Industrial Control Design Features

Measure temperature precisely with an infrared thermometer

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Reducing battery discharge rates in CR-2032-based portable embedded designs

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LED improvements extend automotive applications

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Using requirements planning in embedded systems design: Part 5 - Managing communications between tasks

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Evaluating platform software architectures for nextgen embedded multicore designs

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Virtualization options for embedded multicore systems

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Using requirements planning in embedded systems design: Part 6 – Determining your system’s task timing parameters

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Using requirements planning in embedded systems design: Part 4 - Defining the system-level design

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What is ambient temperature, anyway, and why does it matter?

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The basics of doing PID design: Part 1 - Classical control theory

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Technical Papers

Solving Industrial Monitoring Challenges through Wireless I/O

Why Simulation Matters: A Case for Riviera-PRO

Performance and Measurement of DPI Technologies - Proposal for a Common Testing Methodology: DPIBench

Swept Sine Chirps for Measuring Impulse Response

Courses and Webinars

Getting started with the high voltage motor control + PFC

Input Overvoltage Protection

High-Voltage PFC Kit Overview

Teardowns

Micron drives process integration with 42-nm DDR3 SDRAM

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

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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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Commentary

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 ...

FPGA-to-ASIC conversion with zero NRE

Clive Maxfield

KaiSemi performs automated FPGA-to-ASIC conversion with Zero NRE, functional guarantee, and a very short cycle time; this is a full turnkey solution that is seamless to the customer.

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Hi there -- re your questions -- I don't know the answers yet -- but keep the questions coming and ...

Lighting and System Design: Coming soon to a computer near you

John Donovan

To help engineers catch up with the latest developments in lighting technologies and applications, Digi-Key and EE Times are presenting a virtual conference titled "Lighting and System Design" on Aug. 26.

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All said, there are still challenges abound in the LED market which are a deterrent to its smooth ...

More about mediocrity

Jack Crenshaw

Jack Crenshaw continues his discussion about strategies to employ to improve software quality and whether or not quality software come from quality people, or can you get quality software from mediocre people?

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Mediocrity starts at the top with a set of expectations and priorities. Expediting (in balance) has ...

More on requirements: a few simple rules

Jack Ganssle

What makes great requirements? A few simple rules serve as guidance

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Requirements should also be consistent with each other, and standalone. I believe that specifying ...

Engineer investigates a noisy, high gain amplifier

JAMES HAHN

Tension rises when all the usual steps to minimize noise fail to fix the problem with an amplifier for a seismic application

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I can add two little additional tales, one.. why does my amplfier oscillate at random, answer when ...

Engineers chase hard disk errors of the most elusive kind

Franco Mau

"NO TROUBLE FOUND" errors spell trouble for design engineers

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I loved doing asynchronous designs through the 80's. We programmed 22v10's to do lots of neat ...

Power Management: Designing from a System-level Perspective

Peter Henry, Vice President, Power Management Group, Analog Devices, Inc.

It's no longer enough to look at power subsystem design separate from system-wide implications

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It is no doubt switching regulator is more important in today's electronics. I'm sure ADI is seeing ...

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KB3001  09.08.2010
Update: Patent office head describes three-track system
Diffcult one. I guess the principle of giving inventors different options is a good development. On ...
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How Hurd's misstep became a big fat mess
The HP board made this whole affair look like amateur hour. When you get part of a story, then the ...
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Apple to take bite out of Moto
I agree with Kiran_NSN, Motorola will certainly try to counter this move by competing on cost (great ...
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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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Control a dual-robot system for upper limb exercise therapy

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