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

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A Current Sensing Tutorial--Part 1: Fundamentals

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Ultracapacitors: Best Option for EV Energy Storage Technology

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PowerSoC solves switch-mode DCDC noise and space issues

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Calibrating amplifiers and ADCs in SoCs

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Extreme Design: When radar failure at 12,000 feet is not an option

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Prediction and negative-delay filters: Five things you should know

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Battery fuel gauge: factual or fallacy?

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Step-by-step for an optimized flyback supply design (Pt 2 of 2)

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Select Schottky diodes based on avalanche performance

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Technical Papers

Tiny 2-Cell Solar Panel Charges Batteries in Compact, Off-Grid Devices

IRPLLED7 90-250VAC Offline LED Driver using LEDrivIR

Power Factor Correction Using IR1155 CCM PFC IC

High Efficiency Space Grade DC-DC Converter is a Prime Solution for Modern Day Digital Loads

Precision Output Current Limiting Using Average Current Monitor Feature

Courses and Webinars

Meeting Aggressive Power Budgets with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

Getting the Most Energy out of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Meeting Aggressive Power Budgets with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

Meeting Aggressive Power Budgets with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

Fundamentals of Choosing and Using A/D and D/A Converters

Teardowns

Electric motorbike teardown

Video: Tear down that Prius!

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

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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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Products

Compact gate drive IC simplifies hybrid, EV power train design

IR PWM controllers deliver smallest footprint

Micrel aims to eliminate dropped mobile calls

TI samples next-generation digital power controller for isolated power supplies

LLC resonant controller cuts energy loss, BOM and size

LED driver controller handles demanding lighting applications

Tiny resistor packs power with low resistance

Cree provides SPICE models for SiC power devices

Hi-Speed USB protectors let drivers safely recharge their USB devices

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

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

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Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Apache wins award for power

Brian Bailey

Power is a big issue these days, and not only did Apache win an award for it, they also contributed to a great Webinar that you must watch…

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Calling all people who care about power

Brian Bailey

Reaching out to people is one of the things that editors have to do, but I have to know who to reach out to. Should I include you?

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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This discussion no VCC and also the one on anode and cathode brings up something I've dwelled on in ...

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

Bill Schweber

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?

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P.S. I just couldn't help but paste highly relevant YouTube links. These links demonstrating a point ...

DesignCon 2012 Panel: Test gurus share vision to accelerate your ‘time to answer’

Patrick Mannion

The countdown begins: On Wednesday next at DesignCon 2012 http://www.designcon.com I’ll be moderating a panel comprising four of the sharpest minds in the electronics industry as they explore the cutting edge of technology and what it means for you, the test engineer.

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High-tech conference promises help with design

Janine Love

DesignCon 2012 starts January 30 and ends February 2nd in the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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Webinar: Power Issues for Chip and Board

Brian Bailey

This is going to be a great webinar about power, power integrity and everything associated with power. Sign up now and don’t miss this one!

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The dumbing down of embedded design
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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers
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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 2

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Chevy Volt flap: What's the big deal?

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Hail the bar code, despite its age--and alternatives

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Book excerpt – The art of hardware architecture, part 3

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