New FPGA Conference and Exhibition Coming to the UK and USA

If you have anything to do with the design and deployment of FPGA-based products and systems, then this is your lucky day because I’m poised to tell you about a new FPGA-centric conference and exhibition that’s heading your way. With events scheduled in both the UK and the US, this bodacious beauty will focus solely on FPGA designers and developers. No executive daydreaming, corporate fairy … Read More → "New FPGA Conference and Exhibition Coming to the UK and USA"

Shifting Left and The Road Ahead for Software Defined Vehicles

This week’s podcast is all about how shifting left can enable software defined vehicle innovation. My guests Wensi Jin from MathWorks, Thomas Hülshorst from FEV.io and I chat about the demand for software defined vehicles today, the engineering challenges associated with SDVs and why it is important to adopt a shift left mentality when it comes to SDV innovation.</ … Read More → "Shifting Left and The Road Ahead for Software Defined Vehicles"

Plug-in Replacement APDs Dramatically Boost the Performance of Optical Systems

On the off chance you were wondering, the city of Sheffield in England boasts two main seats of learning: Sheffield University (a.k.a. the University of Sheffield) and Sheffield Hallam University. The latter was formerly known as Sheffield Polytechnic. This was deep in the mists of time when I wore a younger man’s clothes and studied for my degree at that august establishment.

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AI Co-Processors, NPUs and The Future of Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence

This week’s Fish Fry is all about AI inference, NPUs and the Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI Co-Processor! My guest is Amol Borkar from Cadence and we are chatting about the latest trends in AI inferencing, why there is a greater need now for AI co-processors than ever before and the multitude of benefits that the Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI Co-Processor can bring to your next design.</ … Read More → "AI Co-Processors, NPUs and The Future of Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence"

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Reliability: Basics & Grades
Reliability is cornerstone to all electronic designs today, but how reliability is implemented and determined can vary widely by different market segments. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton and Sam Accardo from the YAGEO Group explore the definition of reliability for electronic components, investigate the different grades of reliability offered by the YAGEO Group and the various steps that the YAGEO Group is taking to ensure the greatest reliability of their components.
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Libby's Lab Scopes out Phoenix Contact Trio 3 Power Supplies

Sponsored by Mouser Electronics and Phoenix Contact

Join Libby and Demo in this episode of “Libby’s Lab” as they explore the Phoenix Contact Trio 3 Power Supplies, available at Mouser.com! These DIN-rail power supplies are great for providing solid, stable power in a variety of applications. Keep your circuits charged and your ideas sparking!

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Posted on Aug 5 at 6:02am by Max Maxfield
I had never heard this nugget of knowledge before -- thank you for sharing it
Posted on Aug 4 at 10:37am by jackrubin
Hi Steve - great to see your byline! Stop by more often.
Posted on Aug 1 at 6:26pm by traneusee
Back in the 1950s germanium-transistor era, radio hobbyists could connect two crystal radios to one antenna. The first radio was tuned to the strongest station, and its output was used to power a one-transistor amplifier. The second radio was tuned to a weak station, and the transistor would amplify the ...
Posted on Jul 31 at 11:20am by Max Maxfield
The main thing is that we're enjoying ourselves :-)
Posted on Jul 31 at 10:42am by JK
Yea, well the idea of my dishwasher (or my wood stove!), not being able to be used until I get a software update (or pay a mandatory subscription fee), doesn’t thrill me as much as you’d think it would. Thanks to the standard amoral silicon valley ethics, and ...
Posted on Jul 31 at 8:12am by Max Maxfield
"If we were talking about a real AI system then the system is motivated." There are stories about a Gen AI that was fed misleading data, indicating that one of its creators was having an affair, embezzling money, or something similar. It was then led to believe that this creator ...
Posted on Jul 29 at 2:21pm by JohnSanders
If we were talking about a real AI system then the system is motivated. This means it knows about its own survival ie needs and emotional states. It is generally regarded that this is main cause of AI's running amok. Because we (Humans and AIs) compete for the same (or ...
Posted on Jul 25 at 6:51pm by traneusee
Allen B. Dumont introduced oscilloscopes mid 1930s. Radio development did not need oscilloscopes. Television development needed oscilloscopes. Signal generators existed from the beginning of radio. Galvanometers are even older.
Posted on Jul 25 at 4:43pm by traneusee
My apology for posting the same comment twice. I was trying to perserve breaks between paragraphs.
Posted on Jul 25 at 4:38pm by traneusee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_B._DuMont#Cathode-ray_tube_and_oscillograph states that DuMont started marketing recurrent-sweep oscilloscopes in 1934. Tektronix offered their first triggered-sweep oscilloscope in 1947. Radio development did not need oscilloscopes, as signals could be listened to. Television development needed recurrent-sweep oscilloscopes to observe video and sweep waveforms. ...
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On-board Battery Charger & DC-DC Converter
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Qorvo Accelerating Matter Product Development with Qorvo QPG6200
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Smarter Isolation for Smarter Power Systems
Sponsored by Mouser Electronics and Bourns
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Simplifying Position Control with Advanced Stepper Motor Driver
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