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Trends Impacting the Semiconductor Industry in the Next Three Years
Description: Arguably, at no point in the history of electronics has so much change happened all at once than right now. Digital transformation, the proliferation of technologies enabling the smart city and smart ...
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Processing Primer
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In a website section called Getting Started with TI Processors, TI has a good general overview piece, Getting to Know Processor Architectures. This is at a pretty high level, but it's solid, and helps ...
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The passing of Ray Dolby
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Don't know if you saw the news, but Ray Dolby, the electrical engineer who brought us surround sound, died a few weeks back. ...
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Industrial HMI in a Package
Description: The RZ/A Software Package Simplifies and Accelerates Camera-GUI-Display Implementations for Human Machine Interfaces. ...
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Eliminating Power Supply Design Complexity with 'Simple Digital' Modules
Description: Step-down (buck) regulators are used industrywide to convert power from a distributed bus to the individual point-of-loads (POLs) in industrial and infrastructure systems. These buck converters need ...
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Achieve up to 99% Efficiency in a Robust Battery Backup System Using a True Bidirectional Buck-Boost Controller
Description: A true bidirectional buck-boost approach for DC power backup applications provides utmost efficiency and improves overall system reliability. This approach is also ideal for optimizing battery health ...
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Quick & Easy Cellular IoT Application Development
Description: Integrating cellular for IoT represents a challenge for developers. Learn about the evolution of cellular for IoT and how to rapidly evaluate emerging cellular technologies and develop embedded IoT ...
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Eutectic Die-Attach of GaN and GaAs MMICs
From: SemiGenDescription: The latest GaN and GaAs circuit chips (die) are providing higher power levels than previous solid-state technologies. These new-generation devices require incredible precision and consistency ...
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Wireless Charging Eliminates the Cable Mazes in Your Home
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: End-to-end solutions with key components from Infineon - MOSFETs, driver ICs, voltage regulators and microcontroller units with software ...
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Cree's Wolfspeed Technology Moves Electric Vehicle Market to the Fast Lane with Newest 1,200 V SiC MOSFET
From: WolfspeedDescription: Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, announced a performance breakthrough in the ability to power the drivetrain of electric vehicles (EVs) using its new third generation 1,200 V SiC MOSFET family. This ...
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New Wolfspeed Silicon Carbide Semiconductors First to Meet Automotive AEC-Q101 Standards
From: WolfspeedDescription: new family of robust SiC semiconductor devices for the Electric Vehicle (EV) and renewable energy markets that delivers the highest available power density and durability for on-board automotive power ...
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Wolfspeed Addresses Growing Ultra-High Frequency Radar Market With New GaN HEMT
From: WolfspeedDescription: The device was engineered for the growing ultra-high frequency (UHF) radar market, in which defense, public safety and land mobile radio applications seek to upgrade performance and component life ...
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Wolfspeed's New C3MTM 1200 V SiC MOSFET Increases Power Density and Efficiency in Solar Boost Converters
From: WolfspeedDescription: n solar power generation, the photovoltaic (PV) cells utilize the sun's energy to generate DC voltage in the range of 400 to 600 V DC. This DC needs to be boosted to approximately 850 V DC so that an ...
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Benefits of Scalable Digital Point-of-Load Solutions
Description: Scalable Point-of-Load (POL) offers design flexibility for a wide range of load-current requirements. Combined with benefits derived from digital power management, the scalable digital POL simplifies ...
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Doing More with Buck Regulator ICs
Description: One of the most popular switching regulator topologies is the buck or step-down converter. Buck regulator ICs make it easy to implement buck converters for realizing step-down power conversion. They ...
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72V Hybrid DC/DC Reduces Intermediate Bus Converter Size by Up to 50%
Description: The combination of a switched capacitor circuit to halve the input voltage followed by a synchronous step-down converter (hybrid converter) provides up to a 50% reduction in DC/DC converter solution ...
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Why Are High Quality Components So Desirable in Pro Audio?
Description: In the 21st century, high-quality sound can seem like a dinosaur-a remnant of a bygone age in an era where the majority of music exists in low-resolution mp3 form and gets played through a pair of ...
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New C3MTM 1200 V SiC MOSFET Increases Power Density and Efficiency in Solar Boost Converters
From: WolfspeedDescription: There is a growing need for high-efficiency power conversion (DC/DC) in a variety of industrial applications, including solar power generation. In solar power generation, the photovoltaic (PV) cells ...
