is selected.
When working on a recent Design Idea for an adjustable filter, I wanted to use an electrical noise source to generate an FFT spectrum…
