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Oscillator Circuit Design
From: ECS Inc. InternationalDescription: An oscillator is an electronic circuit which generates a repetitive signal. This signal can be in many forms depending on the application. Some applications require a basic clock to maintain ...
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Oscillator Output Types
From: ECS Inc. InternationalDescription: The most common questions asked about oscillators is: what is the difference between single-ended and differential outputs, and what applications are they best suited for? Depending on the application ...
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Getting ESD Protection Right for USB4™
From: NexperiaDescription: At the beginning of September last year, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the publication of the USB4 specification. Offering backward compatibility with USB 3.2, USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt ...
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SEED Delivers OPEN Alliance Compliant ESD Protection
From: NexperiaDescription: The transmission requirements and data payload on automotive networks has and continues to increase significantly. To take the next step we need high-speed, high-bandwidth Automotive Ethernet, and ...
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DFN0606 MOSFETs: Efficiency in the Smallest Packages
From: NexperiaDescription: Getting more from less is the mantra in mobile and portable applications, especially wearables. By using the most efficient switching options available, designers can get more room to embed ...
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LFPAK88: A Very Cool Customer
From: NexperiaDescription: As circuits shrink, thermal performance becomes very important. We compare the LFPAK88's thermal performance with D²PAK and discover the LFPAK88 acquits itself very well. For designers, one of the ...
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Understanding the Basics of Fourier Transforms
Description: I was chatting with my colleague Steve Hanly about his recent post on the Fourier transform and power spectral density, and we thought it might help to go a bit more into the math and guts of the ...
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H-Bridge Driver ICs
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: The reader will be introduced to ROHM's unique product family which incorporates numerous advanced features including high-efficiency PWM outputs, integrated timing and control circuitry as well as ...
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Low Power Microcontroller (Lapis)
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Using Low Cost Microcontrollers for Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, and Humidity Measurement, Display, and Control ...
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SiC - MOSFETs
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: The world has benefitted from technology innovations and continued advancements that have contributed to highly integrated and robust power systems. But all this power can have a downside in the form ...
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Silicon Carbide - Schottky Barrier Diodes
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: The semiconductor industry has a well-established history of "smaller, faster, and cheaper." Improving performance and reducing device cost while shrinking packaging size is fundamental to virtually ...
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Switching Regulators
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Efficient power management is an important design element enabling systems developers to overcome increasing demands for compact size, low-power operation and improved functionality. In addition, many ...
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How do we Help Designers Face System Mission Computer Challenges Today?
From: Teledyne e2vDescription: There are multiple challenges that Systems Mission Computer designers are facing today. Their ultimate target is to design more powerful and complex deterministic systems, embedding a high amount of ...
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Teledyne e2v Helps Reduce Power Consumption in Commercial Processors
From: Teledyne e2vDescription: System designers using commercial processors often wish to embed more processing capabilities in their application, while their authorized power budget may be limited by the project requirements & ...
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Teledyne e2v Microprocessors: High Reliability Differentiators
From: Teledyne e2vDescription: Let's play a technical quiz today...are you ready? Are you able to list the top requirements of critical heavy computing systems such as Avionics, Space & Defense systems in less than 15 seconds? Did ...
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Learning About Ohm's Law, GPIO and Transistors with Flashing LEDs on Raspberry Pi
Description: Learning About Ohm's Law, GPIO and Transistors with Flashing LEDs on Raspberry Pi ...
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LoRa and LoRaWAN Timing
From: ECS Inc. InternationalDescription: LoRa (Long-Range) is digital wireless data communication IoT technology. LoRa transmits over license-free megahertz radio frequency bands: 169 MHz, 433 MHz (Asia), 868 MHz (Europe) and 915 MHz (North ...
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LoRaWAN Technology
From: ECS Inc. InternationalDescription: LoRaWAN (Long-Range Wide Area Network) is a type of data communication for wide area wireless networks. It is designed to allow long-range data acquisition at a low bit rate between connected sensors ...
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Case Study: Automotive Pressure Transducers
From: Merit Sensor SystemsDescription: A pressure sensor that could take the heat. Our client was in search of a pressure sensor with elevated temperature performance capabilities for an automatic transmission application. They required a ...
