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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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Making MEMS Pressure Sensors Easier to Use (Part 1)
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: Pressure is one of the most common measurements. Based on their small size, low cost and high reliability, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) pressure sensors that use the high-volume manufacturing ...
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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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AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation Systems Capable of Producing 100 V/m CW or PM from 10 kHz to 40 GHz
Description: This application note provides various amplifier and antenna configurations that will satisfy 100 V/m radiated susceptibility requirements from 10 kHz to 40 GHz, such as DO-160G (100 MHz-18 GHz) and ...
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AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation Systems Capable of Producing 200 V/m CW or PM from 10 kHz to 40 GHz
Description: This application note provides various amplifier and antenna configurations that will satisfy 200 V/M radiated susceptibility requirements from 10 kHz to 40 GHz, such as DO-160G (100 MHz-18 GHz) and ...
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High-Power Solid State Pulsed Amplifiers
Description: For years, when discussing high field-strength electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) radiated susceptibility testing, Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) technology has been the only available option ...
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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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Understanding the Basics of PLCs
From: IntervalZeroDescription: PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) are mainly used in industrial and commercial applications. Industries rely on a wide range of machines that are complex to operate. Every machine has parts that ...
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What's a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)?
From: IntervalZeroDescription: A PLC (programmable logic controller) is a digital computer used for industrial automation to automate different electro-mechanical processes. It was introduced to eliminate issues such as high power ...
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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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Cost-effective Hybrid Input-matched GaN Transistor for S-Band Radar Applications
From: QorvoDescription: Plextek RFI has worked with Qorvo to design the QPD1020 hybrid input-matched GaN transistor, which includes internal input matching realised on a passive GaAs die. Unlike a pre-matched transistor, ...
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Dealing with Large Dynamic Range
From: AnadyneDescription: Designing an ultra-low noise, high speed, DC coupled amplifier that operates over a wide temperature range is difficult, but the technical problems become far more severe if the amplifier also has to ...
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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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IoT Demands New Approach to MCU-based Embedded Designs
Description: The IoT market forces embedded developers to reconsider their definition of system-level design. They must stop thinking of their application as a discrete, stand-alone unit. Instead, they must think ...
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Renesas Synergy™ MCUs Build a Foundation for Groundbreaking Integrated Embedded Platform Development
Description: Designers eyeing new applications in the embedded and rapidly emerging IoT markets need a highly scalable, upwards compatible family of microcontrollers (MCUs) that combines high efficiency and ...
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Renesas Synergy™ Platform: A Path to Faster MCU System Development for IoT and Embedded Products
Description: The fast-moving IoT market is forcing developers to re-evaluate their traditional approach to product development. Today's embedded designs are simply too complex to develop in a step-by-step, serial ...
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Renesas Synergy™ Software Package (SSP) Redefines Software Development for the IoT Market
Description: In today's fast moving IoT market, developers should not be responsible for integrating major components of their base software such as the RTOS, communications stacks, software frameworks, and device ...
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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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Strain Gage Signal Conditioner
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The most dominant application of bridge circuits is in the instrumentation arena. Within these applications, the strain gage as a resistive element sensitive to displacement has been used extensively ...
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Design Considerations: Enabling Touch Key Capability
Description: Capacitive touch switch sensitivity and anti-noise performance are influenced by many factors such as electrode shape and size, wire routing, patterns surrounding the electrode, overlay panel ...
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2 to 20 GHz Limiter/Low Noise Amplifier
From: QorvoDescription: The QPM1000 is a high performance, 2 to 20 GHz multichip module (MCM) that combines a limiter and low noise amplifier (LNA) within a small surface-mount package. ...
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Accelerate PA Design with Source/Load-Pull ACPR and EVM Measurements
From: QorvoDescription: Power-amplifier (PA) designers can take advantage of software that allows them to utilize complex load-pull data sets, thereby streamlining the design process. ...
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Advanced Nonlinear and Noise Modeling of High-Frequency GaN Devices
From: QorvoDescription: Gallium-nitride (GaN) technology has been rapidly growing as the material of choice for HEMT devices in the RF/microwave industry due to its high-efficiency operation and its specific properties being ...
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How to Bias GaN Transistors Without Damaging the Device: A Video Tutorial DESIGN HUB Block Diagrams Design Tools Blog Brochures E-Books Published Articles Videos White Papers DESIGN HUB MENU DESIGN HUB Block Diagrams Design Tools Blog Brochures E-Bo
From: QorvoDescription: Are you an RF or microwave engineer who's never worked with gallium nitride (GaN) or depletion mode FETs? Do you keep damaging your sampled GaN parts or evaluation boards but don't know why? GaN is a ...
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Solid-State PAs Battle TWTAs for ECM Systems
From: QorvoDescription: Electronic countermeasures or ECM systems are typically comprised of receivers, processors, displays and jamming transmitters. ...
