Semiconductors are the building blocks of modern electronics, powering everything from smartphones to satellites. This in-depth guide provides a comprehensive understanding of semiconductors' engineering principles and applications, delving into their fundamental concepts, materials, devices, manufacturing processes, and their impact on today's technology landscape.
Protect sensitive electronics by understanding the current limiting resistor, learning how to calculate appropriate values, and applying them in LEDs, transistors, microcontroller inputs and other circuits.
This guide explains how potentiometer pins interact with mechanical rotation, resistive tracks, and load conditions across various circuit configurations. It provides clarity for both low-power electronic designs and high-precision embedded systems.
This technical article explains the theory behind potentiometer schematics. It shows how to implement mechanical and digital potentiometers in practical circuits, tailored for engineers, and students.
Engineering teams can achieve AI-ready design data with five-level maturity model by Keysight. The unified, traceable data accelerates design cycles, boosts IP reuse, and reduces costly re-spins.
Source transformation is the method of converting a voltage source with series resistance into an equivalent current source with parallel resistance (and vice versa). This guide explains the theory, math, circuit examples, and practical applications for modern digital and hardware engineers.
Resistors are the quiet regulators of electronic circuits. They shape current, set voltages, bias transistors, protect components, and stabilize signals. This article breaks down the physics of resistance, explores modern resistor technologies, and offers practical guidance.
Many beginners may be confused about the Solder Mask Layer and Paste Mask Layer because they share some similarities. In this article, we will introduce the differences between solder masks and paste masks, enabling beginners to gain a better understanding.
Ground is the reference point that makes voltage meaningful and the return path that allows current to flow. This article explains what is ground in a circuit, discusses different types of grounds, and shows how to implement effective grounding strategies
Article #6 of our Industrial IoT revolution series: Antennas are devices enabling wireless communication by interconverting electrical signals and electromagnetic waves.
Article #1 of our Industrial IoT Revolution Series: As the power requirements and operating frequencies of electronic components rise, new interconnecting technologies are required to cater to the ever-growing demand.
Engineers at EPFL have developed a method for reading several qubits – the smallest unit of quantum data – at the same time. Their method paves the way to a new generation of even more powerful quantum computers.
The semiconductor manufacturing field employs a range of etching techniques to craft intricate patterns and structures on material surfaces, with dry etching and wet etching being primary methods.
According to leading trade publication, Enterprise IoT Insights, more than 80 percent of OEMs in the asset tracking space are releasing products for cellular IoT low power wide area networks (LPWANs). Also, LTE-M trackers have high growth as mobile operators roll out LTE-M networks.
Despite specific industries experiencing slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, projections in the Bluetooth technology market are optimistic through the remainder of 2021 and beyond.
Silicon wafers are thin slices of highly pure crystalline Silicon, used in the production of integrated circuits. This article delves into the fascinating world of silicon wafers, unraveling their production process, unique properties, and the wide range of applications that make them indispensable.
Puntozero redesigned the cold plate of the power electronics of Dynamis PRC’s electric race car for additive manufacturing. The result was a 25% lighter liquid-cooled heat sink and bioinspired flow guides that increased the heat transfer surface area by 300%.
The article covers the basics of TinyML, a technology that improves the privacy, energy efficiency, affordability and reliability of devices utilising artificial intelligence. Be a part of TinyML for good, an online event and showcase of ideas that aims at exploring the topic in more detail.
Understanding forward bias vs reverse bias configurations in diodes, exploring the theoretical aspects, implementation, applications, and considerations while noting the key differences between forward bias vs reverse bias operating modes in diodes.