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Texas Instruments introduced the TCAN6062 controller area network (CAN) extended data-field length (XL) transceiver for industrial networks in robots, humanoid robots and HMI systems. The CAN XL device supports payloads up to 2,048 bytes per frame, data rates up to 20 Mbps, backward compatibility with CAN FD and CAN SIC operation and TCP/IP tunneling for diagnostics, sensor data, control traffic and over-the-air updates. Signal improvement capability helps reduce ringing in complex networks, while wide I/O voltage compatibility and protection up to ±58 V support industrial designs with multiple nodes.

Engineering is sometimes referred to as the management of technical trade-offs. That can be especially true in complex systems like solid-state transformers (SSTs). A successful SST design balances competing constraints, like extreme heat generation versus a compact solution. That may not always require a wide bandgap (WBG) power device.

Hardware design teams often treat the printed circuit board component library as a drawing repository, a collection of schematic symbols and 2D footprints required to pass a design rule check and generate Gerber files. But viewing a component library strictly through the lens of ECAD is a fundamental engineering problem.

Temperature sensors in electric vehicle (EV) battery packs measure temperature only where they are mounted. Nevertheless, a battery management system (BMS) must use limited local readings to reconstruct the pack temperature field, detect developing hot spots, and drive cooling decisions that reflect cell-level conditions. This article reviews how sensor placement and density affect BMS monitoring accuracy, hot-spot detection, and EV thermal management.

Aetina Corporation has announced the DeviceEdge AIE-VN34/44 and AIE-VO24/34 palm-sized in-vehicle edge AI systems powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano modules. The systems deliver up to 100 TOPS or 67 TOPS of AI performance, support up to four GMSL2 cameras, use a 136.3 x 132 x 63 mm fanless chassis […]

New and old technologies provide critical tunnel wireless links.

The August 2026 edition of “Flea at MIT” was not only the largest I’ve ever seen, but it had the most test equipment too.

We have looked at the “tunnel radio” problem and one solution using one (or likely several) fixed-location distributed antennas. This part looks at an attentive, informally called the “leaky cable” or “leaky feeder” solution.

If you’re immersed in electronics systems, circuits and individual components, it’s easy to pay less attention to the thermal design, advanced cooling, and production difficulties that designs of systems such as smartphones must work through. Yes, we know all about passive and active cooling using heat sinks, heat pipes, cold plates, thermal jumpers, fans, liquid cooling, and more. Further, we know about using convection, conduction, and even radiant cooling– the three basic principles of heat flow known since late 1700s and into the 1800s.

Modelithics ® has released Modelithics COMPLETE Library ™ v26.4 for Keysight ADS, with support for ADS 2024 through ADS 2027 on Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms. The update adds 25 nonlinear Microchip diode models including PIN and varactor families, six nonlinear GaN HEMT models from Guerilla RF, 20 new Microwave Global Models™ for passive components and three TTM coupler models, with frequency coverage extending to 110 GHz for selected diode models and 150 GHz for selected passive models. For RF, microwave and high-speed design teams, the added measurement-based models can improve simulation-to-measurement correlation and reduce redesign work in communications, defense, sensing and infrastructure applications.