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Developing a Low-Cost ZigBee® Enabled Smart Energy Meter On CC2538
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This application note describes the implementation and integration of energy metering into a TI ZigBee Stack (Z-Stack™) using the CC2538 platform. The CC2538 is a SmartRF ZigBee system-on-chip ...
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Using CC2592 Front End with CC2530
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This application note describes the pairing of the cost-effective SimpleLink ZigBee CC2530 wireless MCU with the SimpleLink CC2592 range extender to improve the receiver sensitivity and increase the ...
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Wireless Connectivity for the Internet of Things
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: In this paper we review the predominant wireless connectivity technologies in the market, discuss their key technical concepts and engineering tradeoffs and provide guidelines for selection of the ...
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Powering IDAS Networks
From: Alpha Technologies Ltd.Description: The advent of Indoor Distributed Antenna System (IDAS) networks has greatly increased the capacity and reach of wireless service in public venues such as sports stadiums, convention centers and ...
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Police License Plate Readers powered by PoE Ethernet
Description: License Plate Recognition is the hottest technology in law enforcement and has been compared to the radio relative to its positive and effective impact on policing efforts. In vehicle secure PoE ...
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KVM Switch Buying Guide
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: A KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) Switch is a device that allows you to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, video monitor and mouse console. This can be particularly beneficial when ...
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Rack Cabinet Buying Guide
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: Racks are frame structures designed for mounting standard 19" rack-mount equipment-servers, routers, UPS systems, switches, audio/video-regardless of vendor. They provide rack equipment organization, ...
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5 Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing Wireless Ethernet Extenders
From: Black BoxDescription: Wireless Ethernet extenders provide a very cost-effective method for extending a LAN/WAN beyond the 100-meter Ethernet limit. They eliminate the need to buy new cable or dig expensive trenches for ...
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Gaining Competitive Advantage from Switching and Extension Infrastructures: Design Considerations for Post-Production
From: ThinklogicalDescription: Post-production - a critical service for the entertainment, broadcast and media industries - has experienced dramatic change on all fronts over the past decade. Remarkable advances in the technology ...
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Recommended Best Practices for the Design of Secure Multi-Domain KVM and Video Routing Systems
From: ThinklogicalDescription: In most cases, an organization's KVM and Video Routing systems are considered mission or business critical. These systems are typically deployed in areas that are core to the mission or business ...
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Design Considerations for Real-Time Operating Centers: Best Practices for Asset Integrity and Secure Information Management for the Oil and Gas Industry
From: ThinklogicalDescription: The oil and gas industry faces a multitude of complex business challenges. Asset Integrity Management (AIM) is an overarching approach designed to address these challenges by getting people, processes ...
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The Beginner's Guide to Different Satellite Navigation Systems
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: Beginner's guide to satellite navigation systems including what systems exist today (GPS, GLONASS, Compass, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou and IRNSS). ...
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Acquiring from FireWire® Cameras with NI-IMAQdx and Legacy NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394
From: NIDescription: This document explains how to use IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cameras with NI products. ...
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Ethernet Instrument Control Tutorial
From: NIDescription: This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with an Ethernet device. It will provide a brief overview of both NI-VISA and the Ethernet bus followed by a tutorial on ...
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Five Things to Know about Ethernet/LAN Instrument Control
From: NIDescription: A Local Area Network (LAN), or Ethernet, platform is the ubiquitous standard for networking PCs and connecting to the Internet. With the ability to span long distances, it also has become a popular ...
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Remotely Controlling Instruments Over the Ethernet (.ppt)
From: NIDescription: Advances in networking technologies are continuously changing not only the way we do business, but also the way we setup our instrumentation systems. In this session, we cover fundamentals of ...
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Serial Communication Overview
From: NIDescription: Serial is a device communication protocol that is standard on almost every PC. Do not confuse it with universal serial bus (USB). Most computers include two EIA-232 based serial ports. Serial is also ...
