Most engineers who work with microcontrollers eventually run into the same challenge. A project needs to respond faster than firmware can, or it requires several digital signals to be combined in hardware. While these tasks can often be handled with interrupt service routines or external logic ICs, the solution quickly becomes complex as the design grows. This is…
India used to be a market that consumed electronics. Now it designs, builds and ships them. That was the main message from Dr. Raphael Salmi, President of Arrow Electronics' semiconductor business for South Asia, Korea and Japan, when he sat down with Circuit Digest's Soundarya Lakshmi Narayanan on the electronicaXchange podcast at electronica India in Bengaluru.
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What if the rear-view mirror in an electric three-wheeler was actually a screen showing live video from cameras around the vehicle? That was one of the interesting features we spotted at ROHM Semiconductor's booth at electronica India 2026. The smart EV demo included a motor controller rated at approximately 5-8 kW, a battery management system (BMS), and a dedicated board for controlling…
Kartikey Rawat, senior AI and ML engineer and developer advocate at Qualcomm, talks about what to consider when building for Edge AI, from quantization and hardware to local versus cloud processing, and whether generative AI needs to run on edge devices at all.
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Speech recognition models like OpenAI’s Whisper offer high levels of accuracy, but their base model itself consumes up to 140MB and running them on a low-end device like an ESP32 is difficult. In this tutorial, we are going to run Cactus Compute’s Whistle Speech-to-Text Model launched on 2nd of October 2026. The actual size of the model is 16.9MB, which won't fit…
Murali Srinivasa, CEO and founder of Lion Circuits, says India can compete with China in PCB manufacturing, and that significant change will be visible in four to five years. He also explained what stands in the way.
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These days, we are heavily dependent on cloud computing, high-speed internet and all. We rarely think about what happens if the internet goes down or what happens in areas where the network is not reachable or information access is very difficult. The main solution is having the data and its processing locally so that they are reachable anytime, even without internet…
At electronica India 2026, STMicroelectronics showcased a range of robotics and embedded AI solutions, with one of the highlights being a 6-DOF robotic hand controlled by AI-based gesture recognition. Developed by a robotics customer using ST microcontrollers, the demo used a camera to capture hand movements and an AI system running on the STM32N6 to recognize…
Semtech’s Robert Comanescu, Vice President of R&D and Applications for Wireless ICs, and Tamir Reshef, Vice President of Products and Applications for the Analog and Mixed Signals business unit, discussed the challenges of building IoT devices that communicate reliably and withstand real-world conditions at electronica India and productronica India 2026 in Bengaluru.
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Kikobot Robotics is an early-stage hardware startup in Pune. It began by building robotic arms for education and research and has since moved into industrial-grade arms and its own actuators. Raghvendra says the company builds robot arms for education, research and physical AI, and arms for industrial use cases as well. The lineup includes cobots, delta robots and gantry systems.
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As part of our India Tech Tour series, we visited Peer Robotics' facility in Pune, where Ritwik walked us through the company's robots, manufacturing setup, and engineering processes. We also spoke with Ruchit, Vice President of Software Engineering at Peer Robotics, about the company's approach to deploying autonomous mobile robots in industrial environments.
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Sub-1 GHz radio links sit at the core of a wide range of products, including public safety radios, smart utility meters, RFID readers, and vehicle telematics units. Many of these systems now need to work across several regional frequency allocations without a hardware redesign for each market, while still running efficiently on battery power in a compact footprint. Qorvo's QPA9510 power…
