With increasing demand for high-power fast charging in electronic devices, the USB Power Delivery (USB PD) protocol has become the most widely employed charging protocol for modern smart devices.

When testing a device that converts digital information to analog (a DAC) or analog information to digital (an ADC), it is normal to measure both the device’s internal characteristics and how well it ...

Synchronization and Timing The alpha and omega of every real-time application are appropriate timing, synchronization, and deterministic system response. Special attention must be given to these ...

Each column is composed of two bitlines, “+” and “-“, connected to their respective sense amplifiers used to read/write data to/from the cells. Both read and write operations are performed on a ...

At the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco last December, TSMC introduced its 2nm process technology, highlighting ...

Creating the foundation for the eDP interface eDP was first introduced in late 2008 as a simplified version of DisplayPort for internal displays. The main goal was a common display interface that ...

The embedded market survey has been tracking trends in embedded systems since the early 1990s. The last study was in 2019 and subsequently missed some years due to the pandemic. The latest 2023 study ...

The UART, or universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, is one of the most used device-to-device communication protocols. This article shows how to use a UART as a hardware communication protocol by ...

Languages and libraries The CrowPanel ESP32 can be programmed using a wide range of programming languages and libraries available online, each with specific characteristics that make it suitable for ...

As described in the first part of this two-part series, USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, ...

Lidar sensors emit light photons in the infrared spectrum to detect and create a 3D image of the surrounding environment. They are proving extremely popular in automotive applications. The main ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has an impact on numerous industries, from automation to robotics, from electronic design to medicine, with innovative ...