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Design a wide-voