Edge And Micro Data Centers: Powering The Real-Time Digital World


The modern world no longer runs on delayed responses. It runs on immediacy. When a self-driving vehicle identifies a pedestrian, when a factory robot adjusts production in milliseconds, or when an augmented reality overlay appears instantly during remote surgery, there is no tolerance for latency. These applications demand data processing that happens almost at the speed of human reflexes. B... » read more

Learnings From The Polish Energy Sector Attacks


On 29 December 2025, coordinated cyberattacks targeted Polish energy infrastructure. The attacks coincided with severe winter weather and appear to have aimed at disrupting heat supply to end users by targeting renewable energy farms. The attackers succeeded in disabling controllers linking generation and distribution facilities but, thankfully, were unable to halt electricity production. Th... » read more

A Guide To Fast Switching GaN Challenges And Solutions


Gallium nitride (GaN) is an ideal material for applications requiring high switching speeds and minimal power losses. While the wide-bandgap material can certainly improve a system’s overall efficiency, it can also be more vulnerable to spurious turn-ons and other design challenges. That’s what makes top-of-the-line packaging, such as Infineon HiRel’s new PowIR-SMD, critical in space powe... » read more

Electronic Warfare: Vying for Control of the Electromagnetic Spectrum


Over the past decade, preeminent countries involved in major military conflicts mainly focused on asymmetrical warfare — surprise attacks by small groups armed with modern, high-tech weaponry. During that same period, however, near-peer adversaries began attaining impressive electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. As a result, a plethora of new, dynamic threats flooded the EW spectrum, pushing ... » read more

System-level Reliability Verification for 2.5D/3D ICs Using Innovator3D IC and Calibre 3DPERC


The increasing demand for higher performance, lower power, and greater functionality in smaller packages has driven the rapid adoption of 2.5D and 3D Integrated Circuits (ICs). However, the inherent complexity of these multi-die architectures presents significant reliability verification challenges that traditional 2D flows cannot adequately address, particularly concerning electrostatic discha... » read more

Multi-Channel Ultra Ethernet TSS Complete Layer


In the data center environment, the servers, storage and AI/HPC clusters need to move confidential data quickly and securely. Traditionally, RDMA is used as a transport protocol along with the network security based on MACsec and IPsec ESP protocols. To improve efficiency of using Ethernet in AI/HPC systems, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium introduced the new, IP-based transport protocol (UET), al... » read more

Wi-Fi 7 Moves To The IoT


Wi-Fi 7 has been a staple in high-end applications such as notebook computers and AR/VR glasses for the past couple years, where high-speed connectivity and low latency are essential. Known alternatively as IEEE 802.11be, and Extremely High Throughput Wi-Fi, it is starting to migrate downstream into IoT devices such as smart door locks, thermostats, and robotic vacuum cleaners. But the reason i... » read more

Securing Hardware For The Quantum Era


Key Takeaways: Quantum threats to security are already real. Adversaries are already harvesting data that will be decrypted later by quantum computers. Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC may arrive as early as next year. Asymmetric encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC will become inadequate against quantum threats, while symmetric encryption (such as AES) is less vul... » read more

Modern Trends In Floating-Point


The requirement to support real numbers in computers has existed for as long as computers themselves, yet has always been a more complicated challenge than it at first appears. Why? Because computer-based representations can only represent a finite subset of the continuum of real numbers. Consequently, they can only ever be considered an approximation – thereby demanding a diligent understand... » read more

Six 3D-IC Design Trends That Secure The AI Era


By Pratyush Kamal and Todd Burkholder Greater functionality, performance, and speed are in great demand in pervasive computing, RF, and automotive electronic systems, as well as most everything else. Complexity continues to skyrocket, leading many to say we are officially in the post-Moore’s Law world. In his seminal 1965 paper, “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits,�... » read more

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