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New technologies in power supplies and management, board-level electronics, electronics and computers, and battery systems provide wide-ranging applications essential to military, aviation, medical, and automotive.

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White Papers: Automotive
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Automotive Functional Safety & Cybersecurity FAQs

Engineered systems inherently present risks to people, the environment, and equipment. However, two measures — functional safety and cybersecurity — can help to mitigate these risks.

White Papers: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Interoperability and Cybersecurity for IoT-enabled Sensor Devices

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized devices and enables data-driven insights that drive innovation. This industry driven white paper examines the biggest...

White Papers: Software
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The Need For Increased Determinism and Ever-Shorter Latency Guarantees

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) are essential for the myriad 21st century applications that are driving the explosive need for real-time, reliable, and secure control...

White Papers: Defense
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Enable Decision Superiority

The DoD is seeking to achieve decision superiority through JADC2 “to produce the warfighting capability to sense, make sense, and act at all levels and phases of war,...

Articles: Manned Systems
After decades of concentrated development work, GM’s fuel-cell R&D unit Hydrotec is poised to deploy “the first applications that will be going commercial” of its hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
The race for very high resolutions places increased demands not only on display manufacturers, but also on the suppliers of light measurement technology.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
While the promise of smaller, better, faster, lighter devices enabled by integrated photonics technologies is indeed the ultimate goal for AIM Photonics, the actual path to high-volume manufacturing isn’t necessarily a smooth ride for PIC designers, developers, and engineers.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
CenterLine’s successful adoption of the virtual twin showcases the technology’s tremendous potential for the automation industry. As virtual twin technology continues to evolve, it will disrupt industries even further.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
To achieve the numerous benefits of mobile automation, manufacturers must take some key implementation considerations into account and follow essential guidelines. Doing so ensures that they apply the right mobile automation solution.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
See what's new on the market, including an EV valve motor drive, a switch mainframe, CAD/CAM software, control panels, and more.
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Briefs: Communications
Making Satellite, Ground Communication More Effective
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Moussa N’Gom has devised a method to make communications between satellites and the ground more effective — regardless of the weather.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers have demonstrated an energy-efficient method for transferring larger quantities of data over the fiber-optic cables that connect the nodes. This new technology improves on previous attempts to transmit multiple signals simultaneously over the same fiber-optic cables.
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Briefs: Imaging
A new patented software system can find the curves of motion in streaming video and images from satellites, drones, and far-range security cameras and turn them into signals to find and track moving objects as small as one pixel.
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Briefs: Communications
MIT researchers have developed a quantum computing architecture that aims to enable extensible, high-fidelity communication between superconducting quantum processors.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
While there may still be times when proprietary or serial communications are useful, the wide availability and low cost of high-performance industrial-specific devices and installation media are making industrial Ethernet the best approach for future-proofing applications and operating most efficiently.
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Briefs: Connectivity
A new paper on wireless connectivity from researchers at the lab of Dinesh Bharadia, an affiliate of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute (QI), introduces a new technique for increasing access to the 5G-and-beyond millimeter wave (mmWave) network.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat into electricity. If perfected, the technology could help recoup some of the recoverable heat energy that is wasted in the U.S. at a rate of about $100 billion each year.
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White Papers: Medical
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High-Efficiency Power Conversion Designs in Automotive and Transportation Applications

Download our Whitepaper for an in-depth examination of the extensive capabilities and competitive advantages of the power management ICs from Diodes Inc....

Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In the digital-design-engineering world, at the foundation of innovation in advanced manufacturing, AI’s “deep learning” has the potential to transform how the world makes products — in highly positive ways.
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Blog: Design
Imagine an iPad with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku poems that jump out from the screen, and even hold your partner’s hand from an ocean away. Such is the vision of a team from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

A joint research team of Dr. Namgoo Kang from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) and Dr. Minseok Kang from the...

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INSIDER: Nanotechnology

The Big Data revolution has strained the capabilities of state-of-the-art electronic hardware, challenging engineers to rethink almost every aspect of the microchip. With ever...

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INSIDER: Data Acquisition

A tiny transistor enables device to acquire and transmit neurophysiologic brain signals while simultaneously providing power to the implanted device.

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Blog: Internet of Things
These days all electronics seems to be digital, except for a few exceptions here and there. However, it’s a mistake to write analog off altogether.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have modified a commercial virtual reality (VR) headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity and examine how we react to hints, stressors, and other outside forces.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The new method paves the way to creating large-scale arrays of optical components and could be used to rapidly manufacture micro-LED displays.
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White Papers: Design
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AMD Meets Rigorous Medical Standards with Hardware and Software Development Resources

Functional safety and cyber security are methods that can be particularly challenging when designing medical devices. AMD offers a broad set of silicon and...

Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products, including digital servo drives, the PM2 pinion series from Neugart, valve controller modules, electric cylinders, and more.
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