Technical Articles
Renesas Electronics Corporation has published these technical articles:
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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The RZ/A Software Package Simplifies and Accelerates Camera-GUI-Display Implementations for Human Machine Interfaces....
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power Supplies)
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Many new FPGAs are typically designed using advanced technology to achieve low power consumption while providing high performance. Those FPGAs use the new fabrication process that tends to require a...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power Supplies)
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The DC/DC buck converter is one of the most popular and widely used power supply topologies, finding
applications in industrial, servers, telecom, and automotive sectors. The non-isolated buck...
(Audio and Video IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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,...
(IC Interface Devices)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Power Supplies)
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The explosive growth of cloud services has driven major advancements in data center, networking and
telecom equipment. The next wave underway is the Internet of Things (IoT) with its billions of...
(IC Interface Devices)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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The USB-C™ port is a true all-in-one port capable of delivering bi-directional data and up to 100W of power. However, adopting USB-C charging requires a fundamental change to the existing power...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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,...
(Audio and Video IC)
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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...
(Power Supplies)
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With the ever-increasing performance of application processors and GPUs used in mobile devices, the need for a buck-boost regulator to stabilize the Li-ion battery supply-voltage terminals is becoming...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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,...
(IC Interface Devices)
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Automotive HUDs are benefiting from big innovations in MEMS projection systems and are now central to ADAS and safety. The latest laser scanned-MEMS projection systems can provide higher resolution...
(Power Supplies)
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There are a many different ways to implement a buck regulator. In order to determine which solution delivers the performance and features needed for a given requirement, it is important for system...
(IC Interface Devices)
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RS-485 has been widely deployed because of its large differential signal swing and reliable operation over a wide common-mode voltage range. However, with this widespread use comes an increasing...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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While the 12-volt lead acid battery is still the dominant power source in automobiles, there are new automotive applications that require higher voltages. To address these high voltage applications, a...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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By their very nature, in amps are a good choice to condition small signals in the presence of large common-mode voltages and DC potentials. The three op amp instrumentation amplifier architecture...
(IC Interface Devices)
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With so many transceivers on the market, it can be challenging to pick the best, most cost effective device for your application. This in-depth white paper guides you through the choices and weighs...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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In recent years, the efficiency of a battery in terms of how much power it can output with respect to size and weight has dramatically improved. This ongoing transformation of battery technology has...
(Power Supply and Conditioning)
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LDOs are one of the most commonly used devices for voltage regulation. However, many of their key performance parameters are not utilized to their full potential. While cost is a very important...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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In most step-down power conversions where multiple output voltages are required to regulate off a single input source, the switching regulators can impose high input RMS current and noise to the POL...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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In high voltage applications where a lower output voltage is required, designers have traditionally relied on modules that increase system cost, or two stage DC/DC solutions that increase solution...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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There are many choices of sensing elements to measure current to a load, and the choices of current sensing elements can be sorted by applications, as well as the magnitude of the current measured. No...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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The market for battery powered motor driven products is growing rapidly with the introduction of brushless motors and Li-ion batteries, and because of their ability to extend operating time, even...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Using ORing controllers and power FETs in place of ORing power diodes can minimize power loss in high-current power distribution systems. This article discusses key selection steps for choosing power...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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System designers are constantly challenged to create smaller, more efficient and cost effective solutions that will place wearables on the wrists of many more people. Battery life is an important...
(Data Conversion)
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When a satellite is launched into space, it's accompanied with a multitude of sensors that read out various telemetry signals and statuses for mission critical systems. Digital microprocessors...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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This article from Intersil discusses a multi-layer PCB layout method that uses via placements to maximize the thermal performance of a dual phase power module. The module features two single phase...
(Proximity or Presence Sensing)
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The development of the market for tablets and smartphones has shown the power of novel, attractive industrial design to build strong market positions for OEMs. As the attention widens out to wearable...
(IC Interface Devices)
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The trend in high-speed data networks continues to push for higher data rates over longer transmission distances, and under ever-harsher conditions. This article provides system designers new to...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Today's latest FPGAs, processors, ASICs and associated memories in various industrial equipment have raised the performance requirement significantly on the point-of-load (POL) power converter...
(Power Supplies)
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The ever-increasing demands of FPGAs, processors and ASICs are pushing point-of-load (POL) power converters to the limit. Not only do they occupy more motherboard real estate, but they also require...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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The broadband and smartphone revolutions have dramatically changed how we consume and interact with information in our professional and private lives. Storage and computing servers, colloquially known...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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New trends and changing requirements in the power management industry influence how we design power supplies. Some, like the need for telemetry and system information, are more recent due to...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Supercapacitors are adopted as energy storage solutions in a variety of power management applications. Because of their intrinsic physical characteristics that provide advantages over traditional...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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The increase of voltage input rails for delivering point-of-load power to DSPs, ASICs, FPGAs and microprocessors is creating more challenges for power supply designers. Especially as system power and...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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DDR memory is becoming increasingly popular in satellite and space applications. However, no power solution can survive the harsh environments of space while meeting the power requirements of the VTT...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Careful consideration must be given to the selection of a suitable battery management IC that is optimized for the rigors of automotive applications. Proprietary communication protocols and careful...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Systems engineers have come up with creative solutions to increase battery life, and while most power requirements are already integrated into a smartphone and tablet's power management IC (PMIC),...
(Communication IC)
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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...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Integrated circuits (ICs) are a vital component in almost all fields of the modern world. As a result, power management in these ICs has become more and more critical. From consumer products such as...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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System designers everywhere are under enormous pressure. They're being tasked with integrating more power and features in ever-shrinking form factors, and thus adversely affecting the system's...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Digital power management and control provide real-time intelligence that enables system developers to build power systems that automatically adapt to their environment and optimize efficiency. The use...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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Today's power systems for communications and computing infrastructure support high current loads from increasingly power hungry FPGAs, ASICs and microprocessors. To meet the challenge of designing the...
(Power Supplies)
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Digital power modules provide the benefits of both digital power and power modules, and support the growing industry trend toward high-efficiency power conversion. This article explores the benefits...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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With the continuing industry trends towards smaller, faster and higher power devices, thermal management is becoming increasingly important. After all, higher device performance can come at a...
(Networking Equipment)
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The CAN protocol is a proven, highly reliable communication system for harsh environments and has been used in automotive and industrial applications for over 30 years. The CAN two-wire bus...
(Data Conversion)
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When selecting a component in the signal path of a satellite system, it is often difficult to find a device with the radiation tolerance and the accuracy required. The main causes of error to the...