Design FAQs

Design FAQs

May 17, 2013

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Design FAQ: Safety and regulatory issues for optocouplers

What is the difference between an isolation withstand voltage and working voltage for an optocoupler? The UL1577 rating of 3750Vrms per minute or 5000Vrms per minute means that devices can survive and isolate transient (1min) voltage spikes with these values...More
Mar. 6, 2013

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Electronic Design

Design FAQ: The Path To High-Performance NAND Flash

How can I take advantage of NAND flash? NAND flash is available in a number of configurations ranging from raw NAND flash to Universal Flash Storage (UFS)...More
Feb. 6, 2013

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Electronic Design

Design FAQ: Reliability Challenges Emerge With NAND Flash Migration

How do die shrinks affect NAND reliability as capacity increases? Smaller lithography leads to higher densities...More
Sep. 14, 2012

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Electronic Design

Design FAQs: Enterprise Flash

NAND flash technology is ubiquitous but it encounters challenges in the enterprise. Find out how flash memory vendors are tuning...More
Jul. 23, 2012

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Electronic Design

Design FAQs: NAND Flash

It is the 25th anniversary for NAND flash and multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash has now been around for a decade...More
Mar. 12, 2012

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Electronic Design

Design FAQ: Digital Power Myths 2

Myths, even those about digital power, usually contain a portion of truth and a portion of misunderstanding. Electronic Design's Don Tuite and Intersil's Chris Young set the record straight on a number of myths about regulation and power management in the digital domain.-Intersil...More
Nov. 5, 2009

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Electronic Design

Clocking Data Converters

Sponsored FAQ on selecting clock chips for optimum data converter performance...More
Jul. 23, 2009

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Electronic Design

Chopper-Stabilized Op Amps

Chopper-stabilized op amps constantly correct low-frequency errors across the inputs of the amplifier, making them attractive alternatives to conventional op amps in many industrial, medical, energy, and automotive applications....More
Nov. 25, 2008

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Electronic Design

FPGA Improves Basestation Design

What are some of the challenges facing basestation designers today? The five biggest are the numerous wireless standards that must be accommodated, increased and complex frequency assignments, increased operating efficiency, capital...More
Sep. 25, 2008

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Electronic Design

Short-Range Radios Enable Wireless Everything

Download the full article as a .PDF, sponsored by Analog What is a short-range radio? A short-range radio or short-range device (SRD) is a highly integrated transceiver usually on a single chip that’s used to implement a wide range of...More