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Rubbery, Stretchable Semis and Sensors Meet Robotic-Hand Needs
Researchers developed rubbery semiconductors for robotic and “smart” skins needed in gesture translation, haptic sensing for robotics, and implantable bioelectronics. It’s possible to make silicon and...
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A Better Way to Build Current Limiters and Circuit Breakers
Silicon-carbide JFETs enable outstanding performance in protection circuits such as current limiters and solid-state circuit breakers. This article looks into the characteristics that make them so...
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It’s now common to see circuit boards that carry hundreds of amps, especially in intensive data-processing applications, electric vehicles, and ac distribution. Despite their designed current-handling...
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LED Lighting: More to It Than You Think
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Infineon Technologies: Today’s lighting systems are dominated by LED technology. Though it seems a relatively simple concept, lighting multiple LED arrays requires special...
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How hard could it be to turn on an LED? Connect the LED in series with an appropriate resistor and hook it up to a dc source with the correct polarity and voilà, instant LED light. Of course, you can...
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Seize the Full Potential from Your Micro Speakers
Due to their size, micro speakers are typically limited when it comes to high fidelity and excursion, often producing a “tinny” audio response. However, a novel smart speaker solution just may help...
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Seize the Full Potential from Your Micro Speakers (.PDF Download)
You’re watching your favorite movie on your tablet, and the sound from the micro speakers comes through with such richness, loudness, and clarity that you almost feel like you’re listening to full-size...
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Clean and Thin Are In: 2D Transistors Get Closer to Reality
By using a nitrogen-filled glove box for some of the processing steps, researchers overcame vexing contact-consistency and performance problems, thus creating FETs that are only two atoms thick....
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5 Buck Regulators with Low Iq
Low quiescent current, also called supply current, might be an important spec for your power-supply design. Quiescent current is the current that a chip needs to operate even if it’s not delivering...
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EPCOS MKD Capacitors Tackle Power Factor Correction
TDK’s DeltaCap X Black Premium series achieves PFC performance of 20 to 44 kVAR per capacitor. TDK Corporation recently introduced DeltaCap X Black Premium—a new series of EPCOS MKD capacitors for...
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Electronic Design Editor's Choice
Check out the latest articles, coming from a variety of sources, that were chosen by Electronic Design editors for you.
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What’s All This Pease Prototype Stuff, Anyhow?
Digging through boxes of the prototype circuits that Bob Pease had amassed over the years proved to be a fun time for all involved. While visiting Texas Instruments in February of 2019, marketing...
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New 8-W Single and Dual DC-DCs Feature Ultra-Low Noise
These converters accept inputs ranging up to 72 V dc and generate outputs to 15 V dc. The 8-W FW8S and FW8D dc-dc converters, developed by Beta Dyne Inc., feature a 2:1 input range and accept 4.5 to 9...
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Redesign Overvoltage Protection to Bolster Reliability and Safety
Learn what types of circuit-protection technologies are required to overcome metal-oxide-varistor limitations in certain harsh environments to increase application reliability and safety. To ensure...
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5 LDO Regulators with High Output Current
High output current, also referred to as Iout, might be an important spec for your low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator. Linear regulators use an internal transistor to control the output voltage. That...
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AI Chip Brings Always-On Alexa to Battery-Powered Devices
Syntiant, a Silicon Valley startup with big name backers like Intel and Microsoft, said its custom chips could be used to push Amazon's Alexa into smaller, battery-powered devices such as wearables and...
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Innovative Breathalyzer Calibration Instrument Blends Optics, Electronics
Conventional calibration of “breathalyzers” is difficult and error-prone. A laser-driven optical-electronic system implements a radically different and more-precise approach to this metrology...
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Automated parking made possible with TI mmWave radar and repurposed...
A complement of new TI mmWave radar sensors and existing ultrasonic and camera systems facilitates the transition from assisted to automated vehicle parking. Major automotive original equipment...
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Enabling automotive proximity with ultrasonic
This video showcases five ultrasonic sensing applications – automated garages/gates, parking spot detection sensors, ultrasonic park assist, wireless charging/EV charging station, and kick to open...
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Comparing capacitive and ultrasonic kick-to-open sensing
Automotive manufacturers are using both capacitive and ultrasonic sensing in “kick-to-open” features and parking-assistance applications.
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