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…

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…

Switching on the Brain with Electricity

The brain is a very complex structure. As humans we’ve been trying to decode exactly how the brain works, for years. Different areas of the brain are responsible for different things. The network, the electrical impulses used to communicate between them and other cells. The cerebrum is the gray matter (even though it always looks…

Graphene Transistors – The step to Infinity

Transistors have revolutionised the world in ways people of our age can’t fully comprehend. From shrinking computers the size of rooms to the size of our palms to electronizing every piece of technological equipment we come across these days. But the era of silicon based transistors is slowly coming to an end. Moore’s law is…