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August 27, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A long-running Comcast/Xfinity outage problem was traced to aging coax hardware, missing grounding at the service entry, and a splitter setup that pushed upstream DOCSIS 3.1 levels into the high 50 dBmV range.
August 27, 2026 Devices & Products
Advantech has introduced four industrial vision systems built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075, combining up to 100 TOPS of AI performance with multi-camera interfaces for robotics, automation, and surveillance.
August 27, 2026 Artificial intelligence
EDA vendors are using AI to speed up setup, debug, and collaboration around IC signoff, while the final verification engines themselves are kept deterministic to preserve reproducibility and trust.
August 26, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A simple interface idea makes a digital potentiometer advance or decrement as soon as a pushbutton is pressed, not when it is released. The circuit uses RC debounce filtering and a Schmitt-trigger inverter to turn each press into a clean clock edge for the DPOT.
August 26, 2026 Industry & People
The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers of connected products to provide security evidence across the full lifecycle. According to the source, automated workflows are becoming the practical way to manage those compliance demands.
August 26, 2026 Circuit Design & Applications
A reliable 24-V power path depends on combining switching and protection components to handle overvoltage, reverse polarity, and inrush current without compromising operation.
August 25, 2026 Research
Three research projects sketch very different routes for future semiconductor devices: bacterial transistor circuits for environmental sensing, an antiferroelectric two-terminal device that deliberately “forgets” old inputs, and a high-entropy oxide semiconductor with unusually low thermal conductivity.
August 25, 2026 Devices & Products
A case study on a geostationary satellite describes how fiber-optic links can be integrated to operate reliably despite vibration, radiation, and extreme temperature swings in space.
August 25, 2026 Artificial intelligence
AI workloads are moving closer to end devices, while the cloud remains the place for training large language models. The result is a split between localized edge intelligence and cloud-based model development, with implications for latency, privacy, and chip architecture.
August 24, 2026 Manufacturing & Processes
Emerson argues that chip validation is no longer a final checkpoint, but a core part of engineering as chiplets and heterogeneous integration push traditional end-of-line test methods to their limits. The proposed answer is a more connected test infrastructure, paired with AI-based analysis of the resulting data.
August 18, 2026 Artificial intelligence
A review of quarterly results from more than 80 semiconductor companies shows that AI-related demand is no longer limited to a handful of large players. Strongest growth came from AI infrastructure, memory, advanced packaging, test, and leading-edge manufacturing.
August 18, 2026 Devices & Products
Beyond AI performance, the economics of humanoid robots will also depend on common interconnect standards. MIPI interfaces are presented as a way to reduce cabling, power consumption, and system cost.
August 18, 2026 Artificial intelligence
For AI accelerators, packaging is no longer a late-stage enclosure choice. As HBM, chiplets, optical I/O, power delivery, cooling, and test constraints converge, the package increasingly determines which system architecture can actually be built.
August 11, 2026 Supply Chain & Sites
Poorly maintained component libraries can turn into a manufacturing risk, from obsolescence to counterfeit exposure in PCB production.
August 11, 2026 Design & EDA
EDN reports on QUINSIM’s Analog Uncertainty-Aware Design platform, which combines sparse polynomial chaos, copula-based dependence modeling and Sobol sensitivity analysis to estimate yield faster than brute-force Monte Carlo in advanced analog and mixed-signal designs.