Consumer Electronics
AI at the edge: It’s just getting started
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly to the edge. This generalization conceals many more specific advances—many kinds of applications, with different processing and memory requirements, moving to different kinds of platforms. One of the most exciting instances, happening soonest and with the most impact on users, is the appearance of TinyML inference models embedded at…
SiC SBDs: The Game Changer in Power Electronics
– Advertisement – Step into the future of power electronics where SiC SBDs revolutionise efficiency and performance in high-power applications. In the rapidly evolving field of power electronics, Silicon Carbide Schottky Barrier Diodes (SiC SBDs) are establishing themselves as superior alternatives to traditional silicon-based diodes in high-power applications such as Interleaved Power Factor Correction (IPFC)…
CES 2025: Moving toward software-defined vehicles
Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are a big theme at CES this year, shifting vehicles from hardware-centric upgrades to over the air (OTA) software upgrades. In order to do this, vehicle subsystems must rely on a, more or less, generic processing platform that can perform a wide variety of functions to serve the various aspects of a…
Our Focus Is On Supporting Innovation And The New Trends In Semiconductor Packaging
– Advertisement – Being the key market for adhesives, India’s semiconductor and electronics manufacturing ecosystem is attractive. Speaking to EFY’s Yashasvini Razdan, Ram Trichur, Global Market and Strategy Director of Henkel Adhesive Technologies, got candid about what they bring to India. Ram Trichur – Market Segment Head of Semiconductor Packaging, Henkel Adhesive Technologies Q. How…
2024 in Retrosparktive – News
This Friday, we take a look back on 2024 to see the best products, videos, blogs, and more! Favorited Favorite 0 As another year comes to a close, we at SparkFun can’t help but look back at all we’ve accomplished in 2024. From groundbreaking new products that pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, to insightful…
2024: A year’s worth of interconnected themes galore
As any of you who’ve already seen my precursor “2025 Look Ahead” piece may remember, we’ve intentionally flipped the ordering of my two end-of-year writeups once again this year. This time, I’ll be looking back over 2024: for historical perspective, here are my prior retrospectives for 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (we skipped 2020). As…
What is Quadband? – News
We recently released the RTK Postcard, capable of quadband reception. Today we’re gonna talk about what quadband is, why multiband reception is great for accuracy, and what other products we have that can get you there. by [redacted] December 31, 2024 4:53 pm UTC 1 Favorited Favorite 0 We’ve got a lot of products that…
A Bluetooth receiver, an identity deceiver
In mid-October 2015, EDN ran my teardown of Logitech’s Bluetooth Audio Adapter (a receiver, to be precise) based on a CSR (now Qualcomm) BlueCore CSR8630 Single Chip Audio ROM. The CSR module covers the bulk of the bottom half of the PCB topside, with most of the top half devoted to discretes and such for…