Microchip's New MCU: A 32-bit Upgrade That Still Fits Old 8-bit Systems

• Microchip’s PIC32CM PL10 MCUs combine 32-bit Cortex-M0+ performance with AVR pin compatibility, MVIO, and functional safety support.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 103 words

Nanoscale SCE: Electrostatic Challenges and FinFET/GAA Mitigation Solutions

• Learn how scaling beyond Dennard’s limits triggered short-channel effects (SCE) and why transitioning from FinFET to Gate-All-Around (GAA) architectures is vital for 2 nm control

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 116 words

Silanna Semiconductor's FirePower ICs Boost and Charge, All on One Chip

• Silanna’s SL2001 and SL2002 laser-firing ICs integrate resonant charging and high-current drive for LiDAR and rangefinding applications.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 104 words

STMicroelectronics Claims First Automotive MCU with Edge AI Acceleration

• The new MCU includes a dedicated neural processor and phase-change memory to boost performance in X-in-1 architectures.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 105 words

TI to Acquire Silicon Labs, Plus Other News in the Semiconductor World

• A cluster of early February deals pulled wireless MCUs, clocking IP, analog sensors, and AI-driven inspection software into larger platforms spanning IoT, automotive, industrial,

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 120 words

Vishay Adds 1200 V SiC MOSFET Power Modules in SOT-227 Packages

• The five 1200 V SiC MOSFET power modules support up to 200 A for automotive, energy, and industrial systems.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 107 words

SPAD Imaging, Renesas 3-nm TCAM Technology, LoRa Alliance 2025 Report: Embedded Week Insights

• Here’s a roundup of this week’s must-read articles. • We’ll delve into the latest developments on SPAD Imaging, Renesas 3-nm TCAM Technology, and LoRa Alliance 2025 Report! • Als

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 227 words

SPAD Imaging, Renesas 3nm TCAM Technology, LoRa Alliance 2025 Report: Embedded Week Insights

• Here’s a RoundUp of this week’s must-read articles - we’ll delve into the latest developments on SPAD Imaging, Renesas 3nm TCAM Technology, and LoRa Alliance 2025 Report! • Also,

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 261 words

Burning power lines

• There was one heck of a scary item in the news recently. • The following screenshots were taken from a video that was recorded in the teeth of recent inclement weather. • Overhea

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 246 words
Automate Resistor Identification and Sorting using Arduino UNO Q

Automate Resistor Identification and Sorting using Arduino UNO Q

• A maker shared an electronics project on Digikey that explains an automatic system for recognizing and organizing resistors using anArduino Uno Q. • Zach Hipps did the work and l

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 259 words

Logarithmic amplifiers: A quick tour of theory and practice

• In this post, we will take a gentle dive into logarithmic amplifiers-commonly known as log amps-those quietly powerful circuits that work behind the scenes to decode exponential

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 288 words
EEVblog 1735 - Power Rail Probing & Oscilloscope DC Offset EXPLAINED

EEVblog 1735 - Power Rail Probing & Oscilloscope DC Offset EXPLAINED

• EEVblog 1735 - Power Rail Probing & Oscilloscope DC Offset EXPLAINED EEVblog5 days agoEEVblog,Oscilloscopes,Tips & AdviceComments Offon EEVblog 1735 - Power Rail Probing & Oscill

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 270 words

Singulation-Literally Cutting Edge-Is Gaining More Importance for Wafer Fabs

• Singulation, or wafer dicing, is essential for isolating individual chips in IC manufacturing. • Traditional mechanical sawing can damage delicate wafers, affecting yield and per

Electronics & EE · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 163 words

Mikroe Introduces EnOcean 5 Click Board

• The EnOcean 5 Click , a new wireless connectivity Click board developed by Mikroe, provides a two-way communication interface for sensors, switches, and actuators based on the En

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 263 words

Automotive high-side driver withstands cold crank

• ST’s VNQ9050LAJ 4-channel high-side driver controls 12-V automotive ground-connected loads via a 3-V and 5-V CMOS-compatible interface. • Operating from 4-V to 28-V with typical

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 201 words

Embedded capacitors improve AI/HPC power delivery

• Empower has launched three embedded silicon capacitors (ECAPs) for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) processors. • The portfolio includes the EC2005P (9.34 μF in a 2×2-mm p

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 217 words

Samsung leads with HBM4 DRAM performance

• Samsung has begun mass production and commercial shipments of its HBM4 DRAM, marking what it describes as an industry first. • Built on Samsung’s 6th-generation 10-nm-class DRAM

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 247 words

Software accelerates 3D interconnect design

• The Keysight Chiplet 3D Interconnect Designer automates the design of 3D interconnects for chiplet and 3DIC advanced packages. • By removing time-consuming manual steps, the tool

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words

Navitas tightens SiC losses with refined TAP

• Navitas Semiconductor has announced its 5th-generation GeneSiC platform featuring high-voltage trench-assisted planar (TAP) SiC MOSFETs, describing it as a significant advancemen

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 258 words

Renesas Demonstrates Configurable 3-nm TCAM

• Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced the development of a configurable ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) implemented using a 3-nm FinFET manufacturing process. •

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 238 words

Renesas Demonstrates Configurable 3nm TCAM

• Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced the development of a configurable ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) implemented using a 3 nm FinFET manufacturing process. •

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 272 words

Using integration and differentiation in an oscilloscope

• Modern digital oscilloscopes offer a host of analysis capabilities since they digitize and store input waveforms for analysis. • Most oscilloscopes offer basic math operations su

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 195 words

Preemptive utilities shutdown oversight: Too much, too little, or just right?