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The Next Wave of Job Opportunities, Brought to You by the IoT (Part 1 of 5)
From: QorvoDescription: IHS forecasts that the IoT market will grow from an installed base of 15.4 billion devices in 2015 to 30.7 billion devices in 2020 and 75.4 billion in 2025 - an increase of 60 billion devices over 10 ...
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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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Best of 2017 Technical Content
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: The best content produced by Mouser Electronics in 2017. ...
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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 StarTechnologiesDescription: 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
Description: How do I make use of the Shunt Calibration feature for the model 126? ...
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Signal Conditioner Error Codes
Description: 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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Notes on CW Strippers and Dual Arm DLVA's
From: AnadyneDescription: Logarithmic amplifiers are non linear and therefore when there is an input signal and a second signal arrives while the first signal is present, it will not register the same change in the output as ...
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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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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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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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5G: The Precarious Promise
From: QorvoDescription: A lack of standards for 5G is threatening a move to faster data rates for mobiles, and could also hinder the growth of the internet-of-things and machine-to-machine communication. ...
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Beyond The Horizon
From: QorvoDescription: As GaN storms radar applications, Qorvo is taking the semiconductor to ever-higher frequencies, reports Compound Semiconductor. ...
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Device and PA Circuit Level Validations of a High Power GaN Model Library
From: QorvoDescription: Modelithics and Qorvo are collaborating to provide designers with free access to state-of-the-art high accuracy models for a growing number of power GaN transistors. The available and developing GaN ...
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Energy Efficiency In The Telecommunications Network
From: QorvoDescription: Initiatives by the United States, European Union (EU), and Asia to reduce CO2 emissions from current values, serve the dual purpose of decreasing the telecommunication industry's energy consumption ...
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Evolution of the Smartphone
From: QorvoDescription: In less than 10 years, mobile phones have evolved from tools used mostly for talking and texting to highly complex, sophisticated devices that are central to almost every aspect of our lives. They ...
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Filter Technology Trends in Mobile Wi-Fi Modules
From: QorvoDescription: In smartphones, high performance Wi-Fi is key to satisfying the ever-growing demand for mobile data, because Wi-Fi offloads traffic from operators' LTE networks. Trends in 2017 will include the ...
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Gallium Nitride - Not Just for Defense Anymore
From: QorvoDescription: Once considered a technology solely for defense programs like electronic warfare (EW) and jammers, gallium nitride's advantages are becoming increasingly cost-effective and critical for commercial ...
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GaN Breaks Through Performance Barriers
From: QorvoDescription: Gallium nitride is exerting its strength in myriad communications applications, and suppliers are trying to keep pace by developing solutions for next-generation systems. ...
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How Will 5G Work?
From: QorvoDescription: Sumit Tomar, general manager of the Wireless Infrastructure Products Group at RF chip giant Qorvo, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the development of next-generation 5G wireless ...
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Small Cells Help Keep 5G Connected
From: QorvoDescription: Key to the success of small cells, which boost quality of service in wireless networks, is their high-frequency components that draw upon a number of different technologies. ...
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Unprecedented Integration Driving 5G and IoT at Mobile World Congress 2017
From: QorvoDescription: Mobile World Congress 2017 was all about 5G and getting real. Although there is still much hype in the market, actual trials are underway and companies are getting realistic with what can be rolled ...
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Waiting For 5G Technology
From: QorvoDescription: For some time, carriers, equipment OEMs and chipmakers have been gearing up for the next-generation wireless standard called 5th generation mobile networks, or 5G. ...
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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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Fact File: The Modern-Day Circuit
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: In 1965 Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, famously observed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since integrated circuits were first ...
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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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A Discourse on Intermodulation Noise.
From: AnadyneDescription: This paper is concerned with a specific type of intermodulation noise where the noise around an RF carrier frequency is brought down into the video band when a square law detector is used. ...
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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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Leadless MOSFET Power Package Achieves Near-GaN Switching Losses
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: A new leadless power package drives down on-state resistance and provides close to "GaN-like" switching losses, making a significant step forward in hard switching applications. ...
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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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Design of a Power Module for Automotive and CAV Traction Drives
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: This article will explain the continuum of often conflicting technical and application requirements faced when designing a new IGBT based power module targeted for use in automotive and Commercial, ...
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Five Easy Steps to Create a Multi-Load Power Solution
Description: Every application needs power, but it can often be an afterthought. Engineers may choose a power solution simply based on whether it can meet their load demand and price point. Designing a power ...
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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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Theory of Operation of Logarithmic Amplifiers
From: AnadyneDescription: Discussion of general principles relating to logarithmic amplification. For example no amplifier can produce a logarithmic transfer function over a dynamic range which includes an input signal level ...
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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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High-accuracy Pressure Sensing for Battery-powered and Wearable Devices
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: From autonomous multicopter to fitness monitoring wearables, as well as indoor and outdoor navigation, a growing variety of products and applications require the high-accuracy sensing of static and/or ...
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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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ROHM in Formula E
Description: Making the most out of given energy. That is what counts. It is where ROHM comes in. As the "Official Technology Partner" of Venturi Formula E team. With the key element of the partnership - silicon ...
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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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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, ...