Steve Rogerson looks at recent developments and trends in automotive sensors for ES Design magazine.

  Printing sensors is one way to make them cheap enough for widespread IoT applications, and Europe is leading the way in developing this technology, Sally Ward-Foxton writes for ES Design magazine.

We are entering a new era in networking, where processing is being pushed to the edge and nodes are starting to look more like networks in their own right. Philip Ling, Editor, ES Design magazine, reports.

  As the connected world increasingly becomes a reality in industrial set-ups, there is danger they are becoming more vulnerable to attack. Steve Rogerson looks at the risks for ES Design magazine.

  Today’s motor control products increasingly come with a variety of supporting material, including free algorithms, to help speed up time to market. Sally Ward-Foxton reports for ES Design magazine.

    Efforts to ease software development now extend to user interfaces, as Philip Ling discovers for ES Design magazine.

The rate of improvement in trench MOSFETs may be slowing down but, as Steve Rogerson found out, there are still some fighting the battle.

Thanks to a new process, a CMOS RF power amplifier has matched the performance of GaAs devices for the first time, resulting in new possibilities for reconfigurable RF front ends, reports Sally Ward-Foxton.

The quest for smaller, faster, cheaper integrated devices really drives the semiconductor industry from a commercial point of view; an ever-present burden on developers working on the next great process breakthrough. Philip Ling reports for ES Design magazine.

There is growing anticipation that graphene will soon emerge as a replacement for silicon, fuelled by its outstanding promise. Now, a lack of progress towards monolithic integration may have turned an important corner thanks to the latest R&D breakthroughs, as Philip Ling reports.

Reporting for ES Design magazine, Steve Rogerson looks at the methods for testing and verifying PCB layouts containing mixed-signal and analogue components.

GaN and Silicon really shouldn’t go together but several companies are making it work in order to reap the cost benefits, as Sally Ward-Foxton reports.

  In this ES Design magazine article, Sally Ward-Foxton discusses how processing power can help make hearing aids more attractive to the hearing impaired.

Implementing innovative memory solutions may help add stability to the power/performance balancing act developers must not endure when selecting a new MCU. Philip Ling, ES Design magazine Editor, explores the issues further in this article.

A recent spate of revised 32bit microcontrollers hints at the increasing importance of connectivity, but at the cost of ultra-low power. ES Design magazine Editor, Philip Ling reports.

Sally Ward-Foxton reports on the latest developments in the world of RF test from European Microwave Week in Nuremberg.

Harvesting wasted thermal energy can power sensor and monitoring systems in an energy-efficient way. In this article from ES Design magazine, Sally Ward-Foxton speaks to thermoelectric generator company Nextreme about the technology’s potential.

Sensors are becoming more prolific as the Internet of Things seeks to connect machines and other inanimate objects with the internet, but the supporting technologies are just as important, as Sally Ward-Foxton finds out in this article from ES Design magazine.

With software now viewed as the differentiating factor for many new developments, running on what is increasingly thought of as ‘commoditised’ hardware, the industry is now looking closer at ways to abstract the hardware features needed for early software optimisation, as ES Design magazine Editor Philip Ling discovers.

A new movement in the US is seeking to bring back DC power distribution at the building level, which can help reduce power losses. Sally Ward-Foxton discovers more in this interesting article from ES Design magazine.