Special Report

Shedding Pounds In Automotive Electronics
Weight is suddenly a major concern for carmakers, but slimming down has repercussions.

Top Stories

Finding Defects In Chips With Machine Learning
Better algorithms and more data could bolster adoption, particularly at advanced nodes.

Domain Expertise Becoming Essential For Analytics
More data doesn’t mean much unless you know what to do with it.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that the focus is shifting from how much data a company controls to what can be done with that data, in New Battleground In The Data Race.

Delta ASIC’s Gert Jorgensen describes how to build an artificial eye for less than $2, in Chips That See.

National Instruments’ David Vye demonstrates how to combine circuit and electromagnetic simulations for antennas with multiple feeds, in MIMO And Phased-Array Antennas For 5G.

Optimal Plus’ Randy Hierbaum explains why reducing the rate of defective parts calls for a whole new quality paradigm, in The 3 Main Obstacles To Zero DPPM And How To Overcome Them.

Advantest’s Judy Davies contends that the decentralized ledger technology isn’t just for cryptocurrencies anymore, in Blockchain Technology Is Coming To An Application Near You.

News

Nvidia To Buy Mellanox For $6.9B
All-cash deal adds data-center chips to Nvidia’s portfolio.

Sponsor White Papers

Home Automation IoT Company Cuts ASIC Testing Costs
Here’s how smart-home company digitalSTROM saved on testing its proprietary ASIC.

The Basics Of Amplitude Modulation
Learn about amplitude modulation (AM)—one form of analog modulation.