Inside Electronics

Timing in Electronic Systems

Advanced MEMS timing solutions have emerged that offer advantages to legacy solutions, helping to reduce the size and power consumption in IoT devices with smaller oscillator packages and integrated features that reduce component count. Piyush Sevalia, Executive Vice President of Marketing at SiTime talks about how the company's timing devices keep everything in sync with greater dynamic stability.

Wrapping Up CES 2025

Electronic Design Technology Editor Cabe Atwell and Senior Content Director Bill Wong attended this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This podcast highlights half a dozen technologies and products that stood out. Here's the list:
Ambarella – AI-enhanced SoC handling 25 vision language model (VLM) streams 
TDK – mini-laser image projection into eyeball
Ocutrx – virtual reality for surgeons
1NCE – cellular IoT solution for everyone
Bluetooth SIG Auracast and Channel Sounding
ECM PCB Stator Tech – PCB-based electric motors
Green Hills Software – Multi-IDE debugging and trace software 

Today’s Challenging Product Development Environment

Manufacturers must face the rigors of a fast-paced marketplace, adapting to not only technology issues but also changing consumer trends for functionality and product performance. Bringing new products into the marketplace is complicated by regulatory bodies in various markets, as many are now stricter on compliance and standards of quality. In this episode, we talk to Gustavo Sepulveda, Robotics and Automation Business Head at Panasonic North America, about developing a product in today’s electronic engineering ecosystem. 

Not All RISC-V IP Is the Same

RISC-V is just an instruction set definition albeit one that can be incrementally defined and spans functionality from an integer-based system to one that sports floating point, virtual machine and vector extensions. Things get more interesting when looking at the implementations of a RISC-V core. Different implementations can offer features from multiple execution units to out-of-order execution.  

Empowering Smart-Home Devices with Low-Light Energy Harvesting

The proliferation of connected devices promises to revolutionize consumer, commercial, and industrial applications, but they require continuous power, which until now has meant batteries that must be replaced or recharged. Ambient Photonics is addressing both the low power density and high-cost problems of legacy technologies with powerful low-light energy harvesting solar cells. In this episode, we talk to Joshua Wright, VP of Engineering at Ambient Photonics, about the smart home and how his company's technology can empower it. 

Addressing the Increasing Data Demands on Server-Farm Cabling

The amount of data that a server farm, regardless the size, must manage is tremendous. This data management challenge is not just at the board level, it is also a challenge in the cables and interconnect between the modules and their racks. Point2 Technology offers its e-Tube technology, which overcomes the limitations of conventional copper cabling while eliminating the power, latency, and cost of optical solutions to provide multi-Terabit interconnectivity.

State of the Art in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

The promise of wide-bandgap semiconductors like Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) are finally being manifested in advanced products and solutions for power electronics. In this episode, we talk to Andy Smith of Power Integrations about the latest developments in the space. 

Breaking Down the Wide-Bandgap High-Voltage Power Marketplace

The power electronics industry has been thrown into a state of disruptive evolution with the advent of wide-bandgap semiconductors and the resulting advanced circuit topologies. In this episode, we talk to Guy Moxey, the VP of Power Development at Wolfspeed, about the state of wide-bandgap power electronics. 

Building 800 G Copper Cables Using the Right Retimers

400 G copper cables make up the bulk of connections in data centers these days with 800 G and 1.6 T on the horizon. Active electrical cables (AECs) are a requirement for copper cabling  
In this episode of Inside Electronics, William Wong talks with Point2 Technology's David Kou about AECs including their new Point2 P1B121 integrated, eight-unidirectional SerDes with smart Clock Data Recovery (CDR) and retimer functions that support 112G PAM4 needed for 800 G copper cabling.  

Thoughts and Observations from electronica 2024

In this episode, Alix Paultre will talk about his impressions and thoughts from the recent electronica show in Munich, Germany. From the hot topics to the cool technology, the show had a lot of interesting elements.