Industrial Computers and Embedded Systems Reference Materials
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Chapter Five: Industrial Control Systems Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Description: This document defines the assessment criteria, and processes used to produce a quantitative evaluation of different vendor's Industrial Control System (ICS) offerings. It is intended to be used as a ...
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Windows 7 End of Support
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Three things to know about Windows 7 End of Support and what version of Windows to choose next. ...
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Monitor Your Process Automation System Without A PC
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Effective process monitoring is critical to avoiding downtime, ensuring product quality and maintaining production volume. If your environment requires process monitoring, we can provide you with the ...
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Temperature Monitoring Grape Vine Weather Conditions
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers supplied the temperature monitoring solution for a Washington winery concerned about the complex grape vine weather conditions that affected the quality and yield in their vineyard. To ...
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Capacitive vs Resistive Touchscreens
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Teguar Engineers, Tom and Will, explain how capacitive and resistive type touchscreens work. ...
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Standardization comes to the IoT
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Don't know whether you caught the news, but earlier in the year a consortium of tech companies released the specs for a new Internet of Things (IoT) sensor platform, M2.COM. The entities include ARM ...
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What is MIL-STD-810
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: MIL-STD-810 is the DoD Test Method Standard: Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory Tests. It defines 29 laboratory test methods used to test the ruggedness of material. ...
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IIOT REQUIRES TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK PROCESSING
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: When dealing with Industrial IoT (IIoT) networks, particularly for manufacturing systems and utility grids, each connected device must typically execute multiple processes, such as data collection, ...
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Why Is Long-Term Availability Important?
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: As demand increases for long-term product availabilityâ€"especially in the military, medical and industrial sectors, OEMs are responding by extending product life by either performing workarounds or ...
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Exploring TCO: Single Board vs. SOM Solution
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Once again, we've posted an article on the ARM Connected Community info forum. This time, we explored the Total Cost of Ownership for a single board solution vs. a System on Module (SOM) solution. Our ...
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Name that Variable!
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: For all the software guys and gals out there, earlier this week, I saw a somewhat funny, somewhat cranky, and mostly insightful article by Jack Ganssle, which appeared on embedded.com. His topic? How ...
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What is Trusted Platform Module?
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: TPM provides the highest level of security for a computer. TPM is a hardware security measure that is already being utilized by many organizations in the industrial and medical industries. Learn about ...
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All-in-One Panel PC Vs. Box PC + Display
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: There are two main solutions to industrial computing: a one piece, all-in-one solution, and a two piece solution consisting of an embedded box computer plus a touchscreen monitor. Learn about both ...
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Balancing System Performance and Efficiency for Edge Computing
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: With cloud computing, data is typically sent from the devices on the periphery of the IoT to a central server for analysis and some decision making. Then, the results or decisions, including the ...
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5 Things Needed for 5+ Year Computers
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: In this blog, 5 experts at Teguar Computers explain what features are needed for 5+ year computers. ...
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The three embedded market trends you should be considering
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Last week, we posted an article on the ARM Connected Community site. This is an interesting and useful information-sharing forum for anyone working with - or just plain interested in - ARM. There are ...
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What is an Industrial Embedded Computer?
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: Over the last few months, I’ve been writing articles about the various aspects of industrial embedded computing, and the systems that drive those application spaces. However, it makes sense to ...
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GL Releases 5G Core Network Emulator Suite
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to GL's Newsletter issue providing information and insight into our newly released 5G Core Network Emulator Suite. 5G Core Network Emulator Suite comprises of MAPS™ application, which is ...
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Designing for Harsh and/or Rugged Environments
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: A rugged industrial computer is one that's designed specifically to operate reliably in a harsh environment and/or harsh conditions. That could be an environment that's subject to lots of vibration, ...
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Best Practices for Vehicle Mounted Computer Shutdowns
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: In applications where a computer or tablet is mounted to a vehicle, such as a forklift, tractor or truck, the computer must be able to connect to the vehicle's battery power. ...
