Philip Lechner's career in electronics distribution has spanned 33 years, including 13 years as a field sales engineer covering power, semiconductors and IP&E, and 20 years in product management for power supplies and DC/DC converters for Avnet Abacus. In...

Insights | By Philip Lechner | 03-09-2015

Philip Lechner's career in electronics distribution has spanned 33 years, including 13 years as a field sales engineer covering power, semiconductors and IP&E, and 20 years in product management for power supplies and DC/DC converters for Avnet Abacus. In...

Educational | By Philip Lechner | 03-09-2015

The efficiency of power inverters is one of the most critical aspects of the design and a key feature for solar and wind applications. By Prasun Kulshrestha and Miguel Mendoza, Microchip Technology. The power inverter is a widespread application for operating...

By Microchip | 02-09-2015

Following many years of proposals and discussions within the European Union, the EU-wide’  eCall’ automatic-emergency-call alert system is now coming to a car near you. eCall is a system that provides an automated message to emergency services from a vehicle i...

Articles | By Sven Etzold | 27-08-2015

Following many years of proposals and discussions within the European Union, the EU-wide’  eCall’ automatic-emergency-call alert system is now coming to a car near you. eCall is a system that provides an automated message to emergency services from a vehicle i...

Insights | By Sven Etzold | 27-08-2015

Getting a few more percentage points of efficiency from a DC/DC supply is challenging, but a two-stage converter with a dynamically optimised intermediate bus voltage offers a solution. By Alan Elbanhawy, MaxLinear Achieving efficiency in DC/DC power supply co...

By Alan Elbanhawy | 24-08-2015

What is claimed as the world’s first 32Gbytes 48-layer BiCS FLASH device with a three-dimensional (3D) stacked cell structure has been developed and launched by the Toshiba Corporation. It features triple-level cell (TLC) technology which is a type of solid-st...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 18-08-2015

What is claimed as the world’s first 32Gbytes 48-layer BiCS FLASH device with a three-dimensional (3D) stacked cell structure has been developed and launched by the Toshiba Corporation. It features triple-level cell (TLC) technology which is a type of solid-st...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 18-08-2015

Alpha Micro’s Nick Pummell compares the performance and cost of Sigfox and GSM networks for carrying IoT data. As the concept of the IoT gathers momentum, embedded developers are busy architecting their designs to join together the myriad of sensors, actuators...

By Nick Pummell | 17-08-2015

The amount of data that will be swirling around planet Earth is set to explode during the final years of this decade and will reach the biblical proportion of around 44zettabytes (ZB). To put that in perspective 1zettabyte is the data equivalent of 250 billion...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 12-08-2015

The amount of data that will be swirling around planet Earth is set to explode during the final years of this decade and will reach the biblical proportion of around 44zettabytes (ZB). To put that in perspective 1zettabyte is the data equivalent of 250 billion...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 12-08-2015

In the age of constant connectivity, our mobile phones have become almost an extension of ourselves. But have you ever stopped to consider the potential health implications of keeping your phone in your trouser pocket? The question may sound peculiar, but a gr...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 10-08-2015