Articles - History of Electronics

In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions. Although a good portion of the population still takes advantage of Blu-ray players to watch media on giant-screen TVs, we’re no ...

Dr. Goodenough received a Nobel Prize at the age of 97 for his contributions to making the Lithium-ion battery a reality. Figure 1. Dr. John B. Goodenough with a Li-ion battery. In 2019, at the age of 97, Dr. John B. Goodenough became the oldest ...

From the early CRT-based tools to the latest multifunctional powerhouses, the venerable oscilloscope has long been a mainstay of electronic design. Able to graphically display a range of electronic circuit performance information as a ...

The high-efficiency switching power supply has become a staple ingredient in many of today’s electronic systems. What is its origins and how has it evolved over the decades? Switched-mode power supplies are found in electronics all around us. ...

Last October, after seven months of silence due to a major upgrade of the 70 m wide radio antenna located in Canberra, NASA sent a set of commands to a 43 year-old spacecraft, Voyager 2. Billions of miles from earth since its launch in 1977, ...

Thomas Weiss, Nexperia In 1969 the first device housed in the breakthrough SOT23 plastic surface mount package rolled off the assembly line. Last year Nexperia alone shipped over 30 billion SOT23 packaged devices. These two facts highlight a key ...

Jessica MacNeil EDN On this day in tech history, Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The launch followed on a similar but unsuccessful attempt by NASA in May 1960 to launch a near ...

George Leopold EE Times The Soviets had bigger boosters that could loft larger payloads, but the American emphasis on weight reduction and its emerging electronics sector proved decisive in reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s. The relatively ...

Jon Peddie Electronic Design There's a long history of graphics processors and controllers that have changed the course of the computer graphics market. Major players in the emerging graphics chip market, including IBM, Intel and Texas ...

I began my career in electronic circuit design in 1972; I remember what relatively few integrated circuits were available at that time. So, when I look back at the Apollo program that began in the early '60s and put a man on the Moon in 1969, I ...