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Serial Instrument Control Tutorial
From: NIDescription: Serial is a common device communication protocol for instrument control because most computers and many remote instruments include at least one serial port. Single applications can be used across a ...
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Six Things You Need to Know about USB Instrument Control
From: NIDescription: With plug-and-play connectivity and the near ubiquity of USB ports on modern PCs and laptops, USB has become a popular choice for controlling stand-alone instrumentation. As more instrument ...
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Understanding LAN/LXI for Instrument Control
From: NIDescription: LAN is one of several buses used to connect instruments to a PC. While there have been many claims that LAN(or other buses) are ideal for all applications, the reality is that each bus has different ...
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USB Instrument Control Tutorial
From: NIDescription: This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with a USB device. It is not intended as a starting point for learning about USB architecture or the various protocols used ...
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The FCC Certification Process: Going Wireless
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This article breaks down the FCC certification process. ...
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WP #103: How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple ...
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WP #104: Classification of Data Center Management Software Tools
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying software management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and ...
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WP #114: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data ...
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WP #129: A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Efficient Data Center Power Distribution Architecture
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution. The past techniques of massive transformer-based ...
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WP #134: Deploying High-Density Pods in a Low-Density Data Center
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these ...
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WP #142: Data Center Projects: System Planning
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, ...
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WP #158: Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centers
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute ...
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WP #160: Specification of Modular Data Center Architecture
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. Reduced total cost of ownership, increased flexibility, reduced ...
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WP #161: Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? ...
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Digital Signage Content 101
From: Black BoxDescription: Best practices for creating high-value, compelling content that delivers extraordinary results. ...
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FIBER OPTIC APPLICATION IN A PROFIBUS NETWORK
From: S.I. Tech, Inc.Description: Field busses are industrial control systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) to control and manage field devices found in industrial environments. The communication medium can be any ...
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CASE STUDY: Hong Kong Broadband Network
From: Alpha Technologies Ltd.Description: Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN") is a leading broadband service provider with the most residential high-speed broadband subscriptions of symmetric 100Mbps and above in Hong Kong, offering ...
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Should Machine to Machine Scare Us?
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Several of the engineers implementing device-level networks and Ethernet in our machines want more machine-to-machine communication capabilities to supposedly help our customers. Some of our managers ...
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ZigBee System Partitioning Considerations
From: Silicon LabsDescription: For end devices and routers that do not require a host processor, the single-chip wireless SoC system partitioning approach delivers the best network performance, the lowest power consumption and the ...
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Power Considerations for Rugged Portable Military Devices
Description: Rugged handheld devices such as military radios, handheld GPS, portable computers and PDAs, demand more power and have some of the toughest environmental requirements in the industry. The main ...
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The Evolution of Wireless Sensor Networks
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Recent advances in semiconductor, networking and material science technologies are driving the ubiquitous deployment of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Together, these technologies have ...
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1/5 Speed Time-to-Market with Emerging Smart Grid Solutions
From: nVent Schroff, Inc.Description: "Smart grid" is the latest trend in the energy sector as utilities look to build out an intelligent grid from the utility to the meter. In nearly all market segments today, an abundance of new data is ...
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Avago Technologies' FBAR Filter Technology Designed Into Latest Generation of 4G & LTE Smartphones
Description: The worldwide mobile handset quarterly growth rate remains in the single digits, but shipments of smartphones continue to explode; and with each successive generation, smartphones continue to off er ...
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ZigBee Propagation for Smart Metering Networks
From: Silicon LabsDescription: With growing interest in using ZigBee for smart metering HANs in the UK and elsewhere around the world, testing propagation properties of these devices at 2.4 GHz is important to advise technology ...
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WP #103: How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets
Description: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple ...
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WP #114: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Description: Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data ...
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WP #129: A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Efficient Data Center Power Distribution Architecture
Description: Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution. The past techniques of massive transformer-based ...
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WP #134: Deploying High-Density Pods in a Low-Density Data Center
Description: Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these ...
