Mark Adams of The AMP Group explains why power is presenting a new design challenge for the industry, and how it’s being addressed. The word ‘digital’ has been adopted by... Read More

Low energy consumption has replaced performance as the foremost challenge in electronic design. Performance is important, but it must now accede to the energy capacity of batteries and even the... Read More

New data analysis technique distinguishes active from passive fluctuations inside cells. Inside every living cell, internal structures are continuously moving about. Under a microscope, organelles such as the nucleus, mitochondria,... Read More

Harness real-time performance and the rich features of Linux. Embedded systems usually fall into one of two categories: those that require hard real-time performance and those that don’t. In the... Read More

How data and drones are helping farmers take care of their crops. Mapping tools, data-collecting drones, and sensors are just a few pieces of technology playing integral roles in farm tech,... Read More

Water filters of the future may be made from billions of tiny, graphene-based nanoscrolls. Each scroll, made by rolling up a single, atom-thick layer of graphene, could be tailored to... Read More

There are a lot of changes going on in the environment in which analog design gets done. In the past, a lot of analog designs were relatively small designs in... Read More

In the next decade, there will be tens of billions of connected devices—from thermostats and cell phones to parking meters and cars. Increasingly, these connected devices that make up the... Read More