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5 days ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

‘Hey Google’ find me a suitable keyword spotting (KWS) model for edge devices. While voice control is essential for modern interfaces like Alexa, Siri, and Hey Google, building KWS models on edge devices is challenging due to the limited memory and compute resources. A team at Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), led by Alican Gok, Oguzhan Buyuksolak and Erman Okman, has developed a new customizable KWS approach in collaboration with Professor Murat Saraclar of Boğaziçi University.

1 week ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

While the notion of smart glasses has been around for more than a decade, striving for a remake with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, it’s the artificial intelligence (AI) technology that has staged a revival of this fascinating tech gizmo. The AI-driven algorithms, aided by customizable hardware, promise to create powerful new use cases while bolstering the sensor’s accuracy and data use.

1 week ago | planetanalog.com | Sally Ward-Foxton |Planet Analog

There is another analog compute-in-memory solution for math-heavy AI workloads, which is capacitor-based and achieves power efficiency above 40 TOPS/W. Analog AI accelerator startup EnCharge is targeting this AI accelerator at laptops, workstations, and other client devices. EnCharge’s CEO Naveen Verma explains how the capacitor-based analog accelerator minimizes noise while providing efficient data movement. Read the full story at Planet Analog’s sister publication, EE Times. Related Content

2 weeks ago | planetanalog.com | Bill Schweber

Talking about vacuum tubes in 2025 might seem like talking about the role of buggy whips in today’s transportation world; but that’s not the case. There’s no denying that these devices—called vacuum electron devices (VEDs) by their adherents—are ancient history with no mindshare for most design engineers. Yet vacuum tubes still have their role, primarily in RF and microwave/millimeter-wave applications.

2 weeks ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

Tony Pialis, whose company Alphawave Semi has been acquired by Qualcomm for $4.2 billion, is a man associated with connectivity IP. But how did it all start for Pialis, who holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto? It all began during the 1990s with an internship at a graphics company in Toronto, Canada, where he joined the analog design team working on timing and interface circuits.