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Any product designed today that requires high-speed clocks can be troubled with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) compliance issues. This article outlines an electromagnetic (EM) field-oriented perspective for printed circuit board (PCB) design intended to help the reader pass electromagnetic interference (EMI) compliance testing the first time

In the automotive display system, TFT LCD displays dominate in the automotive display panel. Furthermore, OLED and micro-LED displays are drawing more and more attention in the market. The power techniques need to be developed for different display technologies. The edge-lit backlight and direct-lit backlight are commonly used in TFT LCD displays. The local dimming based on the direct-lit backlight with mini-LEDs is developed for improving the display performance. Although OLED displays are more common in smartphones, the automotive OLED and micro-LED displays are still in development. This article comprehensively describes the automotive display system and the power techniques.

Smart transmitters can normalize gain and offset, linearize the sensor by converting its analog signal to digital, process the signals with arithmetic algorithms resident in the microcontroller, convert back to analog, and transmit the result as a standard current along the loop. They also add the capability for digital communications, which share the twisted-pair line with the 4-20 mA signal. The resulting communication channel allows for transmission control and diagnostic signals along with the sensor data. The SoC that integrates AFE, microcontroller, HART®, and 4-20 mA transmitter technology allows for the small size of the 4-20 mA smart transmitter.

A few weeks ago, at CES, I encountered a technology that seemed too science fiction to actually work. In its simplest form, you wear a headband that contains a few sensors, and those sensors read your brain waves. That’s not really possible, or is it? Being the skeptic that I am, I told the spokespeople that I doubted their technology could work, and I moved on.

In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Alex Iuorio, Avnet’s Senior Vice President of Global Supplier Development, delves into the findings of the 2025 Avnet Insights engineering survey. This year’s report focuses on Artificial Intelligence, examining what engineers expect from the market, the challenges they anticipate, and how AI is influencing product design.

Open tools are becoming the norm in the embedded software development space. And that’s definitely the case for Analog Devices’ CodeFusion Studio tool.

The IDE lets developers start with an SoC, and design their systems from there. The software development platform is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

On this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, with Kumar Gala and Maureen Helm, both Distinguished Engineers with Analog Devices’ Software & Digital Platforms Group, we defined what “open” means in this space, then jumped into how and where a developer would get started.