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Microsoft keynoter to DesignCon attendees: 'Believe!'

Design industrial systems on a chip that meet stringent global safety standards

ADC Guide, Part 2: the sampling rate

FireWire at 4Gbps—Impact on industrial apps

Bluetooth low energy and proprietary RF for HID applications—A comparison

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Technical Papers

EtherCAT on Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors

IGBT Modules: Data Sheet Comparisons and the Pitfalls--How to Ensure Comparison Reliability

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Courses and Webinars

Frequency Synthesis, Part 1: Phased Locked Loops

Keep Connected Cars Up to Date with FOTA (Firmware Over-the-Air) Technology

Intelligent Systems: Defined by Connectivity, Cloud, and Data

Powering Intelligent Systems with the Next Generation Intel® AtomTM Processors

Fundamentals of Low-Power Microcontroller Design

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Teardowns

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Inside a CFL bulb – Less power & longer life using NXP technology

Yukyung marshals army of chip vendors for Viliv tablet

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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

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

FPGA-based dual motor control kit from Microsemi and TRINAMIC

Digital Blocks expands its video signal and image processing IP core family

QuickLogic introduces Background Color Compensator (BCC) technology for Pico Projectors

Ruggedized SSD offers 200 GB of capacity

Quad 40-V precision amplifiers feature low noise and consumption

Vishay ChipLEDs are super thin and ultra bright

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Commentary

The passion

Brian Fuller

Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?

post comment 3 comments last comment EREBUS
Every generation has its own set of doer's. What changes is the medium in which they innovate. ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

post comment 69 comments last comment sharps_eng
My standard analog test is a zener shunt regulator. A few can correctly solve for the ballast ...

Quirky chips

Jack Ganssle

Jack has fun describing some of his favorite quirky chips from the past; some of these are still around.

post comment 14 comments last comment Kentj
I have P4040s, D4040s, 1802s etc if anybody wants to play with them. Sorry, no P4004s.

Targeting RF key security

Rick DeMeis

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

post comment 2 comments last comment joewilder
Can't you unlock a steering wheel lock with a bump key?

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