New technique protects synthetic gene circuits against cell growth dilution

Genetic engineers can design and assemble sophisticated gene circuits to program cells with new functions, but important ...
EDN

Reconfigurable modules ease analog design

Chameleon adaptive analog modules from Okika provide preprogrammed, ready-to-use analog functions in a compact 14×11-mm form ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Parallel Implementation Of Nonlinear Functions Using An Optical Processor (UCLA)

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Multimodal LLM Assistant for Chip Physical Design (National Taiwan Univ., UCLA, NVIDIA)

A new technical paper titled “Multimodal Chip Physical Design Engineer Assistant” was published by researchers at National Taiwan University, University of California, Los Angeles and NVIDIA Research.
Euronews

China’s BYD makes largest recall of 115,000 cars over design issues

Chinese carmaker BYD (Build Your Dreams) will make its largest recall yet of 115,000 vehicles in its home market due to design defects and battery-related safety risks. The recall concerns Tang series ...
Investopedia

What Is a Good Credit Score and How to Improve It

Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and currently holds a Life, Accident, and Health License in Indiana. He has 8 years experience in finance, from ...
IEEE

Convex Co-Design of Mixed-Relative Degree Control Barrier Functions and Feedback Controllers for Linear Systems

Abstract: Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been proposed as an efficient tool for safe control design. Given an initial set, a safe set and system dynamics, designing a candidate CBF is known to ...
C&EN

Crystal Morphology and Associated Face-Specific Growth Kinetics of Tolfenamic Acid as a Function of Its Solution Crystallization Environment§

School of Chemical Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China Centre for the Digital Design of Drug Products, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, ...
IEEE

Calculation of the Proper Auxiliary Circuit Phase Number for Multiphase Stacked Interleaved Buck Converters

Abstract: A multiphase stacked interleaved buck converter (SIBC) ensures the cancellation of current ripple across all duty cycles. However, to achieve ripple cancellation, the auxiliary circuit in ...