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Measure temperature precisely with an infrared thermometer

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"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for Sept. 6, 2010; plus recent "Planet Analog" Newsletters

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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 2

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LED improvements extend automotive applications

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"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for Sept. 6, 2010; plus recent "Planet Analog" Newsletters

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Signal Chain Basics #45: Is high-speed ADC clock jitter being over-specified for communication systems?

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Power Tip 27: Paralleling power supplies using the droop method

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Measuring fetal heart rates accurately and safely--without ultrasound

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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 1

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Technical Papers

Current Sensing Circuit Concepts and Fundamentals

Coupled inductors broaden DC/DC converter usage

Computing power going "Platinum"

Why Simulation Matters: A Case for Riviera-PRO

The Impact of Digital Oscilloscope Blind Time on Your Measurements

Courses and Webinars

Linaro 10.11 release and beyond

Editorial Webinar: High Performance RF and High Speed Dataconverters for Military Radio

Telepresence of Everyday Terminals

How to Verify the Data in Your LTE Downlink Signal

Conquering the Memory Bandwidth Bottleneck On-Chip

Teardowns

Teardown: Inside the art of pulse oximetry

Ear bud headphones jam lots of complexity in a tiny package

Eye-Fi uses Secure Digital (SD) card slot for Wi-Fi in cameras

Teardown: Inside Cisco's Flip UltraHD digital camcorder

UPDATE: B'com, Toshiba win sockets in iPhone 3GS

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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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Commentary

Portable test instrument battery life drops precipitously

Timothy Loose

It worked on the test bench, what now was draining the instrument's NiCad batteries?

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Book Review: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Clive Maxfield

This little scamp is jam-packed with interesting nuggets of knowledge and tidbits of trivia about the periodic table and the elements it represents – it's way more interesting than I would ever have imagined.

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Yes I am in the midst of this book right now. Very interesting read! I would also recommend ...

The non-gas car: bounded by physics on one side; the harshness of the road on the other

Bill Schweber

Dreams are good, but it's important to keep these barriers in mind as well

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There could be a system benefit, because you can compress air and leave the compressed air in ...

Kinky coax and a jerry-rigged reflectometer

Glen Chenier

A young engineer gets more practical hands-on transmission line training in ten minutes than from all his fancy textbook education

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Others have said: "The world is going digital." "Digital is a form of saturated analog." "During ...

In-vehicle Internet grows slow and steady

Rick DeMeis

The popularity of smart phone apps is driving demand for in-vehicle Internet connectivity.

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From Rick's story, the following "The system denies a connection when the vehicle is in motion," ...

Avnet and Actel offer great SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGA workshops

Clive Maxfield

Avnet Memec and Actel are hosting a series of one-day workshop that provide hands-on experience working with Actel's SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs and design tools.

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The Avnet Speedways were specific to North America, although they also ran events in Europe earlier ...

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Modernizing the peer code review process
Your discussion does not seem to include any comments on how the open source community is able to ...
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Self-repairing solar cell is bio-inspired
It's amazing what highly intricate levels of design we see in nature. Most designers would agree ...
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ARM, in servers push, describes Cortex A15 CPU
Weatherhead - you are absolutely correct. Cortex-A15 is a 32-bit processor. Server workloads tend to ...
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Enter the EE Life August 2010 Cartoon Caption Contest

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Apple should build a fab

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Why China should bar Cisco, Moto and HP

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Opinion: Microsoft dying? Don't bet on it

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Mandating an FM radio in every cell phone: what are they thinking, and why?

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