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WP #142: Data Center Projects: System Planning
Description: System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, ...
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WP #158: Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centers
Description: Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute ...
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WP #160: Specification of Modular Data Center Architecture
Description: There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. Reduced total cost of ownership, increased flexibility, reduced ...
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WP #161: Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users
Description: Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? ...
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How to Simplify the Addition of Wireless Connectivity to Your Embedded Design
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Wireless connectivity continues to expand quickly across all industries as wider varieties of electronic devices and appliances add wireless controls and communications. Consumers are used to the ...
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Remote Radio Installation
From: HUBER+SUHNER AGDescription: The installation of remote radio systems poses new challenges for mobile operators, installers and system integrators. What installation methods are available and what are their advantages? How can a ...
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Top 10 network mistakes
From: Black BoxDescription: Common network mistakes that cost money, cause downtime, and create frustration. What these mistakes all have in common is that they mainly reflect a lack of planning. A network that runs smoothly and ...
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Validate LAN Installations for Optimal Service Delivery
From: Black BoxDescription: LAN validation is an element of the LAN and WLAN installation and maintenance workflow, and it is the final task associated with installation and upgrade projects. A network installation or upgrade ...
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ANSI/TIA 1179 Healthcare Infrastructure Standard
From: Black BoxDescription: What's in this standard? ...
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Digital Signage for Education
From: Black BoxDescription: How to deliver real-time communications, including emergency messaging, to students, faculty, and staff. ...
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Power over Ethernet in Industrial Applications
From: Black BoxDescription: Add low-voltage devices and network equipment in industrial environments without running power. The Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which was adopted in June 2003, enables users to power devices ...
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Enabling Simple, Interoperable Wireless Lighting Control
From: Silicon LabsDescription: With the latest advances in color LED technology, the possibilities for choosing and modifying ambient lighting in the home are greater than ever before. Wireless networking further enables new ...
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ZigBee-based Home Area Networks Enable Smarter Energy Management
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Home Area Networks (HANs) are becoming more prevalent as new wireless home automation and energy management products for controlling entertainment, lighting, climate and security systems hit the mass ...
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Outdoor Time-Lapsed IP Photography
From: Patton Electronics Co.Description: The Canada-based energy-delivery company needed to capture time-lapsed photography of construction-site projects located in the far north. The requirements involved transmitting digital image data ...
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Data Security in Networks
From: Schaffner EMC Inc.Description: Power Line Communication (PLC) is a technology for the transmission of signals and data over the existing low-voltage networks, The signals are fed with a high-frequency carrier together with the ...
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How Patton and Techlan Reti Transported Norbert Dentressangle to Converged IP-Communication
From: Patton Electronics Co.Description: Intra-office communications were complex and costly for Norbert Dentressangle operations in Italy. Routing internal calls (among main and branch offices) through Telecom Italia was tallying up ...
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Patton Deploys Broadvox SIP Trunks Resulting in Partnership and VoIPReady™ Solution
From: Patton Electronics Co.Description: Small to medium-sized companies are interested in the cost savings of VoIP communications but are tied to their investment in traditional telephony equipment or they don't have the money to invest in ...
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QSFP+ iSR4 40GbEthernet QSFP+Transceiver, Interoperable with 10GBase-SR upt to 100 m
Description: With each passing day, the volume of digital information fl owing through the world's data networks grows at an ever increasing rate. The growth of server virtualization, cloud computing, and trend ...
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Wireless Infrastructure Tutorial and Primer
From: L-com, Inc.Description: Wireless communication involves the transport of voice, video and data using Radio Frequency (RF) or Microwaves. Radio Frequency is defined as a rate of oscillation or frequency within a range of ...
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New Opportunities For Wireless Hospital Technologies
From: ZBA, Inc.Description: Wi-Fi connectivity is being utilized to improve electronic health records (EHR). The updating and implementation as mandated in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement makes this essential. Medical device ...
