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Designing the Future: 5G: The Future, But Faster

Siemens’ Fram Akiki shares an insider’s view of where this critical sector is headed

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Getting On Board With Onboard Power Supplies

A look at onboard supplies for medical devices and more.

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How Tough is Your Power Supply?

Examining the MEAN WELL HEP-1000 Series for harsh environments.

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Can the Apple Watch Series 6 Keep the Doctor Away?

Apple’s new smartwatch exhibits health features including pulse oximetry.

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Fuel Cell EV Becomes a Mobile Emergency Power Station

This fuel cell EV uses hydrogen to bring emergency power to disaster zones.

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20,000 Terabytes Under The Sea

An in-depth look at Microsoft’s experimental underwater datacenters.

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Tesla Battery Day Presents Challenges for Engineers

Making EVs more affordable starts with lowering the cost of batteries.

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Microfluidic Cooling Channels Could Empower Power Electronics

Liquid cooling channels are etched directly onto chips for less energy-intensive cooling.

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Recommended Resources

White Paper - Thermal Characterization of Complex Electronics: A Basic Primer on Structure Functions

This whitepaper describes the role of thermal transient measurement to characterize semiconductor thermal behavior. It focuses on the value measurement derived structure functions provide through interpretation of the heat flow path inside a package for use in thermal characterization, failure diagnosis, and improving simulation thermal model accuracy.

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White Paper - Electronics Manufacturing: System-assembly Simulation

This paper describes the design and implementation of several manufacturing simulation use cases at an electronics assembly factory and describes how other factories can use simulation to optimize throughput and cost to make steps forward in their digitalization journey.

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White Paper - DAC Brief: Showcasing the latest innovations in Analog Mixed-Signal Verification

This brief provides a high level summary of advancements in Mentor’s AMS Verification solutions since we saw you all last year at DAC 2019 in Las Vegas. Products featured: Analog FastSPICE Platform, Symphony Mixed-Signal Platform, Solido Variation Designer, and Solido Characterization Suite.

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White Paper - Using Built-In-Self-Test Hardware to Satisfy ISO 26262 Safety Requirements

Among the challenges in the design flow has been aligning the metrics for design-for-test and for functional safety. This paper describes using logic built-in-self-test as both a functional safety mechanism and as a part of in-system testing, which allows for alignment of metrics required for safety certifications.

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