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PCI Express Clock Generator Considerations
From: Silicon LabsDescription: PCI Express (PCIe) has become the high-speed interconnect of choice in the server/storage, embedded, communications and consumer markets. Technology trends have contributed to the proliferation of ...
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Consolidating Frequency Sources Using Oscillators and Clock Generators
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Typical system design initially focuses on microcontroller (MCU), CPU, memory and I/O components and architectures, and later focuses on how to supply the various clocks required in the system. ...
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BeagleBone Black opensource Linux™ computer unleashes innovation
Description: BeagleBoard.org was founded to give developers, hobbyists and students robust open-source hardware development platforms so they could quickly and cost effectively assemble systems by leveraging the ...
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A Tailored Approach to FPGA Process Selection
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: This white paper examines three categories of process characteristics, relates them to the internal structure of modern FPGAs, and then, in turn, looks at the impact the FPGAs have on the systems that ...
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Pin-Compatible Digital Isolated Gate Drivers Make Life Easy for Power Designers
From: Silicon LabsDescription: For the last three decades, opto-drivers have been the "go-to" isolated gate driver solution because they provide isolated gate drive functionality and inherent high-side level shifting in a single ...
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Programmable Logic Puts MCU-based Designs on the Fast Track
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: The capabilities of large programmable logic devices such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) have grown rapidly since they were first introduced ...
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The Yocto Project: Changing the way embedded Linux software solutions are developed
Description: Enabling complex silicon devices such as systems-on-a-chip (SoC) with operating firmware and application software can be a challenge for equipment manufacturers who often are more comfortable with ...
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Power-saving techniques lead to ultra-low-power processors for battery operated devices
Description: Over the years, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has pioneered the transfer of ultra-low power consumption technologies from the wireless industry to the broader and newly emerging segments that ...
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Isolator vs. Optocoupler Technology
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Optocouplers have been the unchallenged signal isolation solution for over 40 years, but digital isolators fabricated in complementary metallic oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology are ...
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Let Your MCU Do the Heavy Lifting
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Editorâ s Note: In this Product How-to design article, Pedro Pachuca and Tom David of Silicon Laboratories use the companyâ s SiM3U1xx/SiM3C1xx Precision32 MCUs to demonstrate how techniques such as ...
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Optimizing LCD Power Consumption
From: Silicon LabsDescription: We are all familiar with small liquid crystal displays (LCDs) â not the 50-inch big-screen LCD TVs on your holiday shopping list, but the much smaller segment displays that are found everywhere. LCDs ...
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What accuracies can color sensors and mini-spectrometers achieve?
From: MAZeT GmbHDescription: Spectrometers are used as reference devices in color measurements. However, they usually are to expensive and bulky for active usage in most applications. Color sensors and mini-spectrometers are ...
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An architecture for compute-intensive, custom machine vision
Description: This white paper addresses a particular class of machine vision systems - those that are compute intensive - by detailing an architecture and additional resources the reader can use to move forward ...
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Protecting Your Equipment with Resettable Fuses
From: TLC ElectronicsDescription: Resettable fuses are used in a variety of applications including automotive circuit boards, home electronics (like stereo speakers), industrial control circuits, instrumentation, communications and ...
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Accelerate multicore application development with KeyStone software
Description: This paper explores how Texas Instruments KeyStone multicore SoCs offload many software functions into hardware AccelerationPacs or other architectural elements to reduce the amount of software needed ...
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Get Into the Zone: Building Secure Systems with ARM® TrustZone® Technology
Description: The main focus of this paper is to draw attention to aspects of security that are becoming increasingly important for those types of embedded systems which have been driven to a large extent by ...
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Consider the Discrete JFET When You Have a Priority Performance Objective
Description: Though not as well known as the bipolar transistor or op amp, this long-established transistor still excels in where you need to optimize circuit behavior, such as for lowest noise. Many engineers are ...
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Leveraging ADC Technology to Capture, Compute and Communicate in Microcontroller-Based Embedded Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: System designers using microcontrollers (MCUs) continue to benefit from Moore's Law with ever-increasing, feature-rich functionality available in smaller footprints and at lower costs. Today's MCU ...
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Balancing Performance and Power Efficiency in Embedded Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Optimizing embedded systems for low power consumption requires developers to find a balance between performance and power usage. However, achieving this balance can mean compromising product ...
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MEMS Oscillators
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: Historically, reference oscillators used to clock a Phase Lock Loop circuit; providing a reference signal to any timing related circuit has predominantly utilized quartz crystals as the core ...
