Scale-up optics will be decided by the link budget. The largest recoverable losses sit at the connector and inside the silicon photonics platform.

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The white paper introduces Keysight SOS Enterprise as an AI-ready engineering data and IP management platform designed to help semiconductor and electronics companies centrally manage, govern, and secure design data across global teams. It provides version control, IP traceability, role-based access, and audit-ready governance to ensure design integrity, improve reuse, reduce risk, and enable advanced […]

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Solar PV installations rely on ongoing monitoring to maintain energy yield, uptime and safe operation throughout their working life. This application guide explains how insulation degradation can create leakage paths between the PV circuit and earth, how insulation resistance (RISO) measurements can help identify developing faults, and why readings should be assessed in the context […]

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For engineers working on long-lifecycle systems such as aerospace and defense platforms, industrial controls, medical devices, and transportation infrastructure, obsolescence is a recurring, costly certainty. A part that is active today can be flagged for discontinuation years before the system it powers is scheduled to retire, forcing a familiar, expensive choice: redesign around a new component or rush to secure enough inventory to bridge the gap.  Rochester Electronics is combating […]

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Mechanical relay vs. solid-state relay for thermostat design: compare lifespan, switching speed, power loss, EMI, and PCB space using the MP9566.

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A typical response to the previous article on why PLA filament is so darn brittle. This has led some people to not use PLA filament at all, while others promote …read more

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all kinds …read more

A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position. [Steven Bennett] saw that lamp and wanted …read more

Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one place to another. But in order to operate …read more

A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS, a project with its roots in the 1990s which is doing a pretty good job of creating an open source …read more

What started as a quick weekend build for Glen Akins turned into a full circuit board design project over at bikerglen.com. The plan was simple: print the 3D files for a WOPR-style LED rack mount filler panel found on MakerWorld, slide in a dozen 8×8 MAX7219 LED matrix modules already on hand, and flash some […]

Pink Propeller made a pocket sized solar powered ESP32-C3 e-reader. Check out the build video on YouTube and the project on GitHub. Check out the Adafruit Learning System to learn how to run CircuitPython on the Xteink X4 eReader, how to use the Adafruit Universal USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer Charger and how […]

Wanting a workbench that had the practicality of a shop surface but the look of living room furniture, a maker documented turning IKEA Kallax shelving units into a pair of sturdy office workbenches. Custom furniture came in around 1,000 € per unit and kitchen cabinets did not offer good-looking sides or a workable layout, so […]

Wilson Harper set out to learn KiCad and ended up with a battery-free PCB business card that lights up 21 LEDs when tapped against a phone, powered entirely by harvested NFC energy. The card pairs an NXP NTAG I2C Plus, which routes excess DC voltage out to external hardware, with a 3mm x 3mm ATtiny816 […]

Picking the wrong GPIO on an ESP32 can turn a perfectly good project into a board that refuses to boot, and figuring out which pins are safe usually means digging through datasheets and forum posts. ESP32 Pinout Studio is a free interactive pinout reference covering the whole ESP32 family, and it puts each pin’s real-world […]

Tendeg, the antenna specialist, has released NewTEN, its two-axis steerable reflector antenna for small spacecraft. It was showcased at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City. Reflector […]

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Much of the AI economy still looks suspiciously circular. Hyperscalers are  investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data center using Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia partially invests its billions […]

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A new kind of transistor – the  Intrinsic Polarisation Super Junction ( iPSJ) has been invented to deal with the propensity of GaN transistors to fail at very high voltages. […]

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Nvidia is buying $3.5 billion of MediaTek’s convertible bonds in a deal by which they commit to use each other’s products. “Nvidia’s networking ecosystem is now part of MediaTek’s supply […]

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