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Top Stories of the Week: November 11, 2024

Nov. 14, 2024
Here's some of the latest tech advancements, products, industry insights, and design solution articles.

In this edition of Top Stories of the Week, we've got our ongoing coverage of electronica 2024 from our man in Germany, Alix Paultre. And as much as I dislike talking about Christmas when we've just had Halloween, we're going along with the rest of the world and doing our annual Holiday Engineer's Gift Guide.

New Products & Show Coverage

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Products of the Week: November 11, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.
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Products and Solutions

electronica 2024 Wrap-Up

Check out our coverage of technology and products at electronica 2024.
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Multicore Micro Targets Software-Defined Vehicle Tasks @ electronicdesign.com

Ignion's virtual antenna technology, featuring a small footprint, supports a variety of standards.
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Components

Hyperfast Rectifiers Reduce Switching Losses

A new family of Hyperfast rectifiers lower switching losses while reducing parasitic capacitance and recovery time.

Latest in Antenna Technology

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Virtual Antenna Supports Multiple Standards

Ignion's virtual antenna technology, featuring a small footprint, supports a variety of standards.
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Communications

Plasmonic Nanoantennas Implement Lightwave/Electronic Mixers @ Electronic Design

Moving RF sensibilities into the optical domain requires deep-physics insight.
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Omni Rubber-Duck Antennas Suit Low-Power Apps

These rugged and compact antennas from ShowMeCables enhance signal coverage over three bands.
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The Basics of Radar Technology (Part 2)

Explore radar’s development trajectory and how the shift to element-level digital phased arrays is spurring trends that impact component selections.

2024 Engineer's Holiday Gift Guides

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Products and Solutions

2024 Engineer's Holiday Gift Guide

What do engineers and programmers want in their stocking this year? We are looking for your recommendations.
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Dev Boards and Modules for the Holidays @ electronicdesign.com

These are some options for makers and engineers that like to tinker
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For Under the Tree: RF Development & Evaluation Kits

Take a look at some holiday gift ideas for the RF engineers on your list.

Upcoming Webinars and Quick Polls

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Webinars

Future Directions in RF PCB Design and Design Tools

Join us for this Microwaves & RF-hosted webinar with key Editorial Advisory Board members.
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How 6G, AI, and Next-Gen Wireless are Revolutionizing Connectivity

6G and its enabling technologies are changing the mobile ecosystem, with things like artificial intelligence becoming a megatrend. Why is it all necessary?
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Next-Gen IoT with i.MX 91: Future-Proofing SOM Designs using SMARC & OSM

Discover the robust capabilities of the new i.MX 91 processor, a versatile, low-power solution tailored for next-generation applications.
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Industry Insights

Quick Poll: Trump Presidency and the CHIPS Act

What do you think will happen to the CHIPS Act now that Trump has been elected?

About the Author

David Maliniak | Executive Editor, Microwaves & RF

I am Executive Editor of Microwaves & RF, an all-digital publication that broadly covers all aspects of wireless communications. More particularly, we're keeping a close eye on technologies in the consumer-oriented 5G, 6G, IoT, M2M, and V2X markets, in which much of the wireless market's growth will occur in this decade and beyond. I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, developers, and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our contributor's packet, in which you'll find an article template and lots more useful information on how to properly prepare content for us, and send to me along with a signed release form. 

About me:

In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.

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