Editor’s Perspective

Maker vs. designer vs. engineer — what’s the difference?

The terms maker, designer, and engineer can often refer to the same people, but the distinctions are

Solar eclipse 2017: my first-hand account of witnessing totality

Some millions of people in North America positioned themselves on August 21 to catch a total eclipse of the sun. I was one of them. It was worth the

Semiconductor consolidation: a harbinger of where electronic design is heading

Here is a sneak peek at the segments that have triggered much of the action in the chip industry’s acquisition

Electronic product design is bypassing electronics design, creating opportunity for non-EEs

With fully functioning hardware compute platforms like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi on the market, development teams can build highly capable systems while focusing

Is the data center the next iPhone for the chip business?

The data center is the next growth driver for the chip industry after personal computers and smartphones. And it impacts almost every facet of semiconductor

PCIM 2017 in a nutshell

This was the year at PCIM that saw the evolution of wide-bandgap technology and its uptake by design engineers into actual

The supercharged IC market: a harbinger of IoT boom

The boom-and-bust cycles are all too familiar in the technology business. But while market busts are noisy and chaotic, booms are often

Integration and doing more with less

Two key trends in managing power of mostly asleep, ultra-low-power optoelectronic

MWC 2017 shows the best is yet to come for wireless

Is it the best of times or the worst of times for mobile wireless? It depends on who asked at this year’s Mobile World Congress

A primer on RF technologies driving wireless IoT

Let’s take a look at how popular radio connectivity stacks are able to accomplish a unique role in the IoT world by employing a combination of hardware and software