The Growth of Chinese Electric Vehicle Industry

With the present scenario of pollution and global warming all around the globe, it’s clear that the approach towards saving the environment needs to be changed and this has to be done soon!!! One major change that is surely about to take place, and that too for good is the rise of electric vehicle (EV)…

The Language of circuits

What is Hardware Description Language? Many of us are familiar with basic digital logic and logic-gate based circuits, through our school and first-year courses. Digital logic is the basic backbone of almost every small and big electronic system around us, starting from microwave ovens to huge supercomputers.  At the elementary level, we see that any…

Future FPGA Development

A Field-Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) likely has a quicker time-to-market because they are not pre-designed to perform certain tasks. You can buy a ready-made FPGA and then configure it to the design you need. An FPGA is a device that contains a matrix of reconfigurable gate array logic circuitry. When an FPGA is configured, the internal circuitry is…

A Quick Intro to Machine Learning Techniques

Machine learning is one of the hot topics everyone wants on their resume. Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs that can use data to learn for themselves. Here is a quick introduction to various machine learning techniques: Machine learning is classified as follows: Supervised Learning: Machines are trained using well labelled data…

Financial Scam 101 – The Ponzi Scheme

It was December 10, 2008, and Wall Street was running as it normally does every day; telephones ringing, brokers doing their best to work their magic, the overlapping sounds of keyboards, staplers and binders making the ruckus it always does. Everything was perfectly normal, until the telegram popped up with the message that cost over…

Life on Mars

Little Green Men?  Nope, extraterrestrial life may look more like pasta. Fettuccini or Capellini, Anyone? Scientists have now discovered microbial mats in Yellowstone that look a lot similar to a bowl of delicious, chessy pasta.  Hot-spring-loving microbes create rock formations that look like fettuccini or capellini, according to a new NASA-funded study published online April 30…

Electronics and Human Body

Electronics and the Human Body were considered to be two independent disciplines on themselves. However, today, things are changing. These two are being integrated into each other. With the advancement of silicon technology, electronic engineers are exploring new possibilities like the ones below: Edible Electronics The truth is, electronics, in general, aren’t designed to be…

Merkle Trees and their application in Blockchain

Merkle Trees are a fundamental component of Blockchain technology and allow them to function with transaction integrity. To develop an understanding of decentralized systems and their efficient functionality, let us start from the basics. What is a cryptographic hash function? A cryptographic hash function is a function which takes an input and gives an output…

Why Cancer Research needs you and me

Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2012, there were 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. First let us answer two important questions about cancer and then see how engineering can help solve this biological problem. Why is cancer risk increasing? We all know that cancer is the…