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    Andy reflects on how he recently woke up to tariff policies affecting him and his own engineering R&D and thinks that “short-term pain” will be long-term damage.
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    Andy gets more judgmental than usual about the value of science fairs in this installment of Nonlinearities.
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    It’s the start of Automotive Electrification Week at Electronic Design and Andy reflects on the history of battery-management systems and introduces the contributed and editors...
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    It’s Engineers Week—are you doing anything at local schools to raise awareness among students about engineering as a career choice?
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    Our mostly-analog editor reflects on one of the major sustainability impacts of his career as a result of revolutionizing the way LED light bulbs were designed.
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    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.
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    The gnarliness of manually installing Linux-based chip design tools disappears with this simple installation of required Open-Source ASIC design tools, which takes less than an...
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    In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks.