Communications Design Features

Modularity provides functional, economical tire-pressure monitoring

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 4

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Compliance to Power-over-Ethernet safety standards is critical when moving beyond 60W

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Mobile Internet basics: IkeV3 and MOBIKE

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Test mobile devices by emulating the radio channel

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Testing modern MIMO Wi-Fi and LTE radios

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MOST150 points to technology tipping point

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EMC Basics #13: EMC shielding--destroying a shield

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RF in Action: Ultra-high-performance design

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Technical Papers

RF, Microwave, and Optoelectronic Packaging Die and Wire Bonding Case Studies

Enabling Entry-Level Mobile Innovation

An introduction to the Wireless Power Consortium standard and TI's compliant solutions

Methods of controlling multiple LED strings with C2000 MCUs

Power spikes isolation to avoid corruption within sensitive ICs

Harmonic Distortion Measurments in the Presence of Noise

Courses and Webinars

Video over LTE—Testing the next step in the end user experience

Intelligent Systems: Defined by Connectivity, Cloud, and Data

Frequency Synthesis, Part 1: Phased Locked Loops

The RoHS Revision: RoHS 2011/65/EU

Time Correlation of Analog, Digital and RF Signals

Teardowns

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

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

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Yukyung marshals army of chip vendors for Viliv tablet

Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab: Taking on the iPad

Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

N8: Solid start for Nokia’s Symbian^3 strategy

CE parts met cockpit avionics in vintage F-15 video camera

Omron home blood pressure monitor taps semiconductor scaling

Innovation at home: Inside a 3-D desktop scanner

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Reference Designs

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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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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Products

Analog Devices releases 3.5GHz PLL synthesizers

Test solution troubleshoots cellular networks

Low-power, secure 802.11n Wi-Fi module targets M2M app explosion

TP5000 NTP delivers 120,000 transactions/sec.

Surge stopper provides overvoltage protection

Samplify Systems announces APAX application acceleration technology

Commentary

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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That's why I NEVER leave my car unattended without a steering wheel lock. Even if some mutt managed ...

Collaboration leads to a faster Signal Integrity Solution

Brian Bailey

Synopsys and Sigrity accelerate signal integrity simulation of high-speed systems through cooperation…

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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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Turning down the noise: When 'low' keeps getting lower

Robert Green

The desire to extend a wireless product’s battery life by reducing power consumption is driving IC manufacturers to develop devices that operate at extremely low current levels. Characterizing the level of current these devices consume requires test engineers to make very low-level current measurements with high accuracy.

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- and as we push the boundaries to produce more and more cheaply-made digital logic-driven devices ...

High-tech conference promises help with design

Janine Love

DesignCon 2012 starts January 30 and ends February 2nd in the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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January 2012 caption contest: Tee time

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The elephant in the corner

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LED lighting control using powerline communication

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