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Emergency Communications Restoration
Description: The ever present threats from terrorism and natural disasters have brought to the forefront a renewed focus on emergency backup communications strategies and solutions for federal, state, and ...
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Maximizing Range and Battery Life in Low-Cost Wireless Networks
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The goal for wireless system manufacturers is to provide low-cost, robust nodes that maximize battery life while extending the range of the network as far as possible. Today's developers have a wide ...
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Shielding Connection - Reliable Signal Transmission
From: Leine & Linde ABDescription: Cable shielding must be connected at both ends to the equipment shielding, otherwise, it provides almost no benefit. Support for this statement is illustrated by simplified models in this article. ...
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Industrial Ethernet: A Control Engineer's Guide
From: CiscoDescription: As part of a continuing effort to make their organizations more efficient and productive, manufacturers are rapidly migrating to Industrial Ethernet technology. This standards-based technology enables ...
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[Application] Ethernet-based surveillance and management system for water pumping station - EDR G902 Series
From: Moxa Inc.Description: Traditionally, the specialized SCADA-based systems used for the monitoring and management of water pumping facilities were physically isolated from other networks, making it difficult or impossible to ...
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Ethernet Enables Midstream Oil and Gas Communications
Description: The midstream oil and gas markets, primarily transport and storage, typically use three types of networks. The first type is for control and for safety shutdown systems, typically starting at the ...
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Application: Electrometers Use Reed Relays in Their Detection Circuits
Description: Electrometers are used to measure ultra low currents at the sub-pico amp level. Reed relays represent the only technology that can successful switch and pass these small signals without losing signal ...
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Application: Modular Instrumentation Use Reed Relays
Description: There are many types of modular instrumentation platforms: VXI, PXI, PACs, Labview, AXie, USB, GPIB, etc. They all offer several different plug-in boards that carry out singular and/or multiple ...
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Application: Network Analyzers Use RF Reed Relays in Their Detection Circuits
Description: Within the network analyzer's circuitry, the need to attenuate RF signals is necessary; and high frequency reed relays carry out the task with billions of reliable operations. ...
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Application: Oscilloscope Feed Loops Use Reed Relays
Description: Fast digital oscilloscopes have different time ranges to evaluate both slower signals as well as faster pulses. Semiconductor switches offer too much leakage and interaction between ranges, where ...
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Application: RF Attenuators Use Reed Relays
Description: Since attenuators are typically used to calibrate RF signal strength, the switching devices must be very good at handling RF so they don't end up attenuating the signal strength themselves. Recent new ...
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Application: RF Reed Relays Used in Integrated Circuits Performance PCBs
Description: Performance boards are used in conjunction with integrated circuits to directly connect the actual test functions from the test system to the integrated circuit under test. RF reed relays are ...
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Application: Testing IC's Using Reed Relays
Description: Because there are so many gates to be tested, test speed is essential. RF reed relays are specially designed to switch and pass fast digital pulses in a 50 ohm impedance environment while offering ...
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Application: High Frequency Reed Relays for Portable Radio Communication
Description: The reed relay being hermetically sealed and then encapsulated in a rugged over-molded epoxy, can reliably transmit or receive radio frequencies between 3 MHz to 30 MHz. ...
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Application: High Frequency Reed Relays in RF Receivers
Description: RF switches must be employed having the ability to carry the wide range of frequencies without adding any distortion when monitoring worldwide communications via RF receivers. ...
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Application: RF Reed Relays Eliminate Surgical Instruments Left Behind
Description: After the operation, but just before closure of the wound, and electronic transmitter external to the body is turned on and using a matrix of relays, scans for these items. ...
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ETSI EN 300 220-2 - European Standard (Telecommunications series) Part 2: Supplementary parameters not intended for conformity purposes
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The present document is part 2 of a multi-part deliverable, covering the Short Range Devices (SRD); Radio equipment to be used in the 25 MHz to 1 000 MHz frequency range with power levels ranging up ...
