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Scaling ADAS To 10+ Cameras
By WonBae Bang - 18 Jun, 2026 - Comments: 0

By WonBae Bang, KiDong Sim, Weilung Lu, and Adrian Arcedera Introduction Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are increasingly adopted by automotive manufacturers to enhance driving safety. These systems help drivers in the driving process, thereby increasing car and road safety. ADAS technologies include features such as adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning and automatic emer... » read more

Silicon Photonics: Integrated Grating-Based Antennas for Optical Phased Arrays (MIT)
By Technical Paper Link - 12 May, 2026 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper, "Reduced-crosstalk antennas for grating-lobe-free and wide-field-of-view integrated optical phased arrays," was published by researchers at MIT. Abstract "Integrated optical phased arrays (OPAs) have emerged as a promising technology for many applications due to their ability to dynamically control free-space optical beams in a compact and non-mechanical manner. How... » read more

The Specialty Device Surge Part 3: Solving The Process Control Challenges Of MEMS, Photonics, Co-Packaged Optics, And More
By Christopher Haire - 12 May, 2026 - Comments: 0

Every day, consumers rely on an invisible network of specialty semiconductor devices without realizing it. The smartphone in your pocket is a good place to start. It knows when you rotate the screen thanks to MEMS sensors, and its camera delivers crisp images through advanced CMOS image sensors. Meanwhile, fast charging technology, wireless connectivity, facial recognition, and high-frequency c... » read more

Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly
By Liz Allan - 07 May, 2026 - Comments: 0

Key Takeaways Humanoid robots are rapidly expanding beyond factories and logistics toward broader, general-purpose roles (including in-home assistance), driven by advances in AI and sensing. Compared with vision and language, touch (haptics) and hearing/voice in real environments remain the hardest — and most commercially important — sensing challenges, requiring fast sensor fusio... » read more

Why Hardware Monitoring Needs Infrastructure, Not Just Sensors
By Nir Sever - 13 Apr, 2026 - Comments: 0

Chipmakers need comprehensive hardware monitoring, with monitors (Agents) and sensors distributed throughout their devices, to manage the growing complexity and scale of modern SoCs. As designs now incorporate billions of transistors, multiple power and clock domains, and advanced process technologies, traditional characterization, test, and guard-banding approaches no longer provide sufficient... » read more

The Specialty Device Surge Part 2: The Process Control Challenges Of MEMS, Co-Packaged Optics, And More
By Christopher Haire - 07 Apr, 2026 - Comments: 0

In a world where high-bandwidth memory, GPUs, and advanced AI packages are all the rage, it is easy to forget the important role specialty devices play. These unsung heroes of modern life perform critical functions across a wide range of industries, including automotive, telecommunications, data centers, emerging AI hardware ecosystems, and consumer electronics, just like the smartphone in your... » read more

Enabling Physical AI and Robotics: Platform for the Intelligent Edge
By Synaptics - 01 Apr, 2026 - Comments: 0

Physical AI has emerged as an essential technology driving the future of robotics — it closes the loop between perception, reasoning, and action in the real world using powerfully trained AI models. But for robots and autonomous machines, that loop only works well if it runs where the world is actually sensed: at the Edge. Instead of streaming raw sensor data to a data center for interpretati... » read more

Detect, Diagnose, And Debug Using Sensors And Functional Monitoring
By Hari Mani - 26 Mar, 2026 - Comments: 1

By Hari Mani, Henrique Mendes, and Robert Wilcox Modern AI workloads drive an extremely "spiky" power profile where current demands surge to hundreds of Amps within nanoseconds, clashing with the tighter operating ranges of advanced process nodes as they push below 0.8V. This creates a physical bottleneck: the on-die power delivery network (PDN) cannot sustain the instantaneous curren... » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 24
By Jesse Allen - 24 Mar, 2026 - Comments: 0

Dual-modulated transistor Researchers from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) and University of Cambridge designed dual-modulated vertically stacked transistors in which two gates, positioned above and below in a sandwich-like structure, control the channel through different mechanisms. The lower electrode contains microscopic openings to allow electric signals to p... » read more

Analysis of the Evolving Landscape of Ultra-low-power Edge AI Processors (U. of Austria, ETH Zurich)
By Technical Paper Link - 17 Mar, 2026 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper, "Performance Analysis of Edge and In-Sensor AI Processors: A Comparative Review," was published by University of Austria and ETH Zurich. Abstract "This review examines the rapidly evolving landscape of ultra-low-power edge processors, covering heterogeneous Systems-on-Chips (SoCs), neural accelerators, near-sensor and in-sensor architectures, and emerging dataflow a... » read more

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