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Voltage-Level Translation With LSF Family
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This document discusses applications for the LSF010x family of devices when used as bidirectional voltage translators. It includes theory of operation, example applications, example schematics, ...
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Wide VIN Power Management ICs Simplify Design, Reduce BOM Cost, and Enhance Reliability
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Increasingly, wide input voltage power management integrated circuits (ICs) that combine features previously available only at lower voltages are now available at competitive prices. High-voltage ...
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Application Note: Superjunction MOSFET for Charger Applications
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: This application note describes the fundamental differences between a Superjunction MOSFET and a standard MOSFET. Additionally, all features and benefits impacting the target applications will be ...
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Application Review and Comparative Evaluation of Low Side Gate Drivers
Description: Power MOSFETs require a gate drive circuit to translate the on/off signals from an analog or digital controller into the power signals necessary to control the MOSFET. ...
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Gate Resistor Design Guidelines for SupreMOS MOSFETs
Description: The faster switching of power MOSFETs enables higher power conversion efficiency. However, parasitic components in the devices and boards are involving switching characteristics more as the switching ...
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Driving and Layout Design for Fast-Switching Super-Junction MOSFETs
Description: Power MOSFET technology has been developed towards higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...
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New Generation Super-Junction MOSFETs: SuperFET II and SuperFET II Easy-drive MOSFETs for High Efficiency and Lower Switching Noise
Description: Power MOSFET technology has developed toward higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...
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AN-10 The Rail to Rail Advantage
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Examples are given to illustrate the technical advantages for a power operational amplifier whose output voltage can closely approach the power supply voltages both for dual and single supply ...
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AN-12 The Problem With Current Limit
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Traditional current limiting circuits may not offer the operational amplifier the protection it needs to be reliable in an application circuit. The problems associated with one traditional current ...
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AN-14 Cooling Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article outlines the advantages of active cooling as compared to passive heat sinks in reducing the volume and weight of power op amps in industrial applications. The relative reliability of ...
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AN-16 PCB Layout Guidelines for High Voltage Amplifiers
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Standard company design rules for printed circuit boards may not meet the requirements for high voltage amplifiers manufactured by Power Amp Design. The article proposes PCB geometries consistent with ...
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AN-18 Motherboard Layout Guidelines for Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article targets several high priority goals in the layout of motherboards to support power operational amplifier application circuits. PCB designers who follow the suggestions are assured that ...
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AN-20 Beginner's Guide to PAD Power
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article provides a step by step guide for beginners using the PAD Power spread sheet, based on Excel, for analyzing power amplifier application circuits for reliability in terms of output ...
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AN-22 Single Supply Operation With Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article outlines the problems and solutions for operating power op amps with a single high power supply voltage. Several application circuits are proposed that may help the user reduce system ...
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AN-24 Eliminating Circuit Noise From Cooling Fans
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article covers the electrical noise considerations for connecting the cooling fan of Power Amp Design power op amps to the signal circuits. ...
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AN-26 About Power Ratings
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: A brief discussion of the meaning of power ratings as they relate to power operational amplifiers. ...
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AN-28 Power Op Amp Specifications Discussion
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The meaning of the performance specifications for power op amps is discussed with tips and insights. ...
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AN-32 Using Evaluation Kits to Implement Parallel Operation
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: How to use two or more evaluation kits to connect power op amps for parallel operation. ...
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AN-34 Force & Sense Application for Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article details a force and sense application for power op amps using a familiar differential amplifier application for IC small signal circuits. Some familiarity with op amp circuits is assumed. ...
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AN-42 Using Evalutation Kits to Implement a Current Source Circuit
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Power Amp Design's evaluation kits are normally configured to build voltage control application circuits, but it is also possible to build a current mode (transconductance) circuit as detailed in ...
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Bridging the Price/Performance Gap Between Silicon Drift and Silicon PIN Diode Detectors
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Figures and graphs from Denver's X-Ray Conference 2009. ...
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MX-40 GPI Drain Pad Bonding
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: The MX-40 has a very small gate capacitance (0.26 pF). This is accomplished by making the diameter ("width") of the gate very small. With a drain pad diameter of only 70 µm and a gate diameter of ...
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SiC - MOSFETs
Description: Thanks to SiC's breakdown field strength that is ten times higher than that of silicon, SiC devices can be constructed to withstand the same breakdown with a much smaller drift region. In theory, SiC ...
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OIS - Optical Image Stabilization
Description: Whether capturing still images or recording moving video, image stabilization will always be a major factor in reproducing a near perfect digital replica. A lack thereof will result in image ...
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Separate the Pain from the Gain in Selecting Power Discretes
Description: This tech brief discusses fundamental strategies for evaluating and selecting power discrete semiconductors. ...
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Six Fundamentals of Power Management Design
Description: This tech brief describes the fundamental challenges of power management design and provides options for design requirements. ...
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Dirty Dozen: The 12 Most Common Mistakes of Specifying Circuit Protection for Equipment
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: It's only a circuit breaker. Yet there is enough complexity and confusion when it comes to specifying circuit protection that many engineers are designing equipment with too little or too much ...
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Enhanced Short Circuit Protection for SCADA/RTU Systems with Remote Reset Capabilities
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: Process automation projects are most often driven by bottom line results, return on investment and an appropriate value position or justification. ...
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Improve Plant Production by Addressing 24VDC Switch-Mode Power Supply Issues
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: This white paper describes switch-mode power supplies and traditional circuit breakers, and explains the technology behind a new solid-state technology. It later explains how it solved a long-standing ...
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Overload or Short Circuit Protection? How to Protect your Design Against Both Dangers
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: Short circuits and overloads put different demands on circuit breakers. It is imperative that engineers know how to protect their designs against both dangers. Circuit breakers are used in a variety ...
