Understanding Ever-Evolving EV Applications Present Challenges
The road to a fully autonomous vehicle is made up of incremental stages. Its primary premise is built on data driving all decisions previously made by humans.
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OTA Software Updates for Your Car?!
Now here's a scary thought: You're driving down the freeway in heavy traffic when the LCD screen in your dashboard that was previously displaying a so
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My Two Bits About 8 Bits
OK, time to own up: With 32-bit MCUs becoming so inexpensive as well as capable, I figured 8-bit MCUs were hanging in there for extended legacy design
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Build Your Own Personal Drone
When I was a boy I loved flying model airplanes. I'd laboriously build them from balsawood kits; cover them with tissue; and add a noisy .049 gas engi
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New Ultra-Low-Power Benchmark
As an editor I've been on the receiving end of a lot of specmanship, which is why I always look to datasheets, though meaningful comparisons of seemin
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Computers on Wheels
In 1984 John Gage at Sun Microsystems promoted the idea that "the network is the computer.� Gage was a bit ahead of his time; the Internet was just ge
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Doing the Low-Power Limbo
Back when they still made vinyl records the Limbo was a popular dance craze. Imported from the Caribbean via Chubby Checker, you'd try to dance yourse
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Low-Power Analog Design
Once consumers discovered they couldn't live without battery-powered handheld devices (aka cell phones), low-power design suddenly became the top priority that it remains today.
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The Internet of Things Hits Its Stride
The current Internet of connected humans through social media is quickly and quietly morphing into an Internet of interconnected objects. In October 2013, IDC predicted that the Internet of...
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New Applications for Energy Harvesting
As mobile phones morphed from wireless analog telephones to handheld computers, users kept demanding more and more energy-consuming features,�� such as web browsing, videos, gaming, and...
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What's Driving Electric Vehicles?
Electric vehicles were all the rage a hundred years ago. They were quiet, reliable, and did not require strenuous manual cranking or shifting. They ran 35 to 50 miles between recharges and some...
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Industry 4.0 - What's That About?
A new method of production is creating a fourth Industrial Revolution.
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