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Green LED replaces LDO regulator

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

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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 2

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LED improvements extend automotive applications

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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 1

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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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LEDs and lighting design: What you need to know about photons

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PCB layout techniques to maximize power module performance

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

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Technical Papers

Current Sensing Circuit Concepts and Fundamentals

Telecom Hot-Swap Reference Design Is Immune to Overvoltage and Brownout Input Transients

Reducing Switching Power with Intelligent Clock Gating

Getting Back to the Basics of Electrical Measurements

Implementing FIR Filters and FFTs with 28-nm Variable-Precision DSP Architecture

Courses and Webinars

Linaro 10.11 release and beyond

Editorial Webinar: High Performance RF and High Speed Dataconverters for Military Radio

Telepresence of Everyday Terminals

How to Verify the Data in Your LTE Downlink Signal

Conquering the Memory Bandwidth Bottleneck On-Chip

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

UPDATE: B'com, Toshiba win sockets in iPhone 3GS

Comparing the AX508 to the AX502

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Reference Designs

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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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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Commentary

Portable test instrument battery life drops precipitously

Timothy Loose

It worked on the test bench, what now was draining the instrument's NiCad batteries?

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I was not aware that neoprene had that property. I used to use a neoprene pad on the floor as an ...

Book Review: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Clive Maxfield

This little scamp is jam-packed with interesting nuggets of knowledge and tidbits of trivia about the periodic table and the elements it represents – it's way more interesting than I would ever have imagined.

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Hi Jim -- i know what you mean when you say "I'm actually finding the chemistry and physics ...

The non-gas car: bounded by physics on one side; the harshness of the road on the other

Bill Schweber

Dreams are good, but it's important to keep these barriers in mind as well

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... continued... That being said, Shakespeare points out that "in these cases/ We still have ...

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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From Rick's story, the following "The system denies a connection when the vehicle is in motion," ...

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 ...

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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Amen, Peter. See it everyday. As for efficient, low noise switchers,... I eat 'em for breakfast. ...

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