What do absolute maximum ratings mean to you?
Absolute maximum ratings — AMR — brings significant issues, questions, and considerations especially for power devices...
Beware of innumeracy in technical information, engineering numbers
Using computers and spreadsheets, it’s easy to project a sense of precision that simply isn’t there, leading to a false sense of confidence...
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...
Selecting storage for your industrial application
When considering a flash storage media that should satisfy the rigorous demands of an industrial environment, engineers may want to pay particular attention to temperature, industrial levels of testing, life-time support, and long-term availability...
5G roll-out: a marathon not a sprint
Although the transformative nature of 5G makes it a potentially disruptive technology, it is clear from the early stages of its roll-out...
Making agriculture sustainable with AI and IoT
The integration of AI and the IoT with conventional farming practices provide an opportunity to bring agriculture into the digital age...
Spade lugs and screw terminals eliminate wiring rat’s nest
Completely redoing wiring with old-fashioned, low-tech connectors may sometimes be the smartest decision...
RISC-V speaks on options after Nvidia-Arm news
As the embedded industry digests the implications of the proposed acquisition of Arm by Nvidia, RISC-V International, the organization supporting the adoption of RISC-V, has been quick to highlight the options ahead...
Why the IoT is more than smart fridges and thermostats
The IoT is everywhere, particularly in our homes from voice assistants and smart bulbs to thermostats that learn user preferences...
“Wideband” still elusive in electronic noses
There have been many innovations in electronic “noses,” but none can come close to the broad spectral-sensing range of the biological-based olfactory sensor.