Advanced plastic enclosures for medical devices
OKW’s BODY-CASE for wearable personal medical devices, alarm call, location detection, and dose metering. The first thing clinicians and patients see and touch in the case of a medical device…
Considerations when designing for power
System designers often have to choose between standard, custom, and modular power supplies. When designing a system that requires some form of power conversion, the power source (power supply or…
Portenta X8: The two-in-one module combining Arduino and Linux
The X8’s hybrid combination of microprocessor and microcontroller offers developers unprecedented flexibility. The company that fired up the maker movement has strategically grown into a full-fledged industrial partner over the…
3-Phase EMC Filter Series Designed for Machine Safety
SCHURTER expands the FMAC NEO and FMAD NEO 3-phase filter families to meet IEC 60204-1. Downsized for smaller footprint, without any compromise to performance, the two new filter series are…
Heterogeneous compute heralds a new era in chip verification
It is no longer sufficient to simulate analog and digital blocks separately in a “divide and conquer” approach. We are at a time when the computing performance benefits of Moore’s…
Modern thermal analysis overcomes complex electronic design issues
Thermal gradient of a cellphone using the Celsius Thermal Solver (Source: Cadence) By combining finite element analysis with computational fluid dynamics, designers can perform complete system analysis using a single…
SMT heat pipes for thermal management
These novel SMT solutions pre-empt thermal issues in a unique way Thermal management has always been an important part of design but is gaining prominence with the development of wide-band-gap…
Dazed and confused about switches?
Switches are ubiquitous, so why do so few of us use the correct terminology? Even though their underlying technologies are more than 100 years old, electromechanical switches continue to permeate…
Memory Suppliers See Innovation Opportunities – and Challenges
Robert Cooke, CEO at Solidigm The semiconductor memory business thrives on innovation, strategic alliances, and production efficiencies, but the challenges are legion too. In the semiconductor memory business, every innovation…
Silicon Carbide, SEMIKRON, and ROHM Semiconductor
SEMIKRON, headquartered in Nuremberg, and the Kyoto-based company ROHM Semiconductor have been collaborating for more than ten years with regards to the implementation of silicon carbide (SiC) inside power modules.…