• Preventing fires and other calamities by proactively shutting off power in advance of inclement weather is dependent on forecast precision; customers’ needs should also be a cons

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 280 words

Renesas Advances 3-nm Automotive SoC Technologies

• Renesas Electronics Corporation has developed three system-on-chip (SoC) technologies aimed at automotive multi-domain electronic control units (ECUs), combining AI acceleration,

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 206 words
A DIY Cinema Camera Built Around a Raspberry Pi

A DIY Cinema Camera Built Around a Raspberry Pi

• When it comes to filmmaking, cinema cameras are often one of the most expensive and unavoidable pieces of equipment. • This reality has led many independent creators and engineer

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 276 words

AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment

• Every major computing era has been defined not by technology, but by a dominant workload-and by how well processor architectures adapted to it. • The personal computer era reward

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 191 words

Breaking the Thermal Wall Using Monolithic Ceramic Cooling for Power Electronics

• Learn how monolithic ceramic cooling using Selective Laser Reaction Sintering (SLRS) eliminates the ’thermal wall’ in high-density power electronics by creating single-piece, rel

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 28 words

Microsoft Rolls Out Next Inference Accelerator to Boost AI in Azure

• The company devised the new Maia 200 inference accelerator to improve cost and performance for AI inference processing in Azure Cloud Services.

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 25 words

LoRa Alliance 2025 Report Highlights LoRaWAN Growth

• The LoRa Alliance® , the international organization responsible for the open LoRaWAN® standard for low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), has published its 2025 End of Year Repor

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 245 words
DIY Raspberry Pi Pico Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

DIY Raspberry Pi Pico Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

• Text-to-Speech, or TTS, is a technology that converts written text into spoken audio. • It is widely used in voice assistants, accessibility tools, alert systems, kiosks, and sma

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 197 words
The Tiny Desk Robot Packed with Real-Time Information

The Tiny Desk Robot Packed with Real-Time Information

• This is an open-sourcedesk robotbuilt around the ESP32-C3 Mini and a small OLED display. • The ESP32 provides Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing the robot to fetch real-time weather da

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 214 words

Silly simple supply sequencing

• Frequent contributor R. • Jayapal recently shared an interesting Design Idea (DI) for power supply control and sequencing in MCU-based applications that combine analog and digita

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 282 words

AI in 2026: Enabling smarter, more responsive systems at the edge

• As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its momentum across the electronics ecosystem, 2026 is shaping up to be a defining year for edge AI. • After years of rapid advancement

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 226 words
What It Takes to Make a Chip: India's Semiconductor Scene through InCore's Lens

What It Takes to Make a Chip: India's Semiconductor Scene through InCore's Lens

• ‘Everything starts with the product definition,’ is how G. • Madhusudan, CEO and Co-Founder of InCore Semiconductors, began walking us through the complex web of players that bri

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 354 words

AMD Intros Mid-Range FPGAs Targeting Intelligent, High-Performance Designs

• Announced today, the new FPGAs build off of AMD’s existing ecosystem with modernized memory, I/O, and security.

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 39 words

IBM & Ansys Detail Results From DARPA Thermonat Thermal Modeling Program

• The research program aims to improve heat-prediction accuracy at the nanoscale while reducing simulation time for advanced semiconductor design.

Electronics & EE · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 43 words

Passive RC circuit produces gain

• Could a simple passive RC network without any transformers, inductors, switches, or non-linear components produce a voltage gain? • Wow the engineering world with your unique des

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 154 words

Raspberry Pi Introduces Its First HAT Product for Generative AI

• Raspberry Pi’s new AI HAT+ 2 adds higher-performance neural acceleration and memory support to extend generative workloads on Raspberry Pi 5.

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 47 words

Build a practical 400 mA linear Li-ion charger with visible CC-CV behavior

• Linear Li‑ion charger delivers 400 mA constant current from a 5 V supply, then switches to 4.217 V constant voltage. • Dual‑loop control uses a PNP pass transistor, with inner cu

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 114 words
Simple Self-Timing Electric Motor Built from Scratch

Simple Self-Timing Electric Motor Built from Scratch

• A maker recently demonstrated how to build a fully functionalself timing electric motorusing only basic electronic components, nomicrocontrollers,motor drivers, or brushes requir

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 248 words

Six critical trends reshaping 3D IC design in 2026

• AI compute is scaling at ~1.35× per year, nearly twice the pace of transistor scaling. • Thus, the semiconductor industry has reached a hard inflection point: if we can’t scale d

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 18, 2026) · 2 min · 241 words

