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January/February 2026

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P08 • The role of advanced displays in robotics | P12 • Rethinking resonators | P16 • Bringing PCBA in-house | P22 • Easily IoT-enable your legacy products

November/December 2025

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The race for the next great semiconductor material p08 | Navigating high-reliability and COTS component sourcing p15 | The key to smarter, safer access control p18 | Why stealing automotive ECU firmware is surprisingly easy:

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September/October 2025

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Oven-controlled crystal oscillators p08 | Crystal oscillator selection for space applications p16 | MCUs that simplify safety-critical applications p20 | True innovation for real-time operating systems p24

July/August 2025

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How AI is changing LabVIEW p12 | Circuit protection for power supplies and electrical equipment p14 | The role of low-power memory in smart wearable medical devices p22 | The evolution of additively manufactured electronics p34

May/June 2025

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AI-driven embedded power design p06 | Navigating the license-exempt RF spectrum p24 | Unleashing the potential of mixed-signal design p32 | Voyant’s CARBON FMCW LIDAR-on-a-chip p34

March/April 2025

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Developing AI applications for the edge p10 | The pivotal role of power management IP p20 | MEMS-based automotive clock SoCs p22 | Cosmic radiation--is it real, or is it science fiction? p28

Jan/Feb 2025

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Heat sink design and selection p08 | The next frontier for wearable audio is to incorporate AI p14 | Bluetooth low energy for IoT connectivity p18 | Automotive software must be roadworthy, too p22

November/December 2024

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Swapping pedal power for wireless power p08 | A compact, easy-to-implement FPGA development option p14 | Enabling chip design verification with hardware-assisted verification p24 | How can autonomous vehicles and robots know exactly where they are? p28

October 2024

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The pros and cons of common enclosure materials p08 | Ceramic thermal bridges p14 | Multicore processors in safety-critical applications p16 | A new direction with Gowin's low-density FPGAs p20

September 2024

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The benefits of FSC for RTOSes p19 | Engineering challenges in modern aerospace applications p24 | When is low cost the right choice for Bluetooth p28 | Evolutions in SWaP-C optimized connectors p31

July/August 2024

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SPE--Over the chasm and into the tornado p08 | Emerging EV architectures p12 | Introducing the Strato Pi Max p18 | Foundry services and ASIC p22

June 2024

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RGB Chip LEDs enhance automotive applications p10 | Electromagnetic interference: Causes and solutions p22 | Emulating the behavior of legacy storage devices p26 | MOSA lessons from FACE p29

May 2024

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Aluminum electrolytic capacitors in DC-to-DC converters p10 | High performance digitisers in semiconductor manufacturing p20 | Bridge mode configuration considerations p26 | FPGA Resets : The forest for the trees p30

April 2024

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From architecture to schematic in 60 seconds p16 | The tried-and-true operational amplifier (op-amp): An overview p22 | Advantages of PLZT capacitors in high-demand applications p24 | Bridging the AI gap with bionic vision p26

March 2024

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If you can't see it, you can't debug it! p08 | Solving FPGA design challenges p12 | Meet the industry's most powerful Arm MCUs p28 | How GDDR informs the future of AI inferencing p32

February 2024

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Reforming embedded systems p07 | Chiplets and the early adopter's dilemma p12 | Reducing the barrier to ASICs with chiplets p16 | New wearables applications are waiting in the wings p24

January 2024

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5G-based LEO satellites will grow IoT adoption p12 | Preparing for the quantum era p16 | The evolution and future of semiconductor IP interconnect p20 | Making AI easy for software developers p28

November/December 2023

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08 - Analog - Protecting against side-channel attacks | 20 - Security - Fighting software piracy | 32 - Smart Cities - Driving smart city innovations | 38 - Artificial Intelligence - Why software is eating hardware

September/October 2023

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12 - Analog Compute - Analog compute for Edge AI | 32 - Programmable Logic - The future of FPGAs is model based! | 34 - Security - Hardware-anchored AI security | 40 - Sensors - Self-biased sensing innovations

July/August 2023

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Looking for some summer fun? | p16 IC Design - Analog IP for ICs | p25 Robotics - Need a (robotic) hand? | p30 Embedded Systems - Unlocking MCU data at the edge | p38 Artificial Intelligence - Preventing extinction with remote AI

May/June 2023

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Cross-Domain Conundrums? | 09 Embedded - There's a new RTOS in town | 26 Artificial Intelligence - Porting ML models to custom AI HWW accelerators | 34 Automotive - Software-defined vehicles are here | 42 Sensors - Non-contact temperature measurement

March/April 2023

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10 - Machine Learning - Avoiding NPU design pitfalls | 27 - Power - Intergrating intelligent power devices | 32 Embedded Software - 12 Fundamentals of embedded software development | 42 - Semiconductors - Meeting the ongoing challenges for SiC devices

January/February 2023

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16 - Printed Electronics - The future of electronics is flexible | 24 - Microcontrollers - MCX delivers the next generation of MCU capability | 34 - Machine Vision - Designing a vision sensor for a world in motion | 38 - Circuit Boards - From design to finished PCB

November/December 2022

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08 Semiconductors - Compound semiconductors are transforming electronics | 12 Connectivity - Ubiquitous connectivity is the future of wireless | 34 Mobile - Improving connectivity and compliance for remote workers | 36 Microcontrollers - Why RISC-V is transforming silicon design

September/October 2022

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12 - Power - Consideration when designing for power | 24 - Thermal - Modern thermal analysis overcomes complex design issues | 28 - Mixed-signal - Heterogeneous compute heralds a new era in chip verification | 30 Microcontrollers - Two-in-one Portenta X8 combines Arduino and Linux

July/August 2022

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08 - Lighting - New designs brought to light with artificial intelligence | 12 - Sensors - Providing humanoid robots with tactile awareness | 28 - Switch Bounce - A 21st century solution to the problem of switch bounce | 34 - Supply Chain - Latest weapons for designers against supply chain distruptions

May/June 2022

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26 - Power - Choosing a rack-mount power supply / 32 - Cobots - How a new generation of cobots is improving the nature of manual work / 36 - Metaverse - Understanding how immersive mixed reality will power the metaverse / 40 - Test Products - MIKROE launches Planet Debug /