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User Interface—The next battlefield--Part 1

A Current Sensing Tutorial--Part 1: Fundamentals

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

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SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #62: Design your own simple I2C industrial interface isolator

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Technical Papers

Advanced EDS Design Tools Pave the Way for a Transition to Electric Vehicles

How to Keep Your Competitive Edge In Manufacturing's High Growth Automotive Electronics

Analyzing the Device Parasitics Sensitivity and Accuracy of Calibre xACT 3D Field Solver Extraction

ADC multiple device synchronization

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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

Programmable Hardware Accelerators Made Easy: Implementing Custom Processors without Compromising Performance, Power or Area

On-chip Digital ADCs, DACs and Related Stellamar IP for Microsemi SoC Devices

Accelerating Productivity with Xilinx 7 Series Targeted Design Platforms

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

Compact gate drive IC simplifies hybrid, EV power train design

Micrel aims to eliminate dropped mobile calls

Microsemi boasts new package for radiation-tolerant "Space Flight" FPGAs

LED driver controller handles demanding lighting applications

Tiny resistor packs power with low resistance

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Commentary

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

post comment 30 comments last comment LiketoBike
Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Could Costa Rica make a dent in India’s high-tech business?

Carolyn Mathas

During a recent trip I was amazed at how a country that is so small is growing rapidly as a serious technology center--possibly supplanting others in the process.

post comment 1 comment last comment BillsBlots
I visited Costa Rica right out of college several decades ago and it was at that time head and ...

Quick – Vote now!

Clive Maxfield

It’s time to stand up and be counted – are we going to let some yahoo from “e-Book Reader” or “Netbook News” beat one of our very own at EE Times? No we are not!

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I saw that you could vote more than once, you can do so daily, and I headed back to see if ...

Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers

Dylan McGrath

Merging the SoC businesses of Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic would create a large company, but the exact size in sales is difficult to pinpoint.

post comment 19 comments last comment WW Thinker
ST-E is not looking good at the moment especially considering the mega-merge happened even earlier ...

A SPIFI New Idea

Jack Ganssle

Execute from serial flash? Yes we can.

post comment 8 comments last comment cdhmanning
Quad speed is far too slow for most direct execution. On a 100MHz CPU executing thumb, the SPI would ...

Interesting Idea: Stochastic Behavioral Modeling of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits

Brian Bailey

Process variation has become an increasingly challenging issue for both integrate circuit design and manufacturing, which results from the uncertainties from chemical mechanical polishing...

post comment 1 comment last comment Bear1959
This is interesting work. You might want to check out: "Monte Carlo Simulation of Semiconductors", ...

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