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Adapting Legacy Systems Part I: Systems Integration and Digital Retrofitting
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: When the time comes to update assets and related processes, the path forward can be daunting; however, systems integration makes it easier. By extending the life of pre-existing assets through ...
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Adapting Legacy Systems Part II: Tools for Integration
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: In part I of this two-part series, we outlined the concerns people juggle when deciding to update industrial infrastructure and the associated costs of their chosen path. In this piece, we'll discuss ...
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Campus Safety Measures Part II: Three Campus Safety Technology Use Cases
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: New technology is supporting campus safety, enhancing the partnership between public and private security teams. Three key technology industries have contributed to these updates: Big Data - and its ...
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Durable Defense: Deploying Military Technology with Confidence
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: As more mission critical defense activities operate in harsh environments facing peers and near-peers in combat, the burden to keep defense technology durable has grown. To function competitively over ...
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The New Wave of the Amazon Effect: How Digital Operations Are Changing Industrial Spaces
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: The demand market says, "have what you want, when you want it, where you want it," and the rise of this slogan is called the Amazon Effect. The ruling paradigm in consumer markets such as retail and ...
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5 Features of Rugged Tablets for Industrial Applications
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: In industrial settings, consumer grade tablets are destine for failure. Rugged tablets and industrial grade computers will provide reliable operation for years. Learn the five critical features of ...
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What is an M12 Waterproof Connector?
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: The M12 and M8 connectors are the most common IO connectors used with waterproof computers. Waterproof connectors have many variables, which can be combined to create hundreds of different ...
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Introduction To All Silicon Millimeter-Wave 5G Arrays
From: AnokiwaveDescription: Active millimeter-wave (mmWave) antennas will be deployed in unprecedented volumes over the next few years, fueled by the rapidly emerging 5G wireless (fixed wireless access and enhanced mobile ...
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Millimeter-Wave 5G Beamforming and Phased Array Basics
From: AnokiwaveDescription: Experts and major industry bodies have spoken - 5G will arrive faster than many envisioned, and our industry is in the middle of an age of innovation that has not been seen for 25 years. Companies ...
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Turning 5G Visions Into Reality
From: AnokiwaveDescription: 2019 is shaping up to be a huge year for 5G, potentially the tipping point for all of the standardization work, technology development, spectrum auctions and refining of use cases that has come ...
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Short Message Service (SMS) Test Solutions Over LTE/IMS, UMTS and GSM Networks
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to another June 2018 issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing information and insight into our latest Short Message Service (SMS) Test Solutions, which now adds support for testing SMS ...
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5 Tips for Choosing the Right CPU for Your Industrial Computer
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: The first step to choosing the right CPU is knowing your priorities. What is most important to you, cost savings or having the highest available performance? Do you care about number of cores, the max ...
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What is a sunlight readable display?
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Cory Hovanetz answers questions about sunlight readable displays, TFT LCDs, and optical bonding. Cory has his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of MN and 16 years of ...
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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays: A Fresh Look at a Classic Embedded Design Tool
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: In "Using FPGAs to Improve Embedded Design," Sealevel Engineer Greg Harrison explains FPGAs on a technical level and illustrates their use cases with Sealevel products. He shows FPGAs to be useful in ...
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White Paper: Cloud Computing: What's Your Service?
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: The following white paper will discuss the three types of cloud products, their relative merits or drawbacks and the incredible potential of cloud-driven data harnessing. ...
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White Paper: Introducing Cybersecurity
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Companies are acutely aware of cybersecurity's importance, especially those operating via cloud and edge computing models or utilizing IIoT technology. The subject has introduced anxiety for business ...
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White Paper: Understanding and Harnessing Data States
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: Data surrounds us, driving our decisions and determining a venture's success. Making use of it effectively saves time, money and frustration. This white paper discusses the three categories of data - ...
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Advanced Processing for ADAS
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Like so many things in life, cars are getting smarter. And all those smarts are requiring more and more computing power. Even not-so-smart cars run on embedded systems and complex electronics. As ...
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Rugged Tablets vs. Rugged Laptops
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: This blog lists the pros and cons of Rugged Tablets, Rugged Laptops and Hybrid Solutions, the three most common mobile computing solutions for field service. Learn how to choose which type of mobile ...