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AN-00100 - RF 101: Information for the RF Challenged
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note goes to great lengths to remove the mysteries of RF. The science of RF is unlike any other area of discipline in electronics. Proficient RF design requires sophisticated test ...
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AN-00125 - Considerations for Operation Within the 260-470MHz Band
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note is designed to give the reader a basic understanding of the legal and technical considerations for operation of RF devices in the 260MHz to 470 MHz band within the United States. ...
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AN-00126 - Considerations for Operation Within the 902-928MHz Band
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note is designed to give the reader a basic understanding of the legal and technical considerations for operation of RF devices in the 902MHz to 928MHz band within the United States. ...
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AN-00128 - Data and Bidirectional Transmissions under Part 15.231
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: For operation within the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is responsible for the regulation of all RF devices. These rules are made up of numerous volumes, and unlicensed ...
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AN-00130 - Modulation Techniques for Low-Cost RF Data Links
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: In radio frequency applications there are many techniques to choose from: Carrier-Present Carrier-Absent (CPCA) Gaussian Minimized Shift Keying (GMSK) Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Phase Shift Keying ...
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AN-00140 - The FCC Road: Part 15: From Concept to Approval
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note gives a brief overview of the legal issues governing the manufacture and sale of RF products intended for unlicensed operation in the United States under CFR 47 Part 15. Part 15 ...
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AN-00150 - Use and Design of T-Attenuation Pads
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: In discrete RF design, the output power of a transmitter is usually set specifically for the power output needed to meet operational and certification requirements. However, today many engineers ...
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AN-00155 - Serial Load Techniques for the HP3 Series
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note details the process of sending a channel number to the HP3 modules using a serial link from a microprocessor. The code for this is shown and then it is used in an example. The ...
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AN-00156 - Reading The Tx ID From the MS And HS Decoders
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The Linx MS and HS Series of decoders have the ability to output a number that uniquely identifies the encoder that sent the transmission. This can be used to log access attempts or in any application ...
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AN-00157 - Connecting to the Serial Interface on the MT Series Transcoders
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The MT Series transcoder is a remote control encoder and decoder in a single package. It is designed for bi-directional remote control applications, such as Remote Keyless Entry (RKE) with ...
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AN-00160 - Considerations for Sending Data Over a Wireless Link
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: Except for the encoder/decoder pair, Linx modules do not place any constraints on the type or format of the data being sent. This freedom allows for more versatility in the types of applications that ...
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AN-00200 - SDM-USB-QS-S USB Programmer's Guide
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The SDM-USB-QS drivers allow application software to interface with the module using calls to a DLL. The drivers take care of all of the USB protocol and timing freeing the user from the complicated ...
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AN-00201 - Installing the SDM-USB-QS-S Drivers
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The Linx SDM-USB-QS-S module requires that device drivers be installed on the host PC before they can interact. The drivers tell the PC how to talk to the module. The CDM drivers for the QS Series ...
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AN-00232 - Considerations for Sending Data with the LC Series
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The LC Series wireless data modules are intended for high-volume, low-cost applications. To be successful at designing a wireless data link using the LC Series modules, all a designer must do is ...
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AN-00300 - Addressing Linx OEM Products
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: In order for OEM products to work together, the encoders and decoders must be set correctly. This application note describes how to set the addresses and associate transmitters and receivers in each ...
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AN-00500 - Antennas: Design, Application and Performance
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: This application note is intended for designers who are incorporating RF into Part 15-compliant designs. It is designed to give the reader a basic understanding of an antenna's function, operational ...
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AN-00501 - Understanding Antenna Specifications and Operation
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: Since voluminous texts have been written about each of the many antenna styles, it is unnecessary to cover them all here. This article will focus only on those styles which are commonly used in ...
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ETSI EN 300 220-1 - European Standard (Telecommunications series) Part 1: Technical characteristics and test methods
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: The present document is part 1 of a multi-part document, covering the Short Range Devices (SRD); Radio equipment to be used in the 25 MHz to 1 000 MHz frequency range with power levels ranging up to ...