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Circuit Protection Methods
Description: Differentiating between Supplementary Protection, Branch Circuit Protection, and Self-Protected Devices ...
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Low Voltage Motor Protection
Description: This paper addresses many issues related to the proper understanding of short-circuit and overload protection devices and how to select them. ...
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The Silicon Carbide revolution - reliable, efficient, and cost effective Schottky diodes
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Application engineers, powers supply designers and academics who work with high-efficiency and high-density powers supplies have to focus on many different aspects of the power supply design. The ...
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Advantages of Using Gallium Nitride FETs in Satellite Applications
Description: Silicon FETs have long since dominated the space and high-reliability industry, but they are quickly approaching their theoretical limit of performance. To move forward, we need to look towards wide ...
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Wolfspeed SiC MOSFET-Based, Bidirectional, Three-Phase AC/DC Converters
From: WolfspeedDescription: This article demonstrates a design concept using commercially available SiC MOSFETs (C3M0065100K), which meets new market requirements for bidirectional functionality. A prototype 20-kW system in a ...
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Selecting the Right Circuit Breaker for Your Application
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: Specifying the right breaker early in the design process can lead to a more robust design, avoid redesigns, decrease development costs, and add value to the end product. Seems pretty simple, right? ...
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Ensuring Power Supply Sequencing in Spaceflight Systems
Description: ASICs, FPGAs, DSPs and microcontrollers demand very specific power-up and power-down sequencing for reliable operation and better efficiency. Adding the complexity of a spaceflight environment leaves ...
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SiC Optimization from the Chip Up
From: WolfspeedDescription: The benefits of SiC are no longer a secret. Various industries include SiC technologies in the development process. SiC power is making its way into so many applications and device manufacturers need ...
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Perspective of Loss Mechanisms for Silicon and Wide Band-Gap Power Devices
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Semiconductor losses and their potential for further improvement: This paper compares latest generation Superjunction power transistors versus e-mode GaN HEMTs and SiC MOSFETs ...
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Inside a New Architecture for USB Type-C Applications
Description: The USB-C interface is revolutionizing the way we charge our electronics devices. In addition to data transfer, USB-C supports bidirectional power flow at a much higher voltage range than traditional ...
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Ushio Laser Diode Handling Instructions
From: World Star TechDescription: how to use Ushio laser diodes. ...
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Powering Small Satellite Constellations with Plastic ICs
Description: This article examines the emerging small satellite constellations market and explains why manufacturers are forgoing the traditional radiation hardened components used in spaceflight for the last 50 ...
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Low Power Microcontroller (Lapis)
Description: In today's energy consumption and the safety-conscious world, collecting and using accurate information about ambient temperature and humidity and the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) is of ...
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Wolfspeed SiC MOSFETs Enable Improvements in Efficiency, Power Density and Cost for Three-Phase Industrial PFCs
From: WolfspeedDescription: The need for higher efficiency, greater power density, lower cost and bi-directionality pose design challenges when using silicon in traditional circuit approaches. An alternative utilizing SiC ...
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A Roadmap for SiC Power Modules and Diodes
From: WolfspeedDescription: The continual drive for greater efficiency and power density in power conversion systems is leading to the expanded use of silicon carbide (SiC). This wide-bandgap semiconductor has a dielectric ...
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Advances in Sensor Technology Help Make Autonomous Vehicles Safe and Reliable
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: In 2006, cars carried an average of 40 sensors. Currently, this figure sits at around 90, and the self-driving car in 2025 might have double that number. ...
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Bridge Amplifier Shunt Calibration
From: EndevcoDescription: How do I make use of the Shunt Calibration feature for the model 126? ...
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Signal Conditioner Error Codes
From: EndevcoDescription: How can I translate the Error Code identified with a particular fault with my model 133 conditioner? Is there a definition of the particular error codes, since it is unclear what the error codes mean? ...
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Preventing Automotive Backover Accidents
Description: The importance of automobile safety has driven several key innovations over the last 50 years. In recent days, many new technologies have been implemented to improve driver safety. This white paper ...
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EiceDRIVER™ and CoolMOS™ CFD2 Join for High Efficiency in Refrigeration
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Home appliances, which run 24h and 7 days a week, have high efficiency requirements. Therefore, the use of MOSFETs is preferred over IGBTs. Modern MOSFET technologies based on the superjunction ...
