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Machine Learning

Securing Data in the Quantum Era

Dec. 1, 2023

AR/VR

Solve Augmented-Reality Display Challenges with Laser Beam Scanning

Nov. 29, 2023

Alternative Energy

Maximizing Power from Solar Panels

Nov. 21, 2023

Memory

Ensuring Robust Embedded-Memory Solutions in Automotive Apps

Nov. 21, 2023

Power

Grid-Forming Inverters: The Missing Ingredient for Sustainable Power Grids?

Nov. 8, 2023

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Power

A Guide to Battery Fast Charging (Part 2)

Nov. 7, 2023

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Test & Measurement

Selecting the Right Voltage Measurement When Testing Batteries

Nov. 2, 2023

Highlights

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Power

An Engineering View into High-Voltage Technology

Oct. 25, 2023

High-voltage power technology will help lead us to a more viable future. What are some of the different avenues being taken to make it happen?

Machine Learning

Three Tips for Boosting CNN Inference Performance

Oct. 10, 2023

Large performance gains with minimal changes in result are possible by optimizing convolutional neural network models.

Test & Measurement

Understanding Battery-Cell Test System Software

Sept. 28, 2023

The system architecture of your battery-cell tester determines how fast and robust the system can be when operating in your test lab.

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Inside Electronics

Timekeeping is Timeless

Sept. 21, 2023

Time is not only fundamental to reality, it's also fundamental to society. The fact that time is a commodity today only underscores its importance.

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Power

A Guide to Battery Fast Charging (Part 1)

Sept. 14, 2023

While higher battery capacity increases a device’s operating life, keeping charging time down presents added challenges for designers. Part 1 provides an overview of those obstacles...

Automation

Powering the Wireless Warehouse

Sept. 7, 2023

Robots now travel through vast arrays of racks several stories high to pick your e-commerce orders. Here's how fulfillment centers are keeping them powered.

Automotive

New Motor Designs Help EV Makers Kick the Rare-Earth Habit (Part 3)

Sept. 6, 2023

Test & Measurement

Triggering: The Digital Edge Over Analog

Aug. 31, 2023

Operating Systems

Which Embedded RTOS is Right for Your Application?

Aug. 29, 2023

Automotive

New Motor Designs Help EV Makers Kick the Rare-Earth Habit (Part 2)

Aug. 22, 2023

Test & Measurement

Practical Input-Referred Calculations in Precision Systems

Aug. 17, 2023

Input-referred calculations are a valuable tool to understand the expected performance of a measurement system, helping to optimize designs and inform system specifications.

EDA

Data-Driven Design: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Engineering Simulations

Aug. 9, 2023

When synthetic data and digital twins are combined, the result is a technological synergy that unlocks design potential, accelerates prototyping, and expands the limits of creativity...

Power

How to Select a Transformer for an Isolated Buck Converter

Aug. 9, 2023

This article discusses which parameters to consider in buck-converter design, the mathematics that should be followed when choosing a transformer, and how these parameters influence...

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EDA

The 7 Pillars of 5G/6G RF System Design (Part 2): RF Power

Aug. 3, 2023

How does power consumption create a set of complex, interrelated conundrums for 5G system design engineers?