2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (692+ words) Voice of the Engineer There’s a lot you can potentially do to boost your WAN’s downstream and upload speeds, as well as to minimize its latency. But only if your service provider lets you. This is my final post in…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (259+ words) Voice of the Engineer New smart phones, earbuds and watches, this year with an added dash of memory price increases. It’s September in Cupertino again. Not because, I suspect, Cook’s got anything against product launches, although after having fronted so…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (263+ words) Voice of the Engineer A new flash cost calculator helps OEMs identify potential savings and explore alternative storage strategies for flash chips at a time when market conditions are putting growing pressure on memory costs. The calculator reduces component costs…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1741+ words) Voice of the Engineer Sampling faster relaxes that filter. The reason designers do not simply sample much faster is the cost on the other side: a higher sampling rate means a more expensive converter and more data for the downstream…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (595+ words) Voice of the Engineer The simplest explanation is likely the best, even if its validity isn’t always intuitively obvious in advance. Speaking of USB-C, and the cables (including splitters) that connect to it to other things… In conjunction with my…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1285+ words) Voice of the Engineer Coolant level sensors may seem small, but they guard against big failures. In this Fun with Fundamentals entry, we break down how these devices keep engines—and engineers—from losing their cool. On a blazing summer…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (223+ words) IP core provides scalable JESD204C connectivity EDN - Voice of the Engineer - Aspencore network News & Analytics Products Design Tools About Us Achronix now offers a JESD204C IP core for connecting high-speed ADCs and DACs to programmable logic in Speedster7t FPGAs. Each core supports data…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (857+ words) Voice of the Engineer Spacechips has been asked by its clients many times, “Which is the best device?” The answer? “It depends”. Payload manufacturers are increasingly exploiting the SWaP (size, weight, and oower) advantages of single-chip, multi-channel transceivers, combining DSP…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (743+ words) Voice of the Engineer Does the addition of Apple smart home protocol support necessitate hardware augmentation and upgrade, or do firmware-delivered feature updates suffice? After pausing my TP-Link smart plug teardown publication cadence in May, I temporarily paused again in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (167+ words) Voice of the Engineer Quectel’s 4G SH602FA and 5G SE505FE smart modules feature built-in Android 16 to accelerate industrial and commercial IoT development. The modules enable developers to build connected products such as handheld terminals and inspection devices with rich user interfaces and enhanced multimedia…...