Sam Holland at Electronic Specifier interviews Matt Maupin, Product Manager, Silicon Labs about its latest line of products: the BG24 and MG24 system-on-chip families.

Due to the growing number of accidents, eye diseases and people suffering with complete or partial blindness, the need for bionic eyes is becoming more apparent. Data Bridge Market Research predicts that the bionic eye market will reach 425.85 USD million by 2028.  

Dominating much automotive news this week are stories about Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ and Elon Musk’s desire to incorporate Steam gaming into his vehicles.

Commonly accredited to Leo Esaki in the 1960s, spintronics (short for 'spin transport electronics'), aka magnoelectronics, exploits the spin direction of electrons to benefit the power efficiency and memory (processing capabiities) of electronic devices. This article looks at various elements of spintronics, including its applications and most recent developments.

The unpredictable conditions of the construction industry make it hard for automation to take hold. 

On 19th February, 2022, a supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The urban air mobility market is forecasted to reach $12.7bn, and $1.5 trillion in the next 20 years. To get urban aerial mobility (UAM) up and running, eVTOL (electrical vertical take-off and landing) aircrafts must be proven safe and reliable, air traffic management has to be adapted to accommodate, and the public will need to accept them as a new mode of transport.

NewSpace constellations present new challenges for testing satellite communications systems. Innovative measurement solutions are being developed to successfully design, develop and test user terminals, ground stations and satellite payloads. Matt Hammond, Business Development Manager, Aerospace and Defence, Rohde & Schwarz, discusses.

Everyone is talking about the metaverse and what it may bring. A report by Dell Technologies has suggested that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. Statistics such as this may worry recent graduates that fret their newly-acquired degrees are void of use as they can’t learn skills which are not yet even in existence. 

At the heart of all of the technology that powers our world is one element: silicon. It has shaped the course of human evolution, forming integrated circuits and computer processors. But the dawn of a new era of advances in microelectronics may be on the horizon. It is no secret that silicon’s limitations are beginning to rear their heads in R&D labs, leaving many wondering what will replace it. Industrial Journalist Emily Newton discus...

Meta has recently found itself in the limelight of mass hype and publicity. Last year saw the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, expose the company for knowingly ignoring concerns about the dangers of their content.

For this month’s Women in Tech piece, Beatrice O’Flaherty interviewed Nuria Manuel, a Quality Assurance Consultant who recounted her impressive engineering career journey. Rich with experience in a diverse range of fields, Nuria has recently founded her startup, Veriom – a company focused on offering quality assurance to its clients’ software.

Designers can maximise the performance of a wireless device by carefully considering the layout of the RF elements in the design. The most important factor for the surface mount design antenna is the ground plane, which is essential for the antenna to radiate in the chosen bands of operation. Geoff Schulteis, Senior Antenna Applications Engineer with Antenova Ltd, discusses this and other essential design considerations when developing such wirel...

According to the UN, 4.2 billion people live in cities – that’s 55% of the world’s total population. This rapid growth is driven by an estimated 1.3 million people moving from rural areas to cities, every week. As Asem Elshimi, Product Marketing Manager at Silicon Labs discusses, a solution to this is the communications system known as Wi-SUN (Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network).

It’s important to remember that a smartphone is a connected device just like our laptops and PCs, and with that fact come cyber security problems which designers and developers have had to learn from the hard way. This article looks at what makes smartphones vulnerable to hackers and what can be done to reduce the risks.

5G has been a contentious topic for years, critics’ accusations ranging from its ‘cancer-causing’ capabilities to unsubstantiated myths which link it to coronavirus. More recently, however, truth has been discovered in the danger of 5G. Concerns have arisen regarding the latest C-Band service which can interfere with aircraft operations and cause aviation instability.

Expect to see the opening of the next chapter of human space exploration and development in the second half of the decade.

An on-board charger (OBC) handles charging when an electric vehicle (EV) connects to supporting Level 2 electric vehicle supply equipment (or EVSE) through an appropriate charging cable. OBCs provide the critical function of charging the high-voltage DC battery packs in EVs from an infrastructure power grid. Marc Bracken, Technical Marketing Engineer at Automotive Systems, onsemi, discusses the functionality, design considerations, and trends of ...

The next 20 years will see homes changing more than over the hundred preceding them. Homes will expand in the activities they enable and support. Most crucially, with real time integration into the wider environment and economy, homes will increasingly respond to the needs of individuals, societies, economies, and the planet.  This paper examines the potential for the Matter specification to bring in-home interoperability to smart hom...

Recent advances in technology have unlocked unprecedented modalities of capturing the physical world in digital form. One of those modalities is light detection and ranging, or LIDAR.