5G and GaN: The shift from LDMOS to GaN
This article explores how the industry is innovating to satisfy the new demands 5G puts on embedded systems, driving a shift from traditional LDMOS amplifiers to GaN-based solutions...
Teardown: Google Home smart speaker
This smart speaker differs from its more diminutive sibling predominantly in its transducer allotment.
Harnessing emergent opportunities and challenges for medical embedded applications
Demand for medical care and, hence, for all the equipment that enables the care to be delivered, has been rising exponentially in recent years...
Wi-Fi 6 will streamline automotive connectivity
As automakers continue to offer increasingly advanced safety, comfort, and convenience features, Wi-Fi’s role as a critical enabler of reliable wireless connectivity will continue to grow...
Paving the Way to Autonomous Driving with Advanced MEMS & Sensors
STMicroelectronics discusses the different levels of vehicle automation, and how they are enabling the industry on its journey towards autonomous driving.
Intelligent presence detection for commercial building automation
Selecting the right sensors, along with the processors, memory, and timing devices, is key to advancing the capabilities of automated building management.
Mobile edge computing powering virtualized 5G networks and industry
In completing the first end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session in the U.S. recently, Verizon said this paves the way for widescale mobile edge computing and network slicing...
Designing with an LPWAN module
LPWAN technologies have greatly advanced in recent years. The two leading competitive LPWAN technologies today are LoRaWAN and LTE. LoRa Alliance, the organization behind the LoRaWAN specifications...
Energy harvesting proposed to secure IoT’s exponential growth
Energy harvesting will be crucial to face the challenges offered by the exponential growth of IoT devices.Main challenges include the efficiency of power harvesting, and the reliability of the devices that are powered through energy harvesting...
USB Type-C port implementation challenges and design solutions
USB from 1.1 to 3.2 and Beyond First launched in 1996, the universal serial bus (USB) unified the roles of multiple different types of connections and is...