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Extreme Design: When radar failure at 12,000 feet is not an option

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"Also of Interest" for February 6, 2012

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Prediction and negative-delay filters: Five things you should know

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Battery fuel gauge: factual or fallacy?

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Measuring and understanding oscilloscope update rate

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A short history of spread spectrum

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Dream devices that would revolutionize healthcare

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"Also of Interest" for January 30, 2012

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Modularity provides functional, economical tire-pressure monitoring

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Coupling a Supercapacitor with a Small Energy Harvesting Source

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Technical Papers

New Class of Nanopower Analog ICs Enable Sub-1V, Micropower Current Sensing Techniques

Regulators Produce Clean, Efficient, High Current Point-of-Load Power for FPGA, Server Backplanes

Keep Power Consumption in Check with Low-Power Comparators that Autosense Plugged-In Accessories

Analog Circuit Design: Chapter 3

Harvest Energy from a Single Photovoltaic Cell

Courses and Webinars

NXP Analog Switch Design and Applications

Optimized Low-Voltage BCDMOS Technology and Analog Supply Chain Ecosystem

Fundamentals of Designing with Semiconductors for Signal Processing Applications: Analog to Digital Converters

Fundamentals of Choosing and Using A/D and D/A Converters

Fundamentals of Power-Supply Distribution Topologies

Teardowns

Electric motorbike teardown

Video: Tear down that Prius!

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

New H-PSOF power-electronics packaging touts high-current capability and high efficiency

ST overcomes LED camera flash limitations

Avago amplifier cleans signal quality and drops power usage

Wideband I/Q demodulator improves receiver performance

Analog Devices’ FMC boards support Xilinx’s Targeted Design Platforms

Waveform analyzer plug-in smokes at 50 GHz/32 Gbps so engineers can stay cool

Analog front end targets femtocells and software-defined radio

Quad 40-V precision amplifiers feature low noise and consumption

Analog Devices releases 3.5GHz PLL synthesizers

2.5 V voltage reference IC reduces drift to a guaranteed 7ppm/°C maximum

Commentary

How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls

Clive Maxfield

In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...

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On a less humourous note was the rumour of the TV screwman who would plug the "cheater cord" ...

How to solve $16.7 billion product returns problem

David Douthit

The United States consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.

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Returns and allowances are a very big problem for any business....The japanese initially kicked our ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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My favourite test for techs is a simple diagram of 4-20mA loop between two boxes. One containing the ...

For those who don't think science is exciting...

Clive Maxfield

In 1927 the world’s longest-continuously-running scientific experiment was kicked off, which means this little rascal has now been running for 85 years...

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Now that I think about it, Kelvin may have invented "The Slunky" ;-)

DesignCon Panel: Is it time for an analog comeback?

Brian Bailey

Organizing panels is a balancing act between making sure the panelists have enough in common and yet not quite agreeing…

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Targeting RF key security

Rick DeMeis

How secure are your RFID car key and other devices—to be afraid, or not?

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Can't you unlock a steering wheel lock with a bump key?

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

Bill Schweber

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?

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This is the golden age of DIY, enabled by fast infomation exchange and low cost manufacturing ...

DesignCon 2012 Panel: Test gurus share vision to accelerate your ‘time to answer’

Patrick Mannion

The countdown begins: On Wednesday next at DesignCon 2012 http://www.designcon.com I’ll be moderating a panel comprising four of the sharpest minds in the electronics industry as they explore the cutting edge of technology and what it means for you, the test engineer.

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Chevy Volt flap: What's the big deal?

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Has a radical idea ever been the solution to your intractable problem?

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Chips in Space: Lessons learned (Part 2)

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Location Is Everything: Improving Performance with Interactive LDE Estimation

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