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How printed circuit boards were made in 1969
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A few weeks back, Tim Iskander, one of Critical Link's senior engineers, sent me this link to a video that Tektronix made in 1969. The video, which Tim found on the Museum of Vintage Tektronix ...
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Do Fanless Computers Overheat?
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: How do fanless computers dissipate heat? Intel CPUs have built in protection called thermal throttling to protect themselves from being damaged by excessive heat. ...
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What with Halloween soon upon us and all...
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: What with Halloween soon upon us and all, I got to thinking about coming up with a topic that's related to both Trick or Treat and embedded electronics. I'm sure that folks can think of lots of ...
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Designing for the Wearables Market
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: With the recent announcement of Apple Watch, we're seeing a lot more talk about wearable computing. While this is not the market the Critical Link generally focuses on, it's still pretty interesting ...
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The Industrial IoT
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: An awful lot has been written - including by us, in this blog - about the Internet of Things. All very exciting stuff, especially when you consider Cisco's Carl Sagan-esque forecast that, by 2020, 50 ...
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What Network on Chip can do for you
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A few weeks ago, I saw a post over on EE Times on Network on Chip (NOC) The main point the post made was that System on Chip (SOC) designers can optimize their products by incorporating NOC ...
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Would you like fries with that new technology?
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Last week, I blogged about the tablet technology that the NFL will be fielding this season. What I didn't mention in that post is that referees are also getting some new gear, wireless headsets that ...
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5G is here.. Are you ready?
From: AnokiwaveDescription: 5G is here and on everyone's minds - whether it's news from the regulatory groups about standards or bands of operation or a new product or trial, we see it everywhere ...
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5G Makes Major Strides in 1H 2017
From: AnokiwaveDescription: The conversation around 5G has reached a crescendo. That fact became crystal at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), which saw its largest crowd ever of 104,000 attendees. Discussion at the ...
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In 5G, The Last will be First. The Last Mile, that is...
From: AnokiwaveDescription: As telecom behemoths continue gobbling up spectrum and edging closer to network deployment for 2019, urgency heightens to make 5G technology commercially ready for consumers ...
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The Evolution of the Active Antenna IC
From: AnokiwaveDescription: his article looks back at how the heart of 5G technology, the mmWave Active Antenna IC, has evolved across key markets over the past decade. ...
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Advancing Mission Critical Communications
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: People often imagine public safety as stalwart uniformed officers or emergency response teams. However, public safety is also a vast critical communications network operating 24/7/365 behind the ...
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"Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency," Part Four
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: This is my fourth and final post in a series of blog posts based on a series of articles by Rob Oshana and Mark Kraeling on "Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency" that ran in Embedded.com ...
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"Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency", Take Two
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: This is the second in a series of blog posts based on a series of articles by Rob Oshana and Mark Kraeling on "Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency" that ran in Embedded.com in May. Their ...
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Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency via Data Flow and Memory
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: This is the third in a series of blog posts based on a series of articles by Rob Oshana and Mark Kraeling on "Optimizing Embedded Software for Power Efficiency" that ran in Embedded.com in May. In ...
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Technology Down on the Farm
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: As anyone who knows me - or reads this blog - can tell you, I'm extremely interested in innovative uses of technology, whether it's things I use directly - like the Nest thermostat - or things I may ...
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Why Customers Choose Critical Link (and not, say, BeagleBone)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Given the nature of the applications that our customers develop, we don't typically run into competitive situations where Critical Link System on Modules (SoMs) are going head to head with products ...
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Measuring power consumption: establishing the baseline on which to evaluate code optimization
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In May, Embedded.com ran a series of articles by Rob Oshana of Freescale Semiconductor and Mark Kraeling of GE on managing embedded software design's power requirements. Taken as a whole, the articles ...
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What's up with NAND?
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: 3D NAND is on the way, but it's not going to be here tomorrow. Last week, Toshiba and SanDisk announced that they were jointly investing in a production facility in Japan, coming on line in 2016. This ...
