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How to maximize the wireless range of short-range devices with sub-GHz RF transmitters in your home

Maxim Integrated provides tips and techniques to maximize the wireless power range of sub-GHz short-range devices with RF communications in your home electronics

10 popular LoRa add-on boards for SBCs

The LoRa boards allow makers to deploy their creations in genuinely remote areas without the need for constant servicing or battery

A brief history of electronic reliability in space — including today’s risks and how to mitigate them

Components for new space systems must still meet requirements for radiation tolerance and electrical, thermal, and mechanical reliability. However, a new class of

Driver-monitoring systems need a new breed of IR-LED drivers

Automotive IR camera systems need to be small and efficient and capable of withstanding harsh environmental

Optimizing a wearable power supply for efficiency, output noise, and size

TI compares the trade-offs of three fundamental power architectures of DC/DC-only, LDO-only, and DC/DC followed by an LDO for small, battery-powered

10 hot circuit protection devices

The chips safeguarding against overcurrent, overvoltage, and ESD are diversifying to better serve specialized use

USB made easier

Are you grasping the USB standard naming changes? Or does it make you take pause? Here’s a quick overview that just might help allay some of that

Black sand transistors can switch at almost unbelievable speed

Researchers find that semiconductors formed from Hawaiian black sand exhibit unprecedented size, performance, and power-consumption

High-brightness LEDs: a key ingredient in smart lighting recipes

The anatomy of HB-LEDs reveals how new designs are overcoming brightness degradation while steadily raising luminous

Work starts on chiplet open standard for accelerators

Chiplets represent one of several efforts to address slowing gains in silicon process