Designing An Efficient And Low-Noise Power Supply For Sensors And Encoders

By Maxim Integrated - 30 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Smart, accurate sensors and encoders are bringing new levels of intelligence to automated industrial equipment. Indeed, the smart factory is being realized across a variety of manufacturing landscapes, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Enabling these compact sensors and encoders to perform reliably requires a high level of power efficiency. This paper discusses why conventional power manag... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing

By Susan Rambo - 26 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Security The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Synopsys as the main contractor to provide SoC design tools and security IP for its Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program. The four-year program’s goal to develop a design tool and IP ecosystem to automate adding security into integrated circuits. Synopsys will be working on a research team with ... » read more

Challenges In Building Smarter Systems

By Ed Sperling - 23 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to define what the edge will look like with Jeff DeAngelis, managing director of the Industrial and Healthcare Business Unit at Maxim Integrated; Norman Chang, chief technologist at Ansys; Andrew Grant, senior director of artificial intelligence at Imagination Technologies; Thomas Ensergueix, senior director of the automotive and IoT line of business at Arm; V... » read more

ESD Requirements Are Changing

By Bryon Moyer - 11 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 1

Standards for specifying a chip’s ability to withstand electrostatic discharge (ESD) are changing – in some cases, getting tougher, and in others, easing up. ESD protection has been on a path from a one-size-fits-all approach to one where a signal’s usage helps to determine what kind of protection it should get. Protecting chips from ESD damage has been a longstanding part of IC design... » read more

Fundamental Changes In Economics Of Chip Security

By Ed Sperling - 10 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Protecting chips from cyberattacks is becoming more difficult, more expensive and much more resource-intensive, but it also is becoming increasingly necessary as some of those chips end up in mission-critical servers and in safety-critical applications such as automotive. Security has been on the semiconductor industry's radar for at least the past several years, despite spotty progress and ... » read more

Challenges In Making Better Medical Sensors

By Susan Rambo - 09 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Now that COVID-19 pandemic has desensitized us to telemedicine and more at-home health monitoring, the way we receive health care probably has changed for good. The no-touch thermometer and our personal pulse oximeter are not just coveted gadgets now. They have true clinical use in what may become a “point-of-use” system. Point of use means we don’t have to go to the clinic to get screene... » read more

Don’t Underestimate The Multiphase Buck Voltage Regulator

By Reno Rossetti - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Step-down (buck) voltage regulators have long been the preferred DC-DC conversion electronic workhorse thanks to their inherently high efficiency. Only in buck mode the current is directed to the output during the entire cycle. The higher delivery of current to the output, per cycle, makes the buck converter the most efficient architecture. As one of many examples, modern microprocessors, from ... » read more

What Makes A Chip Tamper-Proof?

By Bryon Moyer - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 5

The cyber world is the next major battlefield, and attackers are busily looking for ways to disrupt critical infrastructure. There is widespread proof this is happening. “Twenty-six percent of the U.S. power grid was found to be hosting Trojans," said Haydn Povey, IAR Systems' general manager of embedded security solutions. "In a cyber-warfare situation, that's the first thing that would b... » read more

Conflicting Demands At The Edge

By Ed Sperling - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Meeting The Power Management Challenges Of The Smart Grid

By Maxim Integrated - 03 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

This white paper reviews the challenges of the modern power distribution grid. Utilizing better power management techniques can improve the design of energy distribution automation systems, resulting in higher energy availability, serviceability, predictive maintenance, as well as fault detection, isolation, and mitigation. Learn new ways of power management to improve the design of automation ... » read more

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