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Automotive Application Guide: Driving the Future of Automotive Electronics
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The drive towards a more environmentally friendly future for automobiles reveals new challenges for engineers, from innovating solid state technology to reducing size, weight, and copper usage, to ...
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Technical Article:1200V CoolSiC™ MOSFET: High Performance Complemented by High Reliability
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The dedicated material properties of SiC enable the design of minority carrier free unipolar devices instead of the charge modulated IGBT devices. ...
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Magnetic Sensor Materials
Description: Magnetic materials - based magnetic field sensors are used in a wide range of applications in the marketplace. ...
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Anadyne's Next-Gen Detector Log Video Amplifier Foils CW Jamming Threats
From: AnadyneDescription: Today's technology enables the integration of the logging circuit and additional support functions, such as voltage references, noise control, low offset control, large bandwidth and uncommitted ...
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Thermal Resistance and Thermal Characterization Parameter
Description: The definition and how to use thermal resistance and thermal characterization parameter of packages for ROHM's integrated circuit are described in this application note. ...
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How to Protect Buck Regulators from Overcurrent Damage
Description: Overcs explains how these schemes work and how to implement them in buck regulators. We will also discuss the practical considerations examined by power supply designers to help them make the most ...
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How to Reduce SWaP of Satellite Command and Telemetry Subsystems
Description: By 2017, there were nearly 1,400 satellites in orbit, serving both military and commercial customers. Their missions span a wide range of functions including reconnaissance, surveillance, imaging, ...
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Modern Induction Cooking Demands Compact and Efficient Solutions
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Discrete IGBTs are the preferred power switch for modern inverter-based induction cooking products due to their inherent efficiency. As energy costs continue to rise and consumer demand for ...
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RS-485 Isolator Raises the Bar for Bus Node Designs
Description: This white paper focuses on isolated digital interfaces conforming to RS-485, which continues to be the industry's workhorse standard for data transmission. We'll provide an overview of RS-485's ...
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Selecting the Right Battery Chemistry for Automotive Safety Applications
Description: The automotive industry is quickly moving toward more electrification. The deployment of start-stop systems, emergency call (eCall) telematics, and hybrid vehicles is fueling the need for advanced ...
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Technical Article: Control Method for a Reverse Conducting IGBT
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Enhanced current carrying capabilities with combined IGBTs and diodes in one module. ...
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Capacitive Technology can Handle the Pressure
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Low-power, high-accuracy pressure sensing for battery-powered and wearable devices ...
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Application Relevance of Clock Jitter
Description: Clock Jitter is commonly used to describe the performance requirements of oscillators and PLLs when driving high performance components like FPGAs, Microprocessors, and PHYs. But the plethora of clock ...
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48V Board Net Reduces Vehicle CO2 Emissions and Improves Drivability
Description: Automakers around the world have begun releasing vehicles that include a new 48-volt (48V) power subsystem, also known as board net. The first announcements have come from European OEMs, like Audi, ...
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Dual Protocol Transceivers Ease the Design of Industrial Interfaces
Description: The trend in industrial PC designs towards smaller form factors and more communication versatility is driving the development of modern bus transceivers. This white paper discusses the industry's most ...
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Putting Safety into Li-ion Battery Packs
Description: The power FET is an essential safety function in a battery management system (BMS). The main purpose of the power FET is to isolate the battery pack from either a load or a charger in errant ...
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How to Match the Color Brightness of Automotive TFT-LCD Panels
Description: This technical article examines the practice of gamma correction, also known as gamma calibration, to ensure consistent brightness and color matching of TFT-LCD panels used in automobiles. We'll ...
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Overcurrent Protection Enables More Efficient and Reliable Systems With Longer Lifecycles
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Thermal management in modern electronics, whether the newest smart phone or the largest industrial machine, has become vitally important as two industry trends take hold. The first is the desire for ...
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Ratiometric Measurements in the Context of LVDT-sensor Signal Conditioning
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Ratiometricity is a common approach for measuring analog-sensor signals for the purpose of conditioning and standardizing the signal for proper operation with an industrial control system. In the ...
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White Paper: Automotive (R)evolution: Defining a Security Paradigm in the Age of the Connected Car
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The potential for dramatic improvements in driver safety and comfort/convenience is accelerating the integration of "Connected Car" technology in passenger vehicles. Blending vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) ...
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Examining a New In-Amp Architecture for Communication Satellites
Description: With more 500 conventional sensors monitoring the condition and performance of various subsystems on a medium sized spacecraft, there is a growing need for precision radiation tolerant instrumentation ...
