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RFID Security - Part 2: RFID data communications

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Book Excerpt Oscillators - The Darker Side, (Part 3 of 5)

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RFID Security - Part 1: RFID radio basics & architecture

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

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Fob functionality goes beyond the car

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10 things to consider when securing an embedded 802.11 Wi-Fi device

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Extreme Design: Realizing a single-chip CMOS 56 Gs/s ADC for 100 Gbps Ethernet

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Book Excerpt Oscillators - The Darker Side, (Part 2 of 5)

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Book Excerpt Oscillators - The Darker Side, (Part 1 of 5)

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ZigBee applications - Part 6: Profiles

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Technical Papers

Coexistence Digital TV and LTE

Coupled inductors broaden DC/DC converter usage

Computing power going "Platinum"

Why Simulation Matters: A Case for Riviera-PRO

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

Courses and Webinars

How to Verify the Data in Your LTE Downlink Signal

Conquering the Memory Bandwidth Bottleneck On-Chip

Theories, Techniques, and Validation of Over-The-Air (OTA) Test Methods for Evaluating the Performance of MIMO Handsets

Debugging High Speed Memory and Serial buses with Greater System Visibility

SSL Drivers Reliability – Dispelling the Myth on Poor Driver Reliability

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

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

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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Bicycle Bill is certainly correct in that digital is indeed just a limited subset of analog. And, of ...

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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I feel the idea is a little exaggerated in its application and usefulness. If the driver of a ...

Simplifying control in the RF front end

Janine Love

Yesterday, the MIPI Alliance announced its new interface specification for RF front-end (RFFE) control. I contacted the MIPI Alliance, and Jori Arrakoski, Senior Architect at Nokia was kind enough to answer my questions.

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iniewski, I think what i understand from the article is: as more and more RF front end is used, ...

Flickering bulbs clue to signal integrity problem

Charles Picek, PE

An engineer investigating a flaky control system exploits all the available resources

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If shielded wires solved the problem, then it was not a magnetic field coupling issue but an ...

Why is NASA audio so bad?

Rich Pell

Posters at an audio forum offer up a variety of reasons (some serious and some not-so serious) for the low audio quality of NASA space mission communications.

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I think what's being overlooked here is that the channel is for voice communications in noisy ...

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

Bill Schweber

Does the proposal to force handsets to include FM radios make any sense, or is it a futile stab at "back to the future"?

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My Samsung E250 also shows FM radio in the menu only with the corded handset is connected. I guess, ...

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Fundamentals of Signal Integrity
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Former NXP fab workers to get EU support
Its good that EU is taking care of the fab workers. When the cip business goes down its the fab ...
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Rumor mill: Apple to buy Cirrus
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