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Here’s the second round of the top single-board computers to recently hit the market, wrapping up the end of summer season.
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Choosing the right capacitor, especially the right tantalum capacitor, is crucial to ensure equipment reliability both at first turn-on and over time. Always consider derating...
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Enhancing power density inevitably means dealing with heat. Fortunately, advances in material sciences, especially thermal interface materials (TIMs), continue to yield substances...
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The op amp field is crowded, but new entrants offer additional subtle but important improvements.

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Automakers and their suppliers face challenges when it comes to rewiring vehicles for the software-defined era. Electronic Design explores the technical road ahead with Analog...
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Piezoelectric MEMS technology can be applied to a range of novel applications, including implementation of a tiny speaker.
ASA Motion Link simplifies automotive cabling while providing high-speed communication.
A quick view of how GaN power supplies are improving efficiency while taking up less space.

More of This Week's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this week on Electronic Design. Check out the rest here. 

A surface acoustic wave and unique metamaterial easily manipulate light at gigahertz rates.
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Now and Then: Minicomputers
For some time, minicomputers were a dominant force in computing. But where do they stand now?
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Listen to the Inside Electronic podcast series on time-sensitive networking (TSN).
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Texas Instruments integrates the analog front-end, digital-to-analog converter, isolation, and I/O in a single component.
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How many microcontroller vendors are out there these days?
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A free-standing magnetic field energy harvester (FSMFEH) can provide isolation and effectively power remote sensors in high-voltage grid and busbar applications.
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Microchip’s display development platform is optimized for field-deployed solar-management solutions used in utility-grade operator panels, mobile maintenance kiosks, and more....
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MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 takes smartphones to the next level with a multi-large-core compute engine and compute-in-engine NPU.
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Can the “sodium gap” be closed between China and America’s efforts to produce lithium-free batteries? Will hydrogen power make EVs obsolete? Read on to find the answers, and check...
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DC chargers can be deployed with 30% lower CapEx in a 30% smaller footprint while delivering up to a 30% cost reduction.
Bourns’ advanced power inductor design provides performance, efficiency, and safety features suited to point-of-load converters and data center environments.
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TDK’s latest automotive-grade thin-film inductors offer higher rated current and lower DC resistance than conventional products.
This article debunks common audio myths, showing how MEMS and modulated ultrasound enable smaller, more powerful speakers with better bass and ANC performance.

Editor's Choice: From the Electronic Design Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters. 

We explore common myths associated with chassis management in a SOSA-aligned system and examine ways to keep embedded systems healthy through a properly implemented chassis-management...
This gallery highlights some of your responses about your first computer.
What you need to know about Robot Operating System 2.0, including features such as DDS support, data-visualization tools, and real-time communication benefits derived from the...
Version 2 of the Robot Operating System, which simplifies hardware acceleration, builds on the popularity and flexibility of version 1.
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.
The CAN bus protocol is being phased out of the automotive industry in favor of single-pair Ethernet due to its increased data bandwidth, node efficiency, security, and more.
The Language Server Protocol (LSP) lets you transcend IDEs. Here’s what you need to know.
Different floating-point formats allow machine-learning systems to operate more efficiently and use less space.
Researchers developed an ion-gated transistor with relatively high transconductance and speed that can be used in analog or digital circuits such as EEG front-end “integrated”...

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

We hope you enjoy the articles on Electronic Design, but there's a lot going on and we can't cover everything. In this section, Electronic Design editors highlight articles they found this week that you might be interested in as well. 

Bill Wong's Picks for the Week

Hopefully you took a look at my latest Now and Then: Minicomputer article but here are a few more articles I saw this week that might interest you 

- Bill Wong

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