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LFPAK88 Takes a Shorter Path to Efficiency
From: NexperiaDescription: By eliminating internal bond wires and reducing source lead length, Nexperia's LFPAK88 minimizes parasitic source inductance created during switching, resulting in greater efficiency. While ...
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Seeking the Perfect Power Switch
From: NexperiaDescription: Choosing a low RDS(on) MOSFET for an efficient low loss power switching application? Don't forget to check there are no hidden compromises. ...
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Gate Drive Evaluation Platform Application Note
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: The gate driver evaluation platform (GDEV) is an evaluation kit that has been designed to demonstrate the continuous operation of SiC power MOSFETs and diodes in a half bridge configuration. ...
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Wafer Fabrication Processing Technology Explained
Description: The processing of Silicon wafers to produce XMR (AMR / GMR / TMR) sensors involves a good deal of chemistry and physics. ...
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Healing from Injuries Just Got Easier Thanks to These Devices
Description: Most health electronics you've heard of are good at tracking your fitness. You can track your step count with a pedometer. You can also get data on your heart rate. Some devices even give claim to ...
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Operating Principles of Buck Switching Regulator
Description: Whereas in the preceding section we explained that the switching regulator is capable of performing buck (step down), boost (step up), buck/boost (step down and up), and inverting conversions, moving ...
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Power Supply Specifications and Replacement Circuit
Description: The purpose of this design is to use the BM1R001xxF series of secondary-side synchronous rectifying controller ICs to perform synchronous rectification in an AC/DC converter that uses diode ...
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Supplement-Current Paths during Synchronous Rectifying Step-Down Converter Operation
Description: in this article an explanation is given of the current paths during synchronous rectifying step-down converter operation, which may be regarded as standard operation in the high-efficiency DC/DC ...
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Synchronous Rectifying Circuit Section: Selection of Synchronous Rectifying MOSFET
Description: Keeping in mind the "Example of Power Supply Specifications and Replacement Circuit" of the previous article, we begin actual circuit design ...
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Is Today's Accepted MOSFET Figure of Merit Still Relevant?
From: NexperiaDescription: We are all accustomed to looking at the Figure of Merit for MOSFETs as a product of RDS(on) and Qg. However, with gate drivers now capable of efficiently meeting large Qg requirements and faster ...
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Why Trench Schottky Rectifiers are the Preferred Choice
From: NexperiaDescription: When it comes to any system, to achieve the most efficient design we try to utilize the most ideal solution possible. Compared to their planar counterparts, Trench Schottky rectifiers take us much ...
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Embedded Systems Design Guide for Removable USB Flash Drives
From: DatakeyDescription: Implementing an embedded system with a removable USB flash drive can be a difficult task. Knowing the key concepts and considerations beforehand can make the job much easier. ...
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How to Choose Portable Memory for Embedded Systems
From: DatakeyDescription: While most embedded system components are sourced from OEM-focused manufacturers, portable memory devices are a gray area. The high-volume consumer electronics market - estimated at $200 billion ...
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Removable Memory Key to Successful OTA Firmware Updates
From: DatakeyDescription: A well-known principle of embedded products states that the more complex a device firmware is, the higher the probability that it will need to be replaced in the field. More code means more bugs. More ...
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Wireless Coexistence: Pairing Wireless Medical Devices
From: DatakeyDescription: From smart thermostats to Wi-Fi enabled dishwashers, smart, connected devices are all around us. These technologies present original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a variety of challenges which ...
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Design Consideration: Cycle Life of Connectors
From: DatakeyDescription: If you have an embedded design project in your future, be sure to consider connector cycle life. How long it will take to reach the rated cycle life of the various connectors used, and what is the ...
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Not All SD Cards Are Created Equal
From: DatakeyDescription: How can embedded system manufacturers make sure their users don't use unsupported or counterfeit SD cards? ...
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Portable Memory in IoT Applications
From: DatakeyDescription: Removable memory can be used with IoT or cloud-connected devices to provide ID or location information ...
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RUGGEDrive Torture Test Video
From: DatakeyDescription: Who doesn't love a good product torture test video? Watch what happens when a 120,000-pound tank runs over a USB flash drive, an SD card and a Datakey RUGGEDrive ...
