This Low-Cost Stopgap Tech Can Fix the Grid

The power surging through transmission lines over the iconic stone walls of England’s northern countryside is pushing the ...

A Tiny Power Module Could Help Solve the World’s Growing Energy Crisis

The world’s energy demand is rising, and NREL’s ULIS power module could help meet it. Demand for energy worldwide is climbing rapidly, driven in part by power hungry data centers that support ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About Analog Compute

Comparing digital compute with analog compute What strides have been taken to make analog a better alternative to digital? How deep neural networks come into play. In 1974, Theodore Nelson, the ...
IEEE

An Analog Payload Trojan via Power-Supply Harmonic Coupling in Front-End Circuits

Abstract: The increase in number of secure systems that rely on integrated circuits (ICs) to perform their functions has exponentially risen over the past several years. Combined with the advent of ...
IEEE

Low Power and High Efficiency Power Management Circuits Based on Flexible LTPO Technologies for Wearable Applications

Abstract: In this paper, a Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide (LTPO) Thin Film Transistors (TFTs) based power management integrated circuits (PMICs), consisting of both charge pump and low dropout ...
EDN

Ignoring the regulator’s reference redux

Christopher Paul reviews Steve Woodward’s “Ignoring the regulator's reference” with a few minor tweaks to optimize ...
EDN

Enabling a variable output regulator to produce 0 volts? Caveat, designer!

Testing a regulator all the way down to zero volts to see how it behaves and finding an output level, below which bad things ...
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Pong debuted on this day in 1972 — Atari's pioneering CPU-less video arcade game’s creation was the result of an engineer training exercise

The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.