Electronic Design reports from the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Orlando, FL with slideshows, videos, and updates on the latest in power electronics.
When your bench supply's capacitors are all charged up with nowhere for that charge to go, an active down-programmer is a handy technique that brings rise and fall times back into a viable range.
Cavium's OCTEON III is built around 48 MIPS64 cores along with major hardware accelerators to handle everything from RAID to packet processing.
Learn about the powerful capabilities of the Tektronix MDO Series to debug today’s complex designs, and the unique architecture that enables it all.
Don Tuite
Mat Dirjish
Louis E. Frenzel
By William Wong, February 08, 2012
Freescale has finally taken off the wrapping around the 12-core, 24-thread T4240 QorIQ processor with hardware power scheduling support.
By David Maliniak, February 07, 2012
Accurate thermal management depends on accurate simulation models. Mentor Graphics' thermal characterization and analysis methodology builds thermal models of IC packages and LEDs for use in FloTHERM thermal simulations.
By William Wong, February 07, 2012
By Murat Ozkan, February 06, 2012
Low power is the primary design goal with no sign of changing anytime soon. The following discussion hones in on microcontroller-based design from a firmware perspective, as this is represents a broad set of low-power applications.
Communications / Paul Whytock
Digital / Joseph Desposito
Digital / Paul Whytock
Analog & Mixed Signal / Bob Pease
Test & Measurement / Bob Zollo
Communications / Mark Downing
Embedded / Mahshad Koohgoli
Embedded / Scott Sarnikowski
Recent chips keep an eye on what your car is doing so you can keep your eyes on the road.
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