Enter the Power Button Extension V2, surely the most satisfying start up routine for a desktop rig yet conceived by human ...

You don’t realize how much your home depends on electricity until it’s gone. When the lights flicker out, you start ...

VRM temperatures are not the hottest topic in hardware optimization, but they're quietly critical to the stability, longevity ...

My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

Leakage through parasitic body diodes in MOSFETs: Unintended current paths can form through transistor body diodes, ...

One of the common causes of lost power and performance in diesel-powered vehicles is a malfunctioning nitrogen oxides (NOx) sensor. These sensors monitor NOx levels in the vehicle’s exhaust. If they ...

The National Grid will pilot the use of a technology that promises to allow artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres to flexibly adjust how much power they draw from the grid, as part of a push to ...

Is my power supply OK, and what if it isn’t? Is my microprocessor still working? In part 1, we examined the operation of power supply supervisory ICs that can detect when the supply voltage is too low ...

The best part about post-mortem teardowns of electronics is when you discover some unusual design features, whether or not these are related to the original fault. In the case of a recent ...

Is my power supply OK? What about my microprocessor? What if something goes wrong? Simulations show what happens if dc voltage drops. Microprocessors can behave in unwanted ways when their power ...