Although the scope of presentations at next month’s IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference covers a wide range of technologies, this year’s theme of embedded systems highlights key technologies that are essential to create...
A number of diverse announcements have rolled across the desk recently, starting with Motorola’s SCDMA module library for the MRC6011 Reconfigurable Compute Fabric (RCF) device...
The ZL5041x Ethernet switches make it possible to cost-effectively aggregate 16 ports of 100-Mbit/s Ethernet and incorporate the quality-of-service (QoS) features that are becoming a necessity in many Ethernet systems...
The board market is always looking for novel ways to provide high-performance platforms. Mercury Computer Systems enters the fray by using RapidIO in its new ImpactRT 3100 system...
RS-485 networks have been around for over 20 years, serving automated factories, chemical/petroleum plants, building HVAC installations, test and measurement systems, and medical and security applications...
Dear Bob: My first car was a 1955 secondhand Cadillac DeVille convertible; tube radio, automatic station seeker, service every 1000 miles, total life 100,000 miles (Swiss miles, up the mountains), end of life due to multiple mechanical...
Intellectual property (IP) developer inSilicon Corp. has inked a distribution deal with worldwide semiconductor distributor Insight Electronics. This deal lets Insight add inSilicon's communication IPs onto Xilinx's FPGAs for...
Inexpensive Ethernet-based mi-croprocessor core modules keep the price of networked devices down while simplifying development. The RCM2100 series of Ethernet microprocessor cores from Rabbit Semiconductor packs an 8-bit, 22.1-MHz Rabbit 2000...
Reliability tops the list of requirements for embedded applications. Without it, products can come to a grinding halt, act in abnormal ways, or even cause serious damage. Good design is the key to reliable systems. Meanwhile, tools like CodeTEST 3.0...
In 1999, Murata Electronics first began to see industry acceptance of ceramic capacitors as substitutes for hard-to-get tantalum caps. Passive-component producers had adapted to the needs of their customers, producing ceramic capacitors with the...
Many low-cost and portable systems, including small consumer electronic products, operate from unregulated power supplies such as batteries or external, plug-in “power bricks.” These power sources sometimes produce lower-than-nominal output...
Illustrated is an interface circuit that allows a PC to read 16 channels of digital inputs (see the figure). The circuit is connected to the PC’s COM1 serial port directly. The same serial port also powers...
A previously submitted Idea For Design by Jim Wood (“ ‘Beeper’ Finds Short Circuits,” Oct. 24, 1996 “BEST OF ISSUE” SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO ELECTRONIC DESIGN, p. 18) impressed me because of the circuit’s simplicity to realize a useful...
Repetitive pulse bursts are required for impulse testing and for burst data-transmission schemes. Impulse testing subjects the device under test to a unit impulse or doublet, and the response waveform is analyzed to determine the circuit’s...
Electrical simulators are widely used in biological research for the study of evoked potentials in man and other applications. Indeed, versions are on sale in local health stores or via mail order for treatment of pain. However, for the stimulation to...
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