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Optimizing Battery Accuracy for EVs and HEVs
Description: Automotive battery management system technology has advanced considerably over the last decade. Today, several multi-cell balancing IC features play a key role in meeting the stringent safety, ...
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Implementing Laser Scanned-MEMS Projection in Automotive Head-Up Displays
Description: Automotive HUDs are benefiting from big innovations in MEMS projection systems and are now central to ADAS and safety. The latest laser scanned-MEMS projection systems can provide higher resolution ...
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Microcontroller Multicore Architecture to Advance Automotive Industry
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How multicore microcontroller for high performance applications is advancing the Automotive industry. ...
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Technical Article: Low Loss Thyristors for High Power Applications
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How improved manufacturing methods for thyristors are allowing a higher maximum operating temperature of up to 125 °C. This has no negative effects on critical thyristor parameters like surge ...
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Image Sensor: 3D Image Sensor for Enhanced Safety and Convenience
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Besides driver state monitoring, capturing 3D data inside a car facilitates entirely new human machine interface (HMI) concepts. ...
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Application Note: 600 V TRENCHSTOP™ Performance versus TRENCHSTOP™
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: TRENCHSTOP™ Performance enables higher efficiency in motor control, air conditioning compressors, HVAC motor drives, UPS, solar power converters and all power conversion applications working up ...
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Over-Voltage Protection for RS-485 Bus Nodes
Description: RS-485 has been widely deployed because of its large differential signal swing and reliable operation over a wide common-mode voltage range. However, with this widespread use comes an increasing ...
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Technical Article: The Future of Power Semiconductors: Rugged and High Performing Silicon Carbide Transistors
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: SiC based systems have the revolutionary capability which can be characterized by a steep change in performance which can make them attractive for designers targeting innovative and disruptive ...
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Safety-Critical Challenges In The Networked Vehicle
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How modern semiconductor solutions enable security systems that protect personal data as well as the lives and limbs of people on the road. ...
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Improving Power Density and Efficiency in Servers and Telecom
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: In a server there might be several places where power losses occur, but in many cases the power supplies for the CPUs and memories are the most stressed components due to the high power requirements. ...
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Application Note: Using a Magnetic 3D Sensor in a Gear Stick Application
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: A magnetic 3D sensor is well suitable for a detection of the position of the gear stick. The "State-of-the-art" solution with up to 6 single hall switches can be replaced by one 3D sensor. ...
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Radiation Tolerant Multiplexers Move to Low Voltage Rails for Space Flight
Description: When a satellite is launched into space, it's accompanied with a multitude of sensors that read out various telemetry signals and statuses for mission critical systems. Digital microprocessors ...
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How to Efficiently Boost Power in High Voltage Automotive Applications
Description: While the 12-volt lead acid battery is still the dominant power source in automobiles, there are new automotive applications that require higher voltages. To address these high voltage applications, a ...
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Understanding USB-C Buck-Boost Battery Charging
Description: The USB-C™ port is a true all-in-one port capable of delivering bi-directional data and up to 100W of power. However, adopting USB-C charging requires a fundamental change to the existing power ...
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How to Monitor Sensor Health with Instrumentation Amplifiers
Description: By their very nature, in amps are a good choice to condition small signals in the presence of large common-mode voltages and DC potentials. The three op amp instrumentation amplifier architecture ...
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Sitara AM437x Device Overview
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: AM437 device overview and data. ...
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Basics of Capacitive Sensing and Applications
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Capacitive sensing is becoming a popular technology to replace optical detection methods and mechanical designs for applications like proximity/gesture detection, material analysis, and liquid level ...
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Capacitive Sensing: Out-of-phase Liquid Level Technique
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Various methods have been used to determine the level height in liquid tanks or containers. Recently, capacitive sensing has gained popularity due to the accuracy and resolution of the measurements as ...
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Developing An Advanced, Predictive Battery Health Monitoring Solution With A Low-cost Microcontroller Solution
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: 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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How to Measure Total Jitter
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Today, the jitter specification, TJ, is used in more and more systems, at the same time the jitter requirements get lower and lower. Clock generators or jitter cleaners like the CDCM6208 meet those ...
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Interfacing a Water Flow Meter Sensor To An Ultrasonic AFE and Precision Time Interval Timer
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This is an introduction to ultrasonic flow sensing and describes a demonstration setup to measure velocity of flow in a pipe using an ultrasonic water flow-meter sensor, the TDC1000 ultrasonic ...