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Automotive Circuit Protection using TPSMA6L TVS Diodes
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: The designers of automotive electronics face many technical challenges during the system design process, including designing methods of protection against a variety of electrical hazards. The three ...
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White Space - Potentials and Realities
Description: White Space is the common term used when referring to the reuse of the guard bands (white space) in the digital TV spectrum for the purpose of broadband Wi-Fi® networking. The formal ...
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Sensors and Feedback Control of Multi-Color LED Systems
From: MAZeT GmbHDescription: It is well known, that LEDs have a drift of peak wavelength and intensity. This leads to shifts of chromaticity coordinate and intensity, which could be measured and controlled by true color sensors. ...
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IGBT Power Losses in Induction Heating Applications
From: ON Semiconductor L.L.C.Description: IGBTs with blocking voltages of about 1200 V are widely used in single-ended induction heating applications. During turn-off, the high voltage impressed across the IGBT together with its residual ...
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Simplifying Humidity Measurement
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Humidity sensing technology is critical to a wide range of applications, and despite its pervasive necessity and application across many industries, relative humidity measurement is among the more ...
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Estimating Clock Tree Jitter
From: Silicon LabsDescription: High speed, high performance timing applications often require a combination of XO/VCXOs, clock generators, clock buffers and jitter cleaning clocks to satisfy system timing requirements. Each ...
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ARM in 2013
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: This year, the ARM® CortexTM-M series will become the go-to family of cores for most new microcontroller applications. ...
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Circuit Protection Technology Overview for Automotive Applications
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: Automobiles produced today have a longer life expectancy than at any time in the past. This is due, in part, to improvements in materials and design. One critical change has been the increase in ...
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ENERGY STAR® Compliant - Low Cost LED Dimming
From: ON Semiconductor L.L.C.Description: This circuit can be thought of as having two separate portions. There is a LED management portion and there is a dimmer management and PWM Signal portion. The LED management portion charges the output ...
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An introduction to MSP430™ microcontroller- based temperature- sensing solutions
Description: As the world grows ever smarter, the use of electronic systems in industrial, consumer, home automation and other areas has become progressively commonplace. With this trend comes the increasing need ...
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Automotive and Transportation Selection Guide
Description: TI's Automotive and Transportation Selection Guide contains featured new products, device selection guides, parametric tables, and a wide range of design factors for amplifiers, audio, comparators, ...
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HEV Solutions Guide
Description: The HEV Solutions Guide is intended to help you explore TI's IC solutions as the various sectors become increasingly electrified on a path toward energy efficiency and sustainability. Texas ...
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JFET Application Note: Reset Transistor
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: In JFETs designed primarily for silicon drift detectors and Si(Li) detectors, the reset transistor is configured as shown in Figure 1, with the base shorted to the source, the collector shorted to the ...
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Operation of 3- and 4- Terminal JFET
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: A junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) is the simplest type of field effect transistor. This device can be used as an electronically-controlled switch or as a voltage-controlled resistor. In a ...
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A Modified MODPEX Model for MOSFET and Parameter Optimization Using Excel-based Genetic Algorithm
From: ON Semiconductor L.L.C.Description: MODPEX is widely used in industry and universities to produce Pspice model for power semiconductor devices, including MOSFETs. However, the model generated by MODPEX for MOSFETs does not include ...
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Development of a Trench isolated 50V technology on an SOI substrate
From: ON Semiconductor L.L.C.Description: High voltage BCD technologies developed at ON Semiconductor entail vertical DMOS requiring an n-buried layer (BLN) to collect the drain current and a highly doped n-path from the BLN to the top ...
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Optimizing Low Side Gate Resistance for Damping Phase Node Ringing of Synchronous Buck Converter
From: ON Semiconductor L.L.C.Description: This paper presents a method to optimize gate resistance of low side MOSFET in terms of damping phase node ringing for high efficiency synchronous buck converter. This method analyzes damping effect ...
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About Diode Junctions Guides
Description: High-voltage rectification presents unique challenges to the designer. Careful examination of the application requirements is essential when selecting the best solution for size, cost and reliability. ...
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Diode Thermal Analysis
Description: Controlling junction temperature is key to reliable semiconductor package design. High voltage diodes present unique junction temperature problems which must be addressed. ...
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FAQs > Diodes
Description: Maximum Storage and Operating Temperature Using parallel resistors and capacitors across diodes Dimensions - nominal, max., and min. MTBF for MD90FF18 and similar diodes Space level diodes ...
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The Big Decision: Make or Buy?
