2021-12-10 - Brian Dipert

A 2021 technology retrospective: Strange days indeed

John Lennon once sang "Nobody told me there'd be days like these." That sentiment pretty much sums up this past year.

2021-12-09 - Bill Schweber

Cable self-heating: The other side of IR drop

Although often overlooked, the thermal consequences of power dissipation in cables can be a major design issue.

2021-12-06 - Matthew Reynolds

‘Lighting as a platform’ incorporating connectivity, intelligence

With solid-state lighting now well-established, smart lighting control presents another opportunity to change our lives for the better.

2021-12-03 - John Dunn

The diode and the drop test

Semiconductor stress isn't always electrical. No matter their size, semiconductor devices don't like mechanical stress either. Sometimes, one does need to take both into account.

2021-12-01 - Nitin Dahad

Enabling the hardware for the metaverse

How far are we in creating the hardware and software for enabling the metaverse that leading tech firms seem to want us to live in?

2021-11-24 - Brian Dipert

A holiday shopping guide for engineers: 2021 edition

It's that time again: if you're buying holiday gifts for techie others (and/or maybe yourself), see what ideas a fellow engineer might have for you.

2021-11-23 - Majeed Ahmad

Overhaul poses questions about Toshiba’s semiconductor future

Once an icon of corporate Japan, Toshiba seems unable to get its semiconductor act together in the restructuring into three separate companies.

- Bill Schweber

EMI-resistant ICs provide building-block circuit protection

Besides widely-used add-on approaches to improve EMI resistance, ICs with enhanced EMI protection reduce the need for additional components.

2021-11-09 - John Dunn

Simulation trouble: Bode plotting an oscillator

Using my Multisim SPICE tool to analyze an oscillator, I ran into a little bit of simulation trouble.

2021-11-04 - Nazneen A, PathPartner Technology

The fundamentals of image quality tuning

Tuning an image pipeline for a particular camera system requires an understanding of each pipeline stage and how each stage can be optimized for a particular use case.