If you’re looking to improve efficiency, boost performance, and future-proof your power systems, here are nine reasons why you should explore onsemi’s SiC solutions.

Taking the flexible approach to power conversion circuit design

By Philip Ling - December 6, 2024

For a design engineer, everything can look like an application. And as any engineer will confirm, your design choices are always application-dependent.

How multiprotocol devices with increased security are changing the IoT

By Philip Ling - November 29, 2024

The IoT has been evolving for more than two decades and we’ve been talking about security for just as long.

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Advanced solution for kiosk devices with ARM architecture

November 22, 2024

CUSTOM S.P.A. seamlessly transitioned to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on ARM64 for multiservice kiosks

The world's first 4 mOhm SiC JFET for circuit protection

Why your next relay or fuse could be a transistor

By Philip Ling - October 8, 2024

We now have semiconductor substrates that can handle extremely high voltages and currents. But do transistor-based switches still have a place in the high-power domain?

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Making more efficient on-board chargers

By Philip Ling - October 8, 2024

The entire world is transitioning toward the electrification of everything, and the most impactful areas are where fossil fuels currently dominate.

The chips are down for chip down design in small to medium volume applications

By Harvey Wilson - September 16, 2024

This article will compare the two approaches and show why module-based design is the best solution for the majority of small and medium volume applications.

Arduino Pro Q&A

By Harvey Wilson - September 16, 2024

Below, we answer key questions about the Arduino Pro series, highlighting its role in industrial applications, its capabilities, cloud integration, and the ease of developing machine learning models on the edge.

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Kits not bits - fast tracking edge AI development with ease and no risk

By Harvey Wilson - September 16, 2024

This article looks at how these modules have evolved from development tools, for teaching and prototyping, to enterprise-quality components that can simplify your product development while meeting industrial standards.

Accelerating the Development of “Smart” Industrial Equipment

By Harvey Wilson - September 16, 2024

This article elaborates challenges before discussing how the Arduino product portfolio and ecosystem accelerates time to market.

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Defect visual inspection using AI enables multiple emerging markets

By Michaël Uyttersprot - August 8, 2024

Machine vision is enabling many existing and emerging markets. Security, manufacturing and industrial automation all use machine vision. Adding artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing at the sensor provides many benefits. Industrial automation combines ...

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How will Matter help us meet the smart home promise?

By Walter Puhl - August 8, 2024

The smart home has been hyped in the media since the term was first coined by The American Association of Home Builders in 1984. But the idea goes back to 1975 and the introduction of the X10 communications protocol, which was designed for data communicat...

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How 48V systems are supporting fully electric vehicles

By Philip Ling - July 22, 2024

The automotive supply chain for 48V subsystems has seen increased demand from mild hybrids. With the same solutions now going into plug-in hybrid and full battery electric vehicles, 48V is an active market segment.

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Electrifying efficiency: Michael Luett on how STMicroelectronics is revolutionising car electrification applications

By Avnet Staff - July 16, 2024

Here, we talk to Michael Luett, Automotive Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics (ST) and the latest contributor to Electrify Tomorrow, our exclusive webinar series, about some of the latest trends in power electronics.

Bright, brighter, brightest? Why a display backlight system is more than meets the eye

By Avnet Staff - June 27, 2024

The human eye doesn’t perceive light in a linear way. So, if you’re looking to achieve a super-bright result, your display will need a huge amount of energy – in fact, more than double the cost of a standard display.

Colour, style and shape: the art of coverglass

By Avnet Staff - June 27, 2024

How many times have you touched a glass screen today? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? More? Unless you’re actively monitoring your screen time, it’s barely even a consideration. But the kind of glass you interact with matters.

ePaper integration with PCAP

By Avnet Staff - June 27, 2024

Electronic paper (also known as e-ink, electrophoretic display, or electronic ink) is a kind of electronic display that mimics the appearance of ink on paper.

Understanding trade-offs for DC-DC converters in EV charging

By Avnet Staff - June 24, 2024

Within EV fast charging technologies, focus is on the crucial role of DC-DC converters in enabling efficient energy transfer. The design will be influenced by the primary commercial objective.

How is AI changing the electronics industry?

By Philip Ling - May 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence has the potential to influence every part of any company. As a trusted partner and leader in technology, Avnet has a responsibility to its customers and suppliers to consider the impact of AI from all angles.

Why AI and embedded design share the same DNA

By Philip Ling - May 22, 2024

Intelligence comes in many forms. More of us are interacting with devices that appear to understand us. What and how they understand depends on the technology inside. How are embedded engineers implementing intelligence?

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Why AI must redefine processor architectures

By Philip Ling - May 22, 2024

Artificial neural networks are complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional arrays of interconnected numerical values. Executing the math behind those connections is at the heart of AI. This math is unlike any other in the digital domain.

Bringing mm-wave beamforming to new applications

By Steven Fireman - April 9, 2024

With 5G rolling out and the help of phased array antennas, the 30 to 300 GHz, and specifically the millimeter-wave bands, of the RF spectrum are making their way into applications like autonomous driving.

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Learn how AI and the latest CPM technologies optimize patient rehabilitation

By Avnet Staff - February 21, 2024

Continuous passive motion (CPM) is now a critical part of patient rehabilitation. New technologies, including artificial intelligence, are helping medical OEMs take the next step to optimize patient therapy.

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Using sound to capture medical data boosts device innovation

By Harvey Wilson - February 21, 2024

Wearable medical devices provide continuous body monitoring. Acoustic sensing is non-intrusive and the data supports early diagnosis and remote analysis. Are the stethoscope’s days numbered? That’s not likely, but new device opportunities abound.

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Designers lead advances in CT scanning field

By Avnet Staff - February 21, 2024

High resolution and low dose are two of the latest developments in computed tomography equipment used by medical professionals. Looking inside tells us how these innovations are being achieved.

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When GaN is too fast for your application, consider SiC instead

By Avnet Staff - February 21, 2024

The best power converters are not always the ones that switch the fastest. Gallium Nitride (GaN) switches faster than other power transistors, but sometimes it is too fast. Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs may sometimes be a better option.

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Safer, targeted approaches to treat atrial fibrillation

By Avnet Staff - February 21, 2024

Pulsed field ablation is a bold approach to treating atrial fibrillation. The control required is extreme, leading to innovative solutions and newly patented technologies gaining attention from doctors, patients and OEMs.

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Hitting the triple bottom line drives sustainable design

By Philip Ling - December 6, 2023

Sustainability at a corporate level continues to gain attention. Commercial success comes with social responsibility, something referred to in business as the triple bottom line and represented by the three Ps: profit, people and planet.

Ethernet evolution: The rise of SPE and TSN in automotive and industrial applications

By Harvey Wilson - September 14, 2023

IT professionals quickly recognized the benefits of networking computers and peripherals as the burgeoning computer industry established itself in the 1980s. However, making it a reality was another matter...

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What’s new in mmWave and 5G SoCs and modules?

By Avnet Staff - August 24, 2023

This article looks at recent developments in mmWave and 5G modules and systems-on-chips (SoCs), and the benefits they represent to product development teams working at both the board level and system level of design.