With increasing demand for high-power fast charging in electronic devices, the USB Power Delivery (USB PD) protocol has become the most widely employed charging protocol for modern smart devices.

One of the most important aspects to consider in hardware testing that involves radio frequency (RF) is choosing a configurable, calibrated, and reliable signal source. This article provides a ...

Synchronization and Timing The alpha and omega of every real-time application are appropriate timing, synchronization, and deterministic system response. Special attention must be given to these ...

When testing a device that converts digital information to analog (a DAC) or analog information to digital (an ADC), it is normal to measure both the device’s internal characteristics and how well it ...

At the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco last December, TSMC introduced its 2nm process technology, highlighting ...

The embedded market survey has been tracking trends in embedded systems since the early 1990s. The last study was in 2019 and subsequently missed some years due to the pandemic. The latest 2023 study ...

The UART, or universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, is one of the most used device-to-device communication protocols. This article shows how to use a UART as a hardware communication protocol by ...

Compounding the need to supply power to high-voltage process tools is the need to guarantee a perfect clean room environment for them. Maintaining a clean room and its process tools at a specific ...

The Raspberry Pi is a flexible piece of hardware for creating various projects and performance monitoring is essential for its efficient operation. This article introduces a graphical user interface ...

Languages and libraries The CrowPanel ESP32 can be programmed using a wide range of programming languages and libraries available online, each with specific characteristics that make it suitable for ...

Lidar sensors emit light photons in the infrared spectrum to detect and create a 3D image of the surrounding environment. They are proving extremely popular in automotive applications. The main ...

Each column is composed of two bitlines, “+” and “-“, connected to their respective sense amplifiers used to read/write data to/from the cells. Both read and write operations are performed on a ...