The industry requires network switches to interconnect automation equipment, controllers, and other such devices for transmitting and receiving data on computer networks. Many models of network switches are available on the market, and the industry uses them for both wired and wireless connections. The switches allow multiple devices to access the network with minimal delays ..read more

According to a university press release, the world’s first in-memory processor is now available. This large-scale processor will redefine the use of energy to a higher efficiency level when it is processing data. Researchers at LANES or the Laboratory at Nanoscale Electronics and Structures in Switzerland, at the EPFL or Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ..read more

In the animal world, muscles are the basis of all movement. With commands from the brain, electrical pulses contract or release muscles, and this is how we can move our body parts. Now, researchers have created new types of actuators based on structures of multiple soft materials. Like regular actuators, these also convert electrical energy ..read more

Many systems such as flywheels, Maglev trains, and other high-speed machinery already use magnetic levitation. The Brookhaven National Laboratory had pioneered this technology in the late 1960s. Maglev trains use the magnetic levitation technology, where superconducting magnets keep a train car suspended above a U-shaped concrete guide-way. Like regular magnets, superconducting magnets repel one another ..read more

Modern electronic devices depend on electronic transistors. Although transistors control the flow of electricity precisely, in the process, they also generate heat. So far, there was not much control over the amount of heat transistors generated during operation—it depended on the efficiency of the device—devices with higher efficiency generated lower amounts of heat. Now, using ..read more

We use computers every day, and most users are aware of the one indispensable hardware component in it—the CPU or the Central Processing Unit. However, contrary to popular belief, the entire desktop computer or the router is not the CPU, as the actual CPU is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand ..read more

Many power and signal conditioning applications use power inductors as a basic component to store, block, filter, or attenuate energy. Today’s power circuits use increasingly higher switching frequencies and high powers that impose challenges in packaging and material levels for component manufacturers. Consequently, power inductors, while shrinking their form factors, are pushing to provide higher-rated ..read more

Some devices, like thermionic valves, contain a cathode that requires heating up before the device can work. However, other devices do not require a hot cathode to function. These devices have two electrodes within a sealed glass envelope that contains a low-pressure gas like neon. With a sufficiently high voltage applied to the electrodes, the ..read more

IoT, or the Internet of Things, depends on sensors. So much so, there would not be any IoT, IIoT, or for that matter, any type of Industry 4.0, at all, without sensors. As the same factors apply to all the three, we will use IoT as a simplification. However, some basic definitions first. As a ..read more

Earlier, we had a paradigm shift in the industry related to manufacturing. This was Industry 3.0, and, based on information technology, it boosted automation, enhanced productivity, improved precision, and allowed higher flexibility. Today, we are at the foothills of Industry 4.0, with ML or machine language, M2M or machine-to-machine communication, and smart technology like AI ..read more