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    Radioisotope thermoelectric generator of the Curiosity rover
    Out-of-the-box thinking for engineers is extremely difficult when engineers themselves create the box containing problem solutions. Electronic Design’s newly designated Automotive...
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    Tesla CyberCab Robotaxi
    It’s not AI, but teleoperated robots, which are the major threat to skilled trades’ and manufacturing workers’ jobs.
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    Generative AI in the data center
    AI data centers typically require hundreds of megawatts of power, and it continues to rise to the point where most power companies refuse to provide such capacity from the public...
    Andy Turudic
    Inverter layout generated with SiliWiz
    Learn what the difference is between NMOS and PMOS transistors with SiliWiz—a free, browser-based, ASIC layout tool that generates extracted real-time SPICE simulations.
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    Our intrepid, mostly analog editor takes a stab at AI and then tries translating a recent Electronic Design product writeup from Pirate-speak to plain English.
    Mitchell Richling
    As requested by readers, editor Andy Turudic demonstrates that it’s child’s play to set up an Analog Computer to compute a Lorenz Attractor.
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    Land Rover Defender 2020 - Pneumatic Car Suspension System
    Analogue Computing hits the road as editor Andy Turudic uses THe Analog Thing Analog Laptop Computer to simulate an automobile suspension encountering a pothole.
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    A “cheap as chips” open-source Analog Computer can run circles around a Raspberry Pi in solving differential equations and for simulating natural phenomena.
    Andy Turudic
    LTspice simulation of the K2-W Vacuum Tube Op Amp’s design reveals the mad science that created a commercial revolution in 1950s and 1960s analog computing.