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EDA

It's All About Collaboration and Communication at DAC 2022

This year's Design Automation Conference underscored the growing importance of advanced software development tools, especially those that enable collaboration remotely between...
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Embedded

Enhancing Modern Manufacturing

Advanced technologies matched with a newly skilled workforce will reinvigorate manufacturing processes.
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Electronicdesign 28987 Gettyimages 503152597
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Automation

Can We Make E-Waste Go Away?

How universities, colleges, and companies are doing their part to help chip away at the growing mound of e-waste that’s taking over the world’s landfills.
From left, Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich, Mobileye's chief executive Zi Aviram, and Mobileye's chief technology officer Amnon Shashua, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (Image courtesy of Intel).
From left, Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich, Mobileye's chief executive Zi Aviram, and Mobileye's chief technology officer Amnon Shashua, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (Image courtesy of Intel).
From left, Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich, Mobileye's chief executive Zi Aviram, and Mobileye's chief technology officer Amnon Shashua, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (Image courtesy of Intel).
From left, Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich, Mobileye's chief executive Zi Aviram, and Mobileye's chief technology officer Amnon Shashua, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (Image courtesy of Intel).
From left, Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich, Mobileye's chief executive Zi Aviram, and Mobileye's chief technology officer Amnon Shashua, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (Image courtesy of Intel).
Embedded

Intel Buys Mobileye, Chip Maker Giving Vision to Cars, for $15.3 Billion

The acquisition provides a booster shot to Intel's efforts around self-driving cars. It puts pressure on rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm.
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Powerelectronics 5083 Solar Efficiency Record
Powerelectronics 5083 Solar Efficiency Record
Powerelectronics 5083 Solar Efficiency Record
Powerelectronics 5083 Solar Efficiency Record
Alternative Energy

Report: Renewable Power Generation Technologies Are Now Cost Competitive with Fossil Fuels

Renewable power generation technologies are now cost competitive with fossil fuels and innovation is gathering pace across the sector, finds a new report by Lloyd’s Register. ...
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Solar

Subcutaneous Solar Cells Could Power Pacemakers

A new study provides real-life data on the potential of powering medical implants with solar cells.
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DC-DC Converters

User-Configurable Multiphase Converters Can Handle Up to 450A Loads

Intersil Corporation’s digital multiphase PWM controllers and their associated Smart Power Stages provide a scalable output of 10A to 450A.
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Power

BMW i3 Concept Car Relies on Wireless Feedback of Individual Battery Cell Performance

An electric vehicle employs wireless communication to relay performance feedback on individual battery cells to a host processor, replacing hard-wiring previously used for the...
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PMICS

Design Notebook: Four Interleaved Flybacks Yield Power Factor Correction

When operated in the discontinuous mode, four interleaved flyback converter circuits automatically provide power factor correction (PFC).
(Image courtesy of NEC Corporation of America, Creative Commons).
(Image courtesy of NEC Corporation of America, Creative Commons).
(Image courtesy of NEC Corporation of America, Creative Commons).
(Image courtesy of NEC Corporation of America, Creative Commons).
(Image courtesy of NEC Corporation of America, Creative Commons).
Communications

Start-Up Aims to Untangle Hospital Patients With Wireless Sensors

HMicro is making a wireless chip that measures a patient’s vital signs and relays that information to a smartphone or dongle plugged into a patient monitor.