Image source: Ambiq Key Takeaways about Battery Powered AI devices: Battery-powered devices are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) for improved performance. AI devices operating at the edge must be power-stingy. Devices that exploit this trend will come with varied subsystems and capabilities, but all must include comprehensive security features. As technology progresses, the imperative to integrate AI into battery-powered […]
Faraday effect in a 2D semiconductor. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47294-5 It has been known for centuries that light exhibits wave-like behavior in certain situations. Some materials are able to rotate the polarization, i.e. the direction of oscillation, of the light wave when the light passes through the material. This property is utilized in […]
Although seen as a considerable technical achievement to make the chip without EUV tools, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, told CBS News: “What it tells me is the export controls are working because that chip is not nearly as good. … it’s years behind what we have in the United States,” TechInsights says it […]
Dubbed AOZ1377DI, is can be used in both Sink and Source applications and it “offers features that significantly reduce voltage drop and power loss compared to back-to-back p-channel devices”, promises the company. Instead it uses a pair of internal drain-to-drain n-channel mosfets, whose gates are driven from a charge pump to a voltage above the […]
Key Things to Know: Neuralink’s Breakthrough: Demonstrated the use of a brain-chip implant enabling a paralysed man to control a computer cursor with his thoughts, marking a significant milestone in neural engineering and medical science. Engineering Challenges: Medical implants face numerous challenges, including ensuring safety, efficacy, biocompatibility, and ethical considerations, all of which are crucial […]
April 11, 2024 — TDK Corporation recently released the InvenSense SmartSonic™ ICU-10201 ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) sensor with on-chip processing, enabling the design of high-performance, low-power IoT and robotics products. The ICU-10201 sensor offers the sensitivity required for accurate obstacle avoidance or proximity sensing, which is used frequently in robotics, drones, and robot vacuum cleaner (RVC) […]
It is included in the 2024 version of UDE, the company’s universal debug engine. With UDE “the Cortex-R52 main cores and the Cortex-M7 auxiliary cores are all visible and can be controlled from one common debugger user interface”, according to PLS. “This eliminates the need to open separate debugger instances for each core. The debugger […]
Consumption is 84.3μA/MHz and the company “offers a ‘software stand-by’ mode that reduces power consumption by a further 99% to 0.2 µA”, it said. Wake from this mode is in 4.6μs or less if the internal 32MHz oscillator is used. On this oscillator, Renesas said: Unlike other on-chip oscillators, it maintains precision in environments from […]
It is called Balletto. “Balletto gives manufacturers the opportunity to implement AI/ML functions such as speech recognition, adaptive noise cancellation, vocal targeting and beam forming in true wireless stereo earbuds, and sensor fusion in lifestyle wristbands and other types of space-constrained devices,” according to Alif. The CPU is a Cortex-M55 for which the company is claiming an […]