From light to logic: First complete logic gate achieved in soft material using light alone

Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh have created the first functionally complete logic gate ...
EDN

Understand quadrature encoders with a quick technical recap

A quadrature encoder uses two output channels offset in phase to detect both direction and position with greater precision.

Chiral skyrmion flows enable new approach to nanoscale logic devices

In magnetic materials with antisymmetric exchange interactions, novel particle-like spin textures called magnetic skyrmions can appear and be manipulated by electrons. First observed in 2009, they ...
Electronic Specifier

Toshiba expands low-voltage single-gate logic device lineup

Toshiba Electronics Europe expands its 7UL series of low-voltage, single-gate logic ICs with the introduction of 21 new ...
Electronic Specifier

Melexis unveils automotive-grade magnetic encoder for E-chassis systems

Melexis has unveiled an automotive-grade variant of its MLX90382 magnetic encoder, aimed at electric and digitally controlled ...
Hackaday

Unusual Circuits In The Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic

Intel’s 386 CPU is notable for being its first x86 CPU to use so-called standard cell logic, which swapped the taping out of ...