Six critical trends reshaping 3D IC design in 2026 and beyond

• AI compute is scaling at ~1.35× per year, nearly twice the pace of transistor scaling. • Thus, the semiconductor industry has reached a hard inflection point: if we can’t scale d

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 147 words
EEVblog 1734 - Uni-T UT892 2000V High Voltage Multimeter TESTED

EEVblog 1734 - Uni-T UT892 2000V High Voltage Multimeter TESTED

• EEVblog 1734 - Uni-T UT892 2000V High Voltage Multimeter TESTED EEVblog1 week agoEEVblogComments Offon EEVblog 1734 - Uni-T UT892 2000V High Voltage Multimeter TESTED873 Views Fa

Electronics & EE · February 17, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 289 words

Microchip, Hyundai Partner on 10BASE-T1S SPE

• Microchip Technology has announced a partnership with Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) to investigate the implementation of advanced in-vehicle network solutions utilizing 10BASE-T1S Si

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 241 words

Laser driver ICs cut power losses by 70%

• Silanna Semiconductor’s FirePower laser driver ICs, introduced in 2025, for LiDAR and rangefinder applications are now available in production quantities. • The SL2001 and SL2002

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 306 words

Perusing a LED-based gel nail polish UV lamp

• This engineer doesn’t use nail polish, but his wife does. • And he deals with plenty of PCBs. • What do these things have in common? • Speaking of LEDs that lose their original i

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 148 words
This DIY Build Cuts Human Reaction Time by 10% - Touch of a Cyborg?

This DIY Build Cuts Human Reaction Time by 10% - Touch of a Cyborg?

• A split second can decide who wins and who loses and thisDIYproject proves that even milliseconds can beengineered. • By building acompact sensor rig with affordable electronic c

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 240 words

Eddy current in focus: A rapid revisit

• Eddy currents are not just textbook curiosities; they are the hidden loops that appear whenever metal meets a changing magnetic field. • From DIY levitation tricks to clever brak

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 141 words
How to Build an ESP32-C3 Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

How to Build an ESP32-C3 Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

• Text-to-Speech, or TTS, is a technology that converts written text into spoken audio. • It is commonly used in voice assistants, accessibility tools, alert systems, kiosks, and s

Electronics & EE · February 14, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 198 words

Agentic AI Chip Design, Networking Chip, Edge AI: Embedded Week Insights

• Here’s a roundup of this week’s must-read articles. • We look into the latest developments on Cadence Agentic AI, Cisco’s Silicon One G300 Switch, Microchip’s full-stack edge AI

Electronics & EE · February 14, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 230 words

How SPAD Imaging Improves Perception in Industrial Robotics

• Industrial robotics systems are increasingly deployed in environments that are less predictable and more dynamic than those assumed during development. • Tasks once engineered ar

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 276 words
How to Add a Loudspeaker to LiteWing ESP32 Drone for Wireless Audio Announcement

How to Add a Loudspeaker to LiteWing ESP32 Drone for Wireless Audio Announcement

• In this project, we upgraded LiteWing, an ESP32-based development drone by adding a lightweight Bluetooth speaker system to extend its capabilities beyond flight. • By adding a s

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 282 words

Safe operating area

• Any semiconductor has limits on how much voltage, how much current, and for how much time combinations of voltage and current can be supported in normal usage. • Sometimes that i

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 120 words
Turn Your ESP32-S3 Into an AI Assistant With MimiClaw

Turn Your ESP32-S3 Into an AI Assistant With MimiClaw

• A community project calledMimiClawhas released software that lets anAIassistant run on ESP32-S3microcontrollerboards and respond to commands sent via the Telegram messaging app.

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 248 words

A tutorial on instrumentation amplifier boundary plots-Part 2

• The first installment of this series introduced the boundary plot, an often-misunderstood plot found in instrumentation amplifier (IA) datasheets. • It also discussed various IA

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 160 words

Tasking Announces Integrated Embedded Software Toolchain

• On the first anniversary of its acquisition of LDRA, Tasking has announced the availability of its integrated toolchain. • Following the successful unification of LDRA and Taskin

Electronics & EE · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 254 words

AI-powered MCU elevates vehicle intelligence

• The Stellar P3E automotive MCU from ST features built-in AI acceleration, enabling real-time AI applications at the edge. • Designed for the next generation of software-defined v

Electronics & EE · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 131 words

Gate drivers emulate optocoupler inputs

• Single-channel isolated gate drivers in the 1ED301xMC121 series from Infineon are pin-compatible replacements for optocoupler-based designs. • They replicate optocoupler input ch

Electronics & EE · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 213 words

IC enables precise current sensing in fast control loops

• Allegro Microsystems’ ACS37017 Hall-effect current sensor achieves 0.55% typical sensitivity error across temperature and lifetime. • High accuracy, a 750‑kHz bandwidth, and a 1‑

Electronics & EE · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 205 words

Microchip empowers real-time edge AI

• Microchip provides a full-stack edge AI platform for developing and deploying production-ready applications on its MCUs and MPUs. • These devices operate at the network edge, clo

Electronics & EE · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 239 words