EE Times News
NXP Expands Industrial Endpoint Access with MCU Topology Discovery
Published: August 24, 2026, 5:00 pm
NXP’s MCX A5 identifies and maps connected devices to improve network visibility, turning endpoints into accessible sources of real-time data for analytics, automation, and industrial edge AI.
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Radiation Tolerance of Tantalum Polymer Capacitors
Published: August 24, 2026, 2:00 pm
Environments rich in ionizing radiation create a particularly difficult functional challenge for electronic components. Spacecraft, nuclear reactors, particle accelerators, and hardened military equipment (to name a few examples) demand that their electrical systems operate correctly, even in the presence of high energy particles, cosmic rays, X-rays, and the like. Such radiation adversely affects electronics in […]
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Welcome to the Era of Trustworthy AI for IC Signoff and Manufacturing
Published: August 24, 2026, 1:00 pm
Trust is the key to AI adoption in chip design. See how deterministic EDA engines and explainable AI can accelerate signoff and manufacturing.
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HP1800: The Magic of Single-Stage 48V to Ultra-Low Voltage
Published: August 24, 2026, 1:00 pm
HP1800 PWM phase-doubler turns 1 tri-state PWM input to four 180° interleaved complementary outputs. It enables 90–92% efficient single-stage 48V-to-1V AI PoL conversion (vs ~86% two-stage), cutting PCB area 75% and parts 40%. It supports legacy controllers, programmable dead-time, anti-shoot-through logic, 200kHz–2MHz switching to lower data-center power cost.
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Nvidia’s Inference Pivot Reaches Rebellions in Korea
Published: August 24, 2026, 8:07 am
Nvidia is reportedly in talks with Korean inference upstart Rebellions about a technical partnership, investment, or acquisition.
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Hackaday News
3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch
Published: August 25, 2026, 2:00 am
Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely …read more
A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code
Published: August 24, 2026, 11:00 pm
The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture …read more
An Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes
Published: August 24, 2026, 8:00 pm
It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects …read more
At Last, A Gameboy Advance With Decent Audio
Published: August 24, 2026, 6:30 pm
Many pieces of consumer electronics are build down to a price, and the corners cut show up in their performance. The Gameboy Advance from Nintendo is no exception: its audio …read more
Tech in Plain Sight: Vacuum Blood Collection
Published: August 24, 2026, 5:00 pm
If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle goes in, …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Space Invaders for Fruit Jam New Learn Guide
Published: August 25, 2026, 12:15 am
Turn your Fruit Jam into a Space Invaders arcade machine you can hook up to any TV. John Park’s new Learn Guide will show you how! pew pew! 👾 Play a game of pixel-accurate Space Invaders, even when you can’t remember where you put your original 1978 Taito or Midway arcade cabinet. Rather than running […]
Electronic component zero orientation for CAD library construction
Published: August 24, 2026, 9:10 pm
Mentor Graphics Corporation, back in 2010, established a consistent technique for the description of electronic component orientation, and their land pattern geometries, that facilitates and encourages a common data capture and transfer methodology amongst and between global trading partners. IPC, in conjunction with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), have established several standards that are in […]
A dithered QR code generator
Published: August 24, 2026, 8:50 pm
A QR code is really just a way of encoding a few bytes of data in a way that can be easily read from a photo by a smartphone or similar device. They’re designed to be very robust to bad focus, bad printing, funny angles, and missing areas. Exactly how they work isn’t terribly important, […]
Everything about my smart home and homelab setup
Published: August 24, 2026, 8:30 pm
So many people are looking to set up homelabs and also looking to automate their home. But actual examples are not so easy to find. Bruno Rocha writes about his home network and home automation setup is laid out and has changed over time. I’m very satisfied with my hardware and setup choices. As I […]
Celebrating 45 years of Kermit with the first new C-Kermit release in 15 years
Published: August 24, 2026, 7:59 pm
John Goerzen writes on The Changelog that 1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank […]
Electronics Weekly News
IEE Christmas Lectures For Children
Published: August 25, 2026, 12:01 am
Rockets For Christmas was the headline on a story written 66 years ago published in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 30th 1960. The story opens: Research by Rocket and Satellite will […]
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Picture of the Day: Humanoid 3 – 0 Human
Published: August 24, 2026, 3:53 pm
Note must be taken of the historic World Humanoid Robot Games in the Beijing National Stadium. Specifically, the Tiangong Ultra robot surpassing the fastest human's time for a 100m sprint.
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Social Media’s Negative Effects On The Young
Published: August 24, 2026, 1:30 pm
After many legal losses in recent months, Meta is undergoing another trial of a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 29 states in 2023. The lawsuit alleges that Meta […]
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Infineon buys C2i Semiconductors
Published: August 24, 2026, 1:02 pm
Infineon has bought C2i Semiconductors of Bangalore. C2i specialises in software-defined multiphase controllers and smart power stages for AI data center applications. “We founded C2i Semiconductors with the vision of […]
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Quintessent begins sampling single-chip DWDM comb laser
Published: August 24, 2026, 12:42 pm
Following a Series A investment round which raised $40m, optical interconnect startup, Quintessent, is sampling its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) comb laser. Described as a new […]
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