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Billions and Billions of Things
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In late February, the Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona. No, I wasn't there, but since I'm both personally and professionally interested in the Internet of Things, I did enjoy reading about ...
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Embedded Design Trends
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Last week, EE Times had an interesting piece by Rick Merritt that catalogued ten trends in embedded design. The trend results are from a survey that was taken earlier in the year. ...
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Moore's Law (To Infinity and Beyond?)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Moore's Law - "the number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months" - has been around now for 50 years. (Look for Intel, and the semiconductor industry, to make ...
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RIP XP, and what this Means for Embedded Solutions
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: While you're probably not likely to be running Windows XP on your own PCs (maybe other than the one in the kitchen you use to pay the bills on), there are an awful lot of XP'd up computers out there. ...
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DSP: making a comeback in mobile apps
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Well, last week I blogged about ARM processors ruling the world, especially from a consumer product perspective. But not so fast, maybe. ...
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How ARM-based SoMs have come to the fore
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: While our first System On Modules (SoMs) were DSP-based, we have introduced several ARM-based SoMs over the last couple of years. MityDSPs of varying sorts are still used in many of our customers' ...
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Coming up: more and more "intelligent systems". (A bit of market research for you.)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: As we work on our product roadmap, I've been doing some market research, and came across some especially interesting material from IDC - International Data Corporation, which provides market research ...
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Partner Focus: LS Research
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: When we build our SoM's, we rely on our partners for the best available components. For WiFi, that partner is LS Research. ...
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Available Escape Sequences and pmshell Menu Commands Inside a Console Server Session
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: In Console Server mode, when connected to a serial port device using Telnet/SSH or SDTConnector, you are connected via pmshell. ...
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Configuring Console Servers from the Command Line
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: Users with Linux or programming experience may be more comfortable configuring and operating the console server from the command line. Only Administrators (users in the admin group) have command line ...
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How to Install PowerAlert NMS (Windows)
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: Step by step instructions on how to install PowerAlert NMS for Windows ...
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How to Reset a Console Server's Factory Default Settings
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: A factory reset will reset your console server back to its original factory default settings. The IP address will reset to 192.168.0.1. There are three ways to reset the console server to factory ...
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TAA Compliance for Government IT Suppliers, Distributors, Resellers and Contractors
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: If you supply products for GSA Schedules and other government contracts, those products must comply with the federal Trade Agreements Act (TAA). TAA requires that products originate from the United ...
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How the MityDSP Got Its Name
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Does "mity" have some special engineering meaning ...
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The Internet of BIG, Industrial Things
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: While the idea of the "Internet of Things" (IoT) has been around for a while, as everything (except, perhaps, human beings) keep getting smarter, the buzz around IoT is on the rise. ...
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Water treatment analytics: A road map to greater efficiency
Description: How modular data management solutions help achieve better asset optimization ...
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Industrial vs. Commercial Computers
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: An industrial computer is a computing platform that has been ruggedized for specific industrial applications that must function in sometimes harsh environments. Its computing capabilities are ...
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Securing the IoT: Assessing the Requirements for an IoT Security Strategy
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Attacks on consumer IoT in connected lighting and white goods, have demonstrated the broad capability for attacks and the rapid impact of fear on consumers as they react to perceived loss of control ...
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The Next Generation of Online Authentication
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: In the last twelve months, if you, your corporation or institution has not been victim of a cyber security attack, there can only be two reasons. Either you are complying with a comprehensive and ...
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Best Practices in Endpoint Security
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Best practices for endpoint security in industrial applications under the broader scope of industrial internet security. ...
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White Paper: Intel® Apollo Lake Atom™ SOC - An Examination of the Graphics Engine and Display Controller Capabilities in the Apollo Lake Family of Low-Power SOCs
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: This document will detail the graphics and image processing capabilities present in the Apollo Lake family of low power SOCs. ...
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Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing - What's the Difference?
From: WINSYSTEMS, INC.Description: Organizations that rely heavily on data are increasingly likely to use cloud, fog, and edge computing infrastructures. These architectures allow organizations to take advantage of a variety of ...
