Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum

By the time Voyager’s primary mission ended with Voyager 2's 1989 Neptune encounter, earthlings had the 80486, the Gameboy ...
Hackaday

4-bit Single Board Computer Based On The Intel 4004 Microprocessor

Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and ...
Nanowerk

Electric fields create working logic circuits from atomically thin materials

Electric-field-assisted assembly enables scalable, lithography-free fabrication of logic circuits using 2D semiconductors. It ...
EDN

PWM buck regulator interface generalized design equations

A step-by-step guide for applying an old DI that used simple circuits for PWM programming of standard bucking-type regulator ...
EDN

Automating FOWLP design: A comprehensive framework for next-generation integration

Fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) is becoming a critical technology in advanced semiconductor packaging, marking a ...
Electronic Design

Cirrus Logic to Co-Invest with GlobalFoundries in BCD Process Technology

With the semiconductor industry under threat from new tariffs, the companies said the BCD chips will be able to be manufactured at GF’s main U.S. fab. Cirrus Logic announced it will expand its ...
EE World Online

Embedded computing module combines programmable logic and multi‑core processing

Acromag has introduced the XMC‑FZU7EV module, an embedded computing solution built around the AMD (Xilinx) Zynq UltraScale+ ...
Design-Reuse

Rapidus 2HP Reportedly Surpasses Intel 18A Logic Density Impacted by BSPDN, Rivals TSMC

Rapidus 2HP is reported to reach a logic density of 237.31 MTr/mm², nearly matching TSMC's N2 at 236.17 MTr/mm², according to sources cited by the report. The report further highlights that both nodes ...
Geeky Gadgets

How to Design and 3D Print Projects with Tinkercad : Beginner Friendly

Have you ever imagined turning your ideas into physical objects with just a few clicks? Thanks to tools like Tinkercad, what once seemed like science fiction is now an accessible reality for anyone ...
IEEE

Reducing Transistor Count in CMOS Logic Design Through Clustering and Library-Independent Multiple-Output Logic Synthesis

Abstract: We propose a novel transistor-level synthesis method to minimize the number of transistors needed to implement a digital circuit. In contrast with traditional standard cell design methods or ...
Electronics Weekly

Embedded Systems

Equipped with four independent 100BASE-KX Ethernet channels, the TXMC391 is a conduction-cooled switched mezzanine card (CCXMC) for mission-critical and industrial environments. It conforms to ...