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Automotive electronics work as one control loop: sensors measure what is happening in and around the car, microcontrollers and processors decide what to do, vehicle networks carry the data and commands, and actuators and power electronics carry out the decision. In an electric vehicle the same electronics also convert and manage the energy that moves the car. No single part is useful on its own; reliability comes from designing the whole chain t…
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The Editor's Desk
October 26, 2026
Tutorials
An optical power meter measures how much light arrives at a point in a fibre link, using a photodiode that turns optical power into an electrical current, and shows the result in watts or dBm. Paired with a stable light source it also measures optical loss in dB, which is how installers prove a link is within its budget. Accurate results depend on setting the right wavelength, using clean connectors, choosing the correct reference method and usi…
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The Editor's Desk
October 26, 2026
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Apple's M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max, announced on 30 October 2023, were the first personal computer chips built on a 3-nanometre-class process, TSMC's first-generation N3 (widely referred to as N3B). The M3 Pro is the surprise of the family: it has fewer performance cores and less memory bandwidth than the M2 Pro it replaced. The video below is an in-depth analysis of the three chips, with a silicon deep-dive, die-shot analysis and a closer lo…
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Murugavel Ganesan
December 20, 2023
Video
Intel's AI Everywhere event, held in New York on 14 December 2023, was where the company launched its Core Ultra processors for AI PCs and its 5th Gen Xeon processors for servers, and gave a first look at the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator due in 2024. This post carried the event replay. The headline message was that AI would run across every class of Intel hardware, from the laptop to the data centre and the network edge. Event replay as embedde…
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Murugavel Ganesan
December 20, 2023
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Intel held its "AI Everywhere" launch event on 14 December 2023, live from Nasdaq in New York, with CEO Pat Gelsinger and other Intel leaders. The event launched 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors for the data centre and Intel Core Ultra processors for laptops, both pitched at running AI workloads across the data centre, the cloud and the edge. This post was first published on 4 November 2023 as an invitation to the event, based on Intel…
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Murugavel Ganesan
November 04, 2023
Technology
Attention students who are graduating. Would you like to present your recent innovations? The Digital Electronics Blog is a free platform to market yourself and your ideas, whether you want to land that dream job or start your entrepreneurial journey. Leave a comment on this post if you are interested and would like to know more. Key points Open to graduating students in electronics, VLSI, embedded systems and related fields. Free: ther…
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Murugavel Ganesan
May 13, 2023
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Verification
Case Study:SystemVerilog VMM vs. BSV for an Ethernet MAC test bench. High-level verification languages and environments such as e/Specman, Vera and now SystemVerilog, as used in VMM or OVM, may be the state-of-the-art for writing test bench IP, but they are not synthesizable for developing models, transactors and test benches to run in FPGAs for emulation and prototyping. So engineers wishing to move verification assets onto FPGAs have been des…