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Security Risks of USB Ports on Embedded Devices
From: DatakeyDescription: A recent BBC article explained how USB devices can be used for malicious purposes without the user opening an infected file on a USB flash drive. ...
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Thwarting Elbonians with Proprietary Memory Devices
From: DatakeyDescription: a simple physical-layer security feature can be sufficient to prevent access by those who lack the knowledge or motivation to circumvent it. ...
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World's Toughest SD Card
From: DatakeyDescription: Are there SD cards that are physically more robust than others, when they all use the same form factor? The video in this blog post shows destructive testing of SD cards. ...
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You Just Bricked Hundreds of Devices. Now What?
From: DatakeyDescription: An over-the-air (OTA) update just bricked hundreds of remote devices. Now what? ...
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Combination or Configurable Logic: When to Use Which and How?
From: NexperiaDescription: Combination and configurable logic devices provide the flexibility to implement various logic functions with a reduced pin count. Combination and configurable logic can also lower system cost, ...
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How it Works - Micropulse
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: Explanation and details of how a micropulse works in a transducer ...
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Turning up the Heat on Reliability and Reduce the Chances of a Thermal Failure with Diodes, Bipolar Transistors and MOSFETs that are Specified Up to 175°C
From: NexperiaDescription: Reducing the chances of a thermal failure. Nexperia offers a wide and growing range of diodes, bipolar transistors and MOSFETs that have a junction temperature specified up to 175 °C Some things never ...
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Surge Protection Device Sizing for Industrial Control Panel Design
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: Panel design is an art. A well-designed panel strikes a balance of form, function, and cost. Find out more by downloading our application guide. ...
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Active Photonics Alignment - Live Demos at Photonics West
Description: The new area of silicon photonics is being driven by us. We walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. We consume streaming media. We participate in social networks. We benefit from personalized ...
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Detecting Manufacturing Defects on Semiconductor Wafers Using a Digital Microscope
From: Olympus America, Inc.Description: Semiconductors are essential components in many electronic devices. Semiconductor manufacturing can be broken down into two processes-circuit formation and packaging. Circuit formation begins with ...
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Enabling The Latest In Industrial Digital Signage
From: WinSystems, Inc.Description: The age of digital signage is upon us. Just driving down the highway shows examples of billboards that rotate their messages as we pass. In many scenarios, signage that can recognize what’s ...
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Noise Source Series Delivers High Outputs to 18 GHz
From: PasternackDescription: Noise sources have long served as practical test tools for evaluating different aspects of communications systems. In fact, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) sources helped establish many early ...
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Ready for IPv6
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In case you missed the news, the North American well has finally run dry on IP (IPv4 - 32 bit) addresses. What's been happening for the past few years in Asia, Europe, and Latin America - i.e., the ...
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Big news on the semi-conductor front
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: There's been so much change in the semiconductor world these days, it's hard to keep up with it all. Last week, it was the Avago-Broadcom deal. This week, with the agreement that Intel will acquire ...
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Control System Basics - PNP vs. NPN Logic
From: Sealevel Systems, Inc.Description: In the third installment of this five-part series, Jon Titus explores the basic elements of a control system. In the first two installments, Jon covered relays and sink vs. source control. ...
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Moore's Law Turns 50
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Moore's Law is based on an observation that Gordon Moore, who co-founded Intel, made that year in which he stated that, looking back over the hardware history, the number of transistors in an ...
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Trends Impacting the Semiconductor Industry in the Next Three Years
Description: Arguably, at no point in the history of electronics has so much change happened all at once than right now. Digital transformation, the proliferation of technologies enabling the smart city and smart ...
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The What and Why of Intrinsic I-V Waveforms
From: QorvoDescription: This is the third blog in an ongoing series looking at the importance of GaN HEMT nonlinear models for rapid power amplifier (PA) design success. ...
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What are semiconductors?
From: Conax TechnologiesDescription: Semiconductors are the brains of all modern electronics, with the ability to make billions of computations per second and store vast quantities of data. It's because of their incredible processing ...
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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. ...