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…

Debugging intermittent Comcast, part 3: Retrospective analysis

Why did some things happen? Why didn’t others…and what happened instead? To what extent (if at all) were the outcomes predestined? And what outcomes beg for further study? Ten months back, as I’m writing these words in mid-August 2026,…

MRAMs accelerate adoption in aerospace and defense designs

Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) memory—which combines RAM-like access with non-volatility to help simplify design architectures—is making headway in aerospace, defense, and other demanding systems. Take the case of Teledyne HiRel Semiconductors,…