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Encryption Perspectives in a World of Quantum Computers
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: New encryption mechanisms should already be considered for devices with long lifecycles that are installed nowadays. ...
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Analog I/O Basic Knowledge
From: CONTEC Co., Ltd.Description: Basic knowledge and glossary terms related to analog I/O, A/D conversion, and D/A conversion in an easy-to-understand way that includes illustrations. ...
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Industrial Wireless - Selecting a Wireless Technology
From: Black BoxDescription: High temperatures, excessive airborne particulates, multiple obstacles, and long distances are special challenges for wireless communications in industrial environments. But often, the cost and ...
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Understanding Power Needs for Industrial Control Devices
From: Black BoxDescription: Industrial control is a designation for the devices that interface with machinery such as welders, mixers, generators, lathes, and packaging machines. Unlike most of the information technology (IT) ...
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Hardware-based Secure Identities for Machines in Smart Factories
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The entire concept of smart factories hinges on security. The success of smart factories and Industry 4.0 as a whole depends on manufacturers' ability to cryptographically and securely identify ...
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High-Speed Recording of Frequency Trigger Points
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we occasionally have customers who need to accurately determine the frequency of a given waveform at each of its cycles. For these applications, we offer real-time ADwin-Light Data ...
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What Are Solid-State Temperature Sensors?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Temperature measurements are among the most common data logging applications found across a broad variety of industries including cold chains, medical monitoring, and more. In our latest White Paper, ...
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The Importance of IP Ratings for Food & Beverage Computers
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: Anyone that works in a food or beverage manufacturing/processing facility knows that these environments are a nightmare for computers, especially those that are not designed to operate in this type of ...
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Securing the dataTaker DT80 Series Web Services
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Series 3 dataTaker dataloggers are popular for their communications functionality and for their ease of programming using the built-in dEX software. In our latest Technical Article, CAS DataLoggers ...
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How You Can Use BTU Measurements to Document Energy Efficiency
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: BTUs are a widely-used metric for energy production and in solar HVAC system financing. BTU data can represent significant savings. In our latest White Paper, CAS DataLoggers outlines the definition, ...
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White Paper: The Essentials of SIngle-Ended and Differential Voltage Measurement, Pt. 1
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Examining important aspects of single-ended and differential voltage measurement, along with tips on why it might be better to choose one method over the other (Part 1 of 2). ...
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How to Select the Ideal Portable DAQ System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Portable data acquisition systems are convenient solutions used to log data and monitor temperature and other values in industrial and laboratory applications. In this latest CAS DataLoggers White ...
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Why does the time-stamp look wrong in Microsoft Excel?
Description: FAQ: Microsoft Excel. ...
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How to surf the IIOT technology wave.
From: Teguar CorporationDescription: In manufacturing industries the IoT becomes the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) often referred to as Industry 4.0 in Europe. The IIoT is differentiated from the IoT as the IIoT is referring more ...
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Sunlight Readable NVIS-Compatible Displays Excel with LED Backlights
Description: When discussing display technology that has the capacity to be sunlight readable or night vision goggle compatible-or both-LED backlights invariably enter the picture. Here, we outline the finer ...
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SDI-12: The Technology Behind Smart Sensors
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: SDI-12 has become the environmental standard of choice for environmental monitoring applications. At CAS DataLoggers we've put together this brief introduction to the SDI-12 standard highlighting the ...
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Practical Challenges and Solutions for Data Center Fitness
Description: This tech brief gives an overview of activities that increase IT and facility complexities. ...
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AN122 Introduction to PID Control
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: PID controllers are used in most automatic process control applications in industry. They can regulate flow, temperature, pressure, level, and many other industrial process variables. This Application ...
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Bus Technologies for Test and Measurement Systems
From: NIDescription: Discusses the technical merits of several bus and platform technologies for use in test and measurement. ...
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How to Choose the Right Bus for Your Measurement System
From: NIDescription: When you have hundreds of different data acquisition (DAQ) devices to choose from on a wide variety of buses, it can be difficult to select the right bus for your application needs. Each bus has ...