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June 30, 2009
eBook: Building Battery Arrays with Lithium-Ion Cells
Large scale arrays based on Li-ion batteries can provide the high voltage, current, and capacity required by many emerging portable markets; however, there are numerous problems facing the designers of larger battery packs, and this paper outlines the techniques for achieving high voltage or capacity by building high cell count arrays.
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ED News Staff
May 26, 2009
Low Power Microcontroller-based Design Techniques
Technology Editor Bill Wong talks to Brant Ivey, Application Engineer at Microchip, about low power microcontroller system design. Low power design tends to be application specific so there is a lot of ground to cover. Brant touches on a range of power related issues and discusses ways to reduce power consumption.
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William Wong
May 26, 2009
Touch Sensing Basics
Keith Curtis, Technical Staff Engineer at Microchip, gives Technology Editor Bill Wong a detailed overview on microcontroller-based touch sensing solutions. This includes capacitive and induction touch sensing solutions including how it works and issues that arise using various approaches. Just the thing to get started with touch sensing designs.
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William Wong
May 18, 2009
Holding Out For Windows 7: A Wise Move?
While most businesses have soundly rejected Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and are tenaciously hanging on to Windows XP until the company comes out with a better OS, the day of reckoning approaches. The reason: Microsoft drove another stake into XP’s heart in April when it officially ended “mainstream support” for the OS.
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Joe Dysart
May 13, 2009
WI-FI 101
Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) is one of the most widely used non-cellular wireless technologies. Wi-Fi is the trade name for products and systems that use the IEEE’s 802.11 standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN).
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Louis E. Frenzel
May 7, 2009
DSP Doubles Floating Point Performance
Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Charlie Ice, Product Marketing Manager
for Texas Instruments, about the new 300 MHz Delfino C2834x DSP that doubles
the floating point performance of its predecessor. It is ideal for a range of
applications including high performance motor control.
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William Wong
April 30, 2009
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) 101
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) is a rugged PC-based platform that offers a high-performance, low-cost means of deploying measurement and automation systems.
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David Maliniak
April 28, 2009
Timing Jitter 101
In any system that uses voltage transitions to represent timing information, jitter is an unfortunate part of the equation. In essence, jitter is the deviation of timing edges from their intended locations.
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David Maliniak
April 27, 2009
Intelligent Testbench 101
Functional verification of large SoC/ASIC designs has always been a catch-22 situation. How does the verification engineer decide that enough simulations have been run on a functional block or full chip? When has he or she thrown enough test vectors at the design to be confident that sufficient coverage has been achieved?
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David Maliniak
April 24, 2009
Electronic System Level (or ESL) 101
ESL refers to design activity at the electronic-system level, a way of defining SoC system architecture at a relatively high level of abstraction.
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David Maliniak
April 17, 2009
Electronic Design In Depth: Silicon Border
Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito speaks with D.J. Hill, CEO of Silicon Border, an eco-friendly science and technology park based in Mexicali, Mexico. (52 min)
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ED News Staff
March 9, 2009
One Powerful Day
Join us on March 31, 2009 for another One Powerful Day!
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Staff
February 26, 2009
LM5001 Backgrounder
The LM5001, developed by National Semiconductor, is a high-voltage switch-mode regulator containing all of the functions necessary to implement efficient high-voltage boost, flyback, SEPIC, and forward converters, using few external components.
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Robert M. Hanrahan
February 20, 2009
APEC Interview: TI Improves FET Performance Thanks To Ciclon's High-Performance CMOS FETs
If there was a big buzz about anything at APEC, it was about TI's brilliant move in snapping up the Bethlem, Penn. company and its portfolio of IP related to extremely high-performance CMOS FETs. I had an opportunity to talk to Ciclon Semiconductor founder Mark Granahan, along with Texas Instruments’ senior power-management VP, Steve Anderson about TI's acquisition of Ciclon.
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Don Tuite
February 18, 2009
PFC Controller Integrates Resonant Controller
The NCP1901 power factor correction (PFC) controller from ON Semi integrates a resonant half-bridge controller into a single package, enabling off-line adapters with a minimal form factor while meeting worldwide efficiency standards.
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ED News Staff
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