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Utilizing Class I Div. 2 Circuit Breakers in Liquid Natural Gas Applications
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: An increase in the demand for energy worldwide has driven the search for alternative primary sources of energy, even to the most remote locations of the globe. Natural gas, one of the leading ...
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PROFINET® on TI's Sitara™ AM335x processors
Description: PROFINET® is the leading industrial Ethernet standard for industrial automation. Texas Instruments (TI) has integrated the PROFINET technology into its Sitara ™ AM335x processors, based on ...
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Simplifying the Bluetooth® pairing experience using a dynamic NFC transponder
Description: Bluetooth® has become a standard feature in all smart phones and tablets allowing communication with Bluetooth enabled headphones, speakers, cameras, watches and other devices. With so many ...
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Building a Wireless Infrastructure: The Critical Role of Backhaul
Description: Out of the limelight of the intense wireless debates over Wi-Fi® and cellular access technologies is the often overlooked topic of how to build the wireless infrastructure. According to Cisco ...
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Data concentrators: The core of energy and data management
Description: In this white paper, we discuss the smart grid AMI, focusing on the data concentrators. We will outline the role Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ processors play in facilitating intelligent ...
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Linaro Speeds Development in TI Linux™ SDKs
Description: Linaro is an effective means for its member companies to affect improvements in base-level software for the ARM open-source community. This, of course, increases the performance and capabilities of ...
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The Next Frontier in Video Encoding
Description: Video compression technology has been around for many decades and despite all the different codecs available in the market today, the basics of compression technology remain unchanged. What ...
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Building automation for enhanced energy and operational efficiency
Description: In this white paper, we will discuss building automation solutions, focusing on aspects of the Building Control System. TI's Sitara processors facilitate intelligent automation of the control systems. ...
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How to Overcome Technical Hurdles During MCU Development
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Download this free white paper to learn how to become more adept at finding solutions that increase your ability to effectively and efficiently deliver great designs on schedule. ...
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Exploring anti-aliasing filters in signal conditioners for mixed-signal, multimodal sensor conditioning
Description: Some sensor-signal conditioners are used to process the output of multiple sense elements. This processing is often provided by multimodal, mixed-signal conditioners that can handle the outputs ...
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High-efficiency, low-ripple DCS-Control™ offers seamless PWM/power-save transitions
Description: Texas Instruments (TI) offers synchronous buck converters with DCS-Control™ technology, a regulation topology of Direct Control with Seamless transition into power-save mode. This topology ...
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Improved LiFePO4 cell balancing in battery-backup systems with an Impedance Track™ fuel gauge
Description: The Impedance Track™ battery-fuel-gauging technology from Texas Instruments (TI) is a proprietary algorithm that learns battery capacity and impedance over time to accurately calculate the ...
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Linear versus switching regulators in industrial applications with a 24-V bus
Description: This article compares three different solutions that provide a 5-V output at 100 mA from a 24-V bus. A synchronous step-down (buck) converter is compared to an integrated linear regulator and a ...
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How Modern 8-bit MCUs are Reducing Size and System Cost
From: Silicon LabsDescription: In today's ARM-oriented MCU development environment, 8-bit devices might look outdated, but looks are deceiving. When coupled with modern process technologies and advanced mixed-signal peripherals, ...
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Power optimization techniques for energy efficient systems
Description: Advancement in technology has aided progression of automation and control systems that provide a cohesive operation of various mechanical, electronics and lighting systems. Apart from offering a ...
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The C8051 Core: A Viable Compute Engine for 8-bit MCU Design
From: Silicon LabsDescription: In today's ARM-oriented MCU development environment, 8-bit devices might look old and outdated, but looks are deceiving. When coupled with modern process technologies and advanced mixed-signal ...
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Another Look at the Future of Medical Processing
Description: Five years ago, the authors of this paper published their view of future trends in medical imaging in a paper titled, "The future of medical imaging."1 Now, this paper will revisit those visions to ...
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Medical Software Development on KeyStone Processors
Description: The role of embedded software developers has become increasingly important in the innovation of medical technology. Embedded processors used in many medical systems these days need to handle high ...
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CMEMS® Oscillator Architecture
From: Silicon LabsDescription: CMEMS® technology is an innovative CMOS+MEMS manufacturing process developed by Silicon Labs, a leading supplier of timing solutions. The term CMEMS is a contraction of the acronyms CMOS and ...
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How to Pick the Right Microcontroller Based on Low-Power Specifications
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Choosing the right ultra-low-power microcontroller (MCU) for your next embedded design can be a confusing task when you compare claimed current consumption specifications in a myriad of data sheets ...
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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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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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Connect Your Micro Controller Unit
From: Silicon LabsDescription: With the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) in both consumer and commercial applications, there is a lot of focus on connectivity. IoT is all about connecting devices together to allow for higher order ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: Diode FAQ ...
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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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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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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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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:
Description: 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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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
Description: 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
Description: 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
Description: 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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Reducing Total System Cost with
Description: 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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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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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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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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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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Implementing Next-Generation Passive Optical Network Designs with FPGAs
Description: Passive optical network (PON) technology is emerging as the key access technology, as it has a scalable and cost-effective architecture to satisfy the ever-growing bandwidth requirements generated by ...
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Microcontrollers for the drive train in hybrid and electric vehicles
Description: The various development stages of electric vehicles range from simple start/stop systems, to mild hybrids, in which an electric motor provides the combustion engine with torque support, to full ...
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Transferring High-Speed Data over Long Distances with Combined FPGA and Multichannel Optical Modules
Description: The ever-increasing quantity of data moving around the datacenter and over the Internet is straining the infrastructure as it struggles to keep up. Core functions such as the storage subsystems, the ...