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DFT In Automotive
By Ed Sperling - 13 May, 2026 - Comments: 0

Ensuring automotive chips are reliable, defect-free, and secure adds a whole new dimension to design for testability (DFT). Depending on the safety criticality of a system in an automobile, tests can range from key-on, once a car is started, to safety-critical features that may need to be tested every couple hundred milliseconds during operation. Lee Harrison, director of automotive IC solution... » read more

Wi-Fi 7 Moves To The IoT
By Ed Sperling - 18 Feb, 2026 - Comments: 0

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

Preparing For The Quantum Computing Age
By Ed Sperling - 02 Sep, 2025 - Comments: 1

Within a decade, quantum computers will be able to break virtually any encryption algorithm in use today. What used to be science fiction is on its way to becoming a commercial reality. Once that happens, quantum computers will be able to crack in minutes what was supposed to be unbreakable for more than a century using the most powerful computers available. Erik Wood, senior director of crypto... » read more

Conversing With Your Dishwasher
By Ed Sperling - 12 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

What does "Error 22" mean on your smart appliance? Today, most people have to look it up on the internet, but that's about to change. John Weil, vice president and general manager for Synaptics IoT and Edge AI Processor business unit, talks about how AI can be inexpensively and efficiently utilized by mapping directly to a database using a natural language interface. Unlike today, that informat... » read more

Changes In Motor Control
By Ed Sperling - 17 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Motors are changing in fundamental ways, and you can actually hear the difference. Vacuums, air conditioners, and home appliances are getting quieter. They're also becoming more efficient, able to last longer on a single battery charge or drawing less energy from the grid, and they're becoming more secure. Steve Tateosian, senior vice president for Infineon's IoT, Compute & Wireless Busines... » read more

Why Connectivity Is Changing Microcontrollers
By Ed Sperling - 22 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

More devices are being connected to the internet and to each other, transforming what used to be a simple microprocessor with fixed memory and limited connectivity into a much more complex and versatile device. These new MCUs need more compute power, more memory both on and off-chip, and on-the-fly encryption/decryption. Sivaram Trikutam, vice president of the Wi-Fi product line at Infineon, ta... » read more

Toward Software-Defined Vehicles
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

Speed is everything when it comes to designing automotive electronics, but not in the usual way. In the past, product cycles often lasted five to seven years, from initial design to implementation inside of vehicles. That no longer works as vehicles adopt more electronic features to replace mechanical ones, and as competition heats up over the latest features and nearly instantaneous over-the-a... » read more

MCU Changes At The Edge
By Ed Sperling - 03 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0

Microcontrollers are becoming a key platform for processing machine learning at the edge due to two significant changes. First, they now can include multiple cores, including some for high performance and others for low power, as well as other specialized processing elements such as neural network accelerators. Second, machine learning algorithms have been pruned to the point where inferencing ... » read more

Adapting To Evolving IC Requirements
By Ed Sperling - 07 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

As chip designs become increasingly heterogeneous and domain-specific, packing a device with one-size-fits-all chips or chiplets doesn't make sense. The key is rightsizing different components based on real workloads, so they don't waste power when there is too little utilization of logic, and so they don't struggle to complete tasks because they are undersized. Jayson Bethurem, vice president ... » read more

Sensor Fusion Challenges In Automotive
By Ed Sperling - 02 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

The number of sensors in automobiles is growing rapidly alongside new safety features and increasing levels of autonomy. The challenge is integrating them in a way that makes sense, because these sensors are optimized for different types of data, sometimes with different resolution requirements even for the same type of data, and frequently with very different latency, power consumption, and re... » read more

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