With increasing demand for high-power fast charging in electronic devices, the USB Power Delivery (USB PD) protocol has become the most widely employed charging protocol for modern smart devices.

One of the most important aspects to consider in hardware testing that involves radio frequency (RF) is choosing a configurable, calibrated, and reliable signal source. This article provides a ...

As described in the first part of this two-part series, USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, ...

At the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco last December, TSMC introduced its 2nm process technology, highlighting ...

The embedded market survey has been tracking trends in embedded systems since the early 1990s. The last study was in 2019 and subsequently missed some years due to the pandemic. The latest 2023 study ...

Speaking in Taiwan during the Computex event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlined his vision of computing’s future, describing a new era in which artificial ...

The SIL is then carried forward throughout the rest of the development process. Developers not only have to achieve the safety goals for their given SIL, they have to prove that the safety goals are ...

The Raspberry Pi Pico, powered by the RP2040 microcontroller, is a versatile piece of hardware for graphical user interface (GUI) applications, especially ...

Micro-energy harvesting for self-sufficient microsystems is developing rapidly and has great growth potential shortly. New technical advancements in ...

Each column is composed of two bitlines, “+” and “-“, connected to their respective sense amplifiers used to read/write data to/from the cells. Both read and write operations are performed on a ...

When testing a device that converts digital information to analog (a DAC) or analog information to digital (an ADC), it is normal to measure both the device’s internal characteristics and how well it ...

AI’s impact on climate change Implementing AI into defense strategies may exacerbate the very problem we aim to solve: climate change. According to a recent study, data center electricity consumption ...