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: The market need has been identified, the business case has been justified, and the engineering team has determined that GPS (GNSS) receiver technology needs to be designed-in to provide tracking, ...
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Adding Class D Audio to 32-bit Embedded Systems in an Unconventional Way
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Class D amplifiers can reach very high efficiency levels, resulting in significant power savings. However, the translation from the input signal to PWM and the PWM quantization itself can cause more ...
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Intelligent LED lighting control with the ultra-low-power MSP430F51x2 microcontrollers
Description: Lighting accounts for about 2,200 terawatt hours (TWh) per year - almost one-fifth of total worldwide energy consumption. This number will grow by 80% unless the world adopts more energy efficient ...
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High-Performance Clock Integration Key to 40/100G Networks
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Technical innovation is required on multiple fronts to enable the industry migration from 10G to 40/100G. Recent advances in optics, SerDes and clocking technologies are helping to pave the way for ...
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Benchmarking MCU power consumption for ultra-low-power applications
Description: Developers of battery-powered devices often have the challenge to offer high levels of functionality and performance while simultaneously maximizing battery life. Applications like water and gas flow ...
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Introducing advanced security to low-power applications with FRAM-based MCUs
Description: Security is becoming increasingly important in a wide range of applications including smart phone accessories, smart metering, personal health monitoring, remote controls and access systems. ...
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Implementing Portable Humidity Sensor Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: In the emerging "Internet of Things" era, the traditional approach to humidity measurement using large-footprint legacy discrete circuits or bulky humidity sensing modules is no longer suitable to ...
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Clock Tree Design Considerations
From: Silicon LabsDescription: A "one size fits all" strategy does not apply when it comes to clock tree design. Optimizing the clock tree to meet both performance and cost requirements depends on a number of factors, including the ...
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Determination of the Crystal Drive Level (Crystal Power)
Description: To ensure that the crystal is not overdriven in its circuit environment, it may be necessary to measure the power that is applied to the crystal. ...
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Determination of the Oscillation Safety Factor (OSF)
Description: To ensure a reliable operation of a crystal oscillator circuit, the oscillation safety factor (OSF) is worth to take a closer look at. The oscillation safety factor (OSF) shows the feedback gain ...
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ARM® Processors Selection Guide
Description: Evaluating an ARM-based processor for your next design? Download TI's ARM Processor's Selection Guide for an overview of the ARM products, tools and software that are available for your designs. TI is ...
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Autonomous 32-bit Microcontroller Peripherals Push the Boundaries of Ultra-Low-Power Embedded System Design
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The market demand for low-power embedded systems will continue to accelerate, requiring MCU and embedded system designers to advance beyond the traditional power-saving techniques that are standard in ...
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USB Audio Simplified
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The rapid expansion of the USB standard in consumer electronics products has extended the use of USB connectivity to propagate and control digital audio. However, streaming audio over USB is a complex ...
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How Can I Extend My Application's Battery Life without Sacrificing Performance?
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Decreased power consumption results in longer battery life, and, in some cases, enables the use of a smaller, less expensive battery. Traditional MCUs perform the voltage conversion with inefficient ...
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How Can I Reduce the Power Consumed by My Liquid Crystal Display?
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Traditional Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) controllers implement the switching of charge across their capacitive segments in an inefficient manner. On the physical LCD, each segment can be thought of as ...
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How to Maximize the Amount of Time in Sleep Mode
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Maximizing the duration of time in sleep mode is extremely important in low-power applications. In these applications, the microcontroller (MCU) spends the majority of the time in the low power or ...
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Using DMA for Data Transfers without CPU Intervention Can Reduce Power and Extend System Battery Life
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The implementation of direct memory access (DMA) in 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on ARM® cores has limitations. Specifically, DMA does not support chaining (connecting a string of ...
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DC/DC CONVERTER Terminology and Basic Test Conditions
From: GAIA ConverterDescription: DC/DC converters are complex electronic subassemblies that can easily have over 50 parameters specified on a datasheet. Accuracy testing is important not only at design stage but also at production ...
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Developing an advanced, predictive battery health monitoring solution with a low-cost microcontroller solution
Description: In today's world of advanced communication, industrial process control and automotive systems, the reliance on batteries to ensure power delivery is always available is becoming increasingly critical. ...
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Multicore Programming Guide
Description: As application complexity continues to grow, we have reached a limit on increasing performance by merely scaling clock speed. To meet the ever-increasing processing demand, modern System-On-Chip ...
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Smart thermostats are a cool addition to the connected home
Description: Over the last several years, the concept of the connected home has become a reality across the world. The morphing of devices like the basic thermostat into a breed of power smart thermostats has ...
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Accelerating motor control design for functional safety
Description: Designing a differentiated motor drive is a complex task. Often these drives are single processor that combine constraints of real-time embedded designs such as limited memory size and processing ...
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Fiber versus Copper Links:
From: Avago TechnologiesDescription: Industrial environments are particularly challenging for data communications network designs for a variety of reasons. Typically rife with electromagnetic interference (EMI), unless every precaution ...
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Digital Isolator Evolution Drives Optocoupler Replacement
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Optocouplers are inherently limited by outdated LED-based technology, which exhibits significant output variation over input current, temperature and age. These variations reduce the operating ...
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Accuracy Considerations for MCU-Based Temperature Sensors
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Consumer and commercial thermal applications all rely on temperature sensors. Complex industrial applications, such as optical transceiver modules and motor control systems, often use the temperature ...
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Building an IP Surveillance Camera
From: Altera CorporationDescription: Current market trends in video surveillance present a number of challenges to be addressed, including the move from analog to digital cameras, conversion to highdefinition (HD) video, adoption of wide ...
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Error Correction Code in SoC FPGA-Based
From: Altera CorporationDescription: This paper examines the potential sources and implications of soft errors and a method implemented by Altera Corporation and Micron Technology to make embedded systems more resilient to these types of ...
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Extending Silicon Convergence with Technology Innovations at 20 nm
From: Altera CorporationDescription: Altera's technology innovations in 20-nm devices will move customers' designs up the silicon convergence continuum by providing them the ultimate systemintegration platform to achieve unprecedented ...
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MSK4225 Closed Loop Controller
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The MSK4225 is a MOSFET H bridge with internal gate drive and a PWM generator, all in one convenient package. This configuration can be used to control a variety of loads, such as a brushed DC motor ...
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MSK5059RH and MSK5032 Evaluation Board User's Guide
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The evaluation board provides a platform from which to evaluate new designs with ample real estate to make changes and evaluate results. Evaluation early in the design phase reduces the likelihood of ...
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Reducing Development Time for Advanced
From: Altera CorporationDescription: The market trends for medical endoscopy systems present a variety of challenges, such as the need for increased functionality, higher definition, improved processing performance, and smaller profiles. ...
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Reducing Total System Cost with
From: Altera CorporationDescription: When building systems for high-volume applications, it is very important to keep costs in check. There are several dimensions that affect total cost of ownership beyond the price per part. These ...
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High Efficiency Point of Load Regulation with MSK504X Series Switching Regulators, MSK5040, 5041, 5042, 5043, 5045
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The MSK504X series are high efficiency synchronous rectified switching regulators. These regulators were designed to provide very efficient POL (Point Of Load) regulation for a variety of low voltage ...
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MSK 5978RH EVALUATION BOARD USERS GUIDE
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The MSK 5978RH offers low dropout down to 250mV and an output voltage range down to zero volts while offering radiation tolerance for space applications. The low dropout voltage allows increased ...
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Startup Voltage Tracking With MSK5910RH and 5922RH Low Dropout Radiation Hardened Regulators
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The MSK5910RH and MSK5922RH are 5A, radiation hardened, low dropout regulators with input to output voltage tracking capability. Many FPGAs require a logic power supply that is greater than the core ...
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Understanding Startup Surge Current With MSK's RH1573 Based Rad Hard LDO Regulators
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: and demands maximum current from the PNP pass transistor. To do this the RH1573 must sink the maximum available current through the base of the pass transistor to ground. The maximum base current is ...
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WCSA - Worst Case Stress Analysis
From: M.S. Kennedy Corp.Description: The worst case stress analysis verifies that all individual components are operated within their specified maximum ratings and/or de-rated ratings. It is important to consider that in many instances ...
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New GaN FETs, Amplifiers and Switches Offer System Engineers a Way to Reduce RF Board Space and System Prime Power
Description: Ever-increasing demands for faster product launch times, higher performance, lower part counts and reduced costs create RF system design challenges. This paper focuses on how the latest gallium ...
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Developing a multi-channel wireless inductive charger
Description: Wireless inductive charging is gaining popularity for use in consumer rechargeable applications such as cordless power tools, net books, notebooks and other power-hungry rechargeable devices. With ...
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Bringing Intelligence to LED Lighting Applications
Description: As the lighting industry continues to make the transition to LED technology, there is an increasing need for more intelligent controllers and drivers. The rising price of electricity presents a major ...
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Implementing Arc Detection in Solar Applications: Achieving Compliance with the new UL 1699B Standard
Description: With increasing interest and demand for renewable energy sources, the market has seen a surge in the deployment of solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight to electricity. While new ...
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Implementing Energy Harvesting in Embedded System Designs
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Energy harvesting technology is rapidly emerging as a viable power supply option for embedded system designers, enabling wireless sensors to be used in applications that previously were not feasible ...
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Integrating Raw Die Can Enable Innovative Packaging Solutions for Embedded Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Embedded system designers have benefitted from procuring integrated circuits (ICs) such as microcontrollers (MCUs) in die form for many years. Because the dimensions of die are much smaller than when ...
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TMS320xF24xx to C2000™ Piccolo™ TMS320F280xx Microcontroller Migration Overview
Description: If you currently design or have designed power electronics using Texas Instruments (TI) TMSxF24xx DSPs, this guide will highlight the migration path and benefits to migrating TMSxF24xx-based designs ...
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Precision Analog 32-Bit Microcontroller Peripherals Add Value to Signal-Intensive Applications
From: Silicon LabsDescription: General-purpose 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) devices are ubiquitous in today's interconnected, sensor-rich embedded world. The proliferation of embedded intelligence and connectivity in virtually all ...
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Next-Generation IDE: Maximizing IP Reuse
From: Atmel CorporationDescription: New white paper: Learn how Atmel Studio 6 maximizes IP reuse for faster design process. The integrated development environment (IDE) has gradually changed the face of software development over the ...
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GaAs FETs as Control Devices
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Gallium arsenide MESFETs are being used in RF control device applications as switches and attenuators.They are very easily adapted to monolithic circuit form, dissipate essentially no power and can ...
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Handling Precautions for Schottky Barrier Mixer and Detector Diodes
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Handling Precautions for Schottky Barrier Mixer and Detector Diodes ...
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Implementing peak current mode control of a switch-mode power supply with a single microcontroller
Description: n the quest for higher efficiency in high wattage power supplies, designers are turning to the digital implementation of these power systems in greater numbers. This article features the ...
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Low Phase Noise VCO Design for PCS Handset Applications
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: This application note describes the design and performance of a VCO centered at 1750 MHz for a PCS handset that uses the SMV1763-079 varactor diode. This low R varactor was designed specifically for ...
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Mixer and Detector Diodes
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Most people who use diodes are more familiar with junction devices than with the surface barrier diodes commonly used in mixer and detector circuits. In a junction diode the rectifying junction is ...
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Suggested PCB Land Pattern Designs for Leaded and Leadless Packages and Detailed Surface Mount Guidelines for Leadless Packages
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: This Application Note provides sample PCB land pattern dimensions for a variety of leaded and leadless packages. These drawings conform with the Surface Mount Design and Land Pattern Standard ...
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T/R Switch for IMT-2000 Handset Applications
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: IMT-2000, International Mobile Technology-2000, is the thirdgeneration technology standard developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for global mobile communications. The spectrum ...
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Varactor Diodes
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: A varactor diode is a P-N junction diode that changes its capacitance and the series resistance as the bias applied to the diode is varied. The property of capacitance change is utilized to achieve a ...
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What are the price advantages of light color regulation via feedback control?
From: MAZeT GmbHDescription: When looking at color correction or control solutions in LED lighting systems - these are often regarded as an expensive add-on. But actually it is possible to reduce the overall costs and future ...
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Design Considerations for High-End Consumer and Pro-Audio Equipment
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Designing high-end consumer and professional audio equipment requires considerable audio application expertise and state-of-the art components. To achieve the highest possible performance, some audio ...
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Enhancing Barcode Scanner Designs through System-Level Integration
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Barcode scanners have become such a ubiquitous technology that it is easy to take the complexity of their underlying designs for granted. Barcode scanners require multiple discrete integrated circuits ...
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A PRIMER ON JITTER, JITTER MEASUREMENT AND PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS
From: Silicon LabsDescription: As clock speeds and communication channels run at ever higher frequencies, engineers who have previously had little need to consider clock jitter and phase noise are finding that they need to increase ...
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Driving Innovation in 32-bit Embedded Designs with Standard MCU Peripherals
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Today's 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) designs integrate a wide variety of standard peripherals, such as analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), digital-to-analog converters (DACs), universal ...
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50 W High Power Silicon PIN Diode SPDT Switch
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Radio transceiver designers have searched for a low cost solution to replace expensive mechanical switches and relays to direct high power transmit signals to the antenna and prevent that signal from ...