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PHY Design & Layout Guide
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This application report describes PHYTER™ design and layout guidelines and with this report, in conjunction with the product datasheets, and reference designs, will help ensure issue-free system ...
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TI Vision SDK, Optimized Vision Libraries for ADAS Systems
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: It is apparent that the need for advanced ADAS systems in every car around the world is becoming important to making driving easier. TI has been investing in ADAS technology for years. TI's SoC, the ...
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Low power 3D magnetic sensing
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The new 3D magnetic sensor TLV493D-A1B6 offers accurate three-dimensional sensing with extremely low power consumption in a small six-pin package. With magnetic field detection in the x, y, and z ...
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History of Transistors
Description: The invention of the transistor that gave an unprecedented shock to the electronics industry at that time was made in the year 1948. That truly was the beginning of the current age of electronics. ...
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Outline of a Transistor
Description: This is the classification based on the differences in the operating features. The classification is made as bipolar transistors and unipolar transistors. ...
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Understanding transistors
Description: In an NPN transistor, the Base is at positive bias, the Collector at negative bias, and reverse current flows from the Emitter to the Collector. Also, please consider problems arising from usage. ...
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How to Improve DC/DC Converter Performance with Phase Shifting Time Delay
Description: In most step-down power conversions where multiple output voltages are required to regulate off a single input source, the switching regulators can impose high input RMS current and noise to the POL ...
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How to Choose Power FETs for ORing MOSFET Controllers
Description: Using ORing controllers and power FETs in place of ORing power diodes can minimize power loss in high-current power distribution systems. This article discusses key selection steps for choosing power ...
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Innovative Foundry System Using Piezoelectric MEMS Technology
Description: Voltage and ferroelectric characteristics are important factors in determining the performance of piezoelectric MEMS. ROHM is focusing on developing a thinner lead zirconate titanate (PZT) material ...
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Design Considerations for High-Speed RS-485 Data Links
Description: The trend in high-speed data networks continues to push for higher data rates over longer transmission distances, and under ever-harsher conditions. This article provides system designers new to ...
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Battery Management System Tutorial
Description: In recent years, the efficiency of a battery in terms of how much power it can output with respect to size and weight has dramatically improved. This ongoing transformation of battery technology has ...
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Topics in Circuit Protection For Power Supplies
Description: The circuit protection market demand is changing based on the growth of 24V DC control voltage. In the US and Canada we've seen a shift from 120V AC to 24V DC as the voltage of choice for control ...
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Use of Motor Protection Circuit Breakers with Variable- Frequency Drives
Description: A motor branch circuit, including a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and one or more Motor Protection Circuit Breakers (MPCBs), is a complex system and its performance depends on all components, ...
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Accelerators: Enhancing the Capabilities of the C2000™ MCU Family
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Real-time control systems require fast and efficient processing, with latency kept to a minimum in order to maintain stability and boost overall performance. In addition, the increasing sophistication ...
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SPONSORSHIP: DR. DECKS PHANTOM BBQ PROGRESS REPORT
From: Progressive AutomationsDescription: We are partnering up again and working on an addition to his line of "Phantom" devices, this time the Phantom BBQ. ...
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THE 2015 VANCOUVER MINI MAKER FAIRE
From: Progressive AutomationsDescription: The Prosthesis in particular stood out to us with its unique hybrid-electric power source and featured many hydraulic actuators in it's design. The Prosthesis is still in it's early stages and we hope ...
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A Smarter Way to Power Wearable Products
Description: System designers are constantly challenged to create smaller, more efficient and cost effective solutions that will place wearables on the wrists of many more people. Battery life is an important ...
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Designing High Current and High Power Density POL Converter Applications with Digital Power Modules
Description: Today's latest FPGAs, processors, ASICs and associated memories in various industrial equipment have raised the performance requirement significantly on the point-of-load (POL) power converter ...
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How Green Is Your Cloud?
Description: The broadband and smartphone revolutions have dramatically changed how we consume and interact with information in our professional and private lives. Storage and computing servers, colloquially known ...
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How to Configure the Tracking and Power Sequencing of FPGAs
Description: The increase of voltage input rails for delivering point-of-load power to DSPs, ASICs, FPGAs and microprocessors is creating more challenges for power supply designers. Especially as system power and ...