Nonlinearities

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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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Mostly-Analog editor Andy Turudic takes a look at the original 1963 ISSCC paper that described the world’s first CMOS process with planar P- and N-type MOSFETs.
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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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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...
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DARPA has enabled an ecosystem of Open-Source CAD tools and foundry services that make it possible for startups and individuals to design analog and digital chips for
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Andy shows the many approaches used by engineers to convert ICE vehicles to electric propulsion and provides “how to get started” guides and references
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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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Analogue Computing hits the road as editor Andy Turudic uses THe Analog Thing Analog Laptop Computer to simulate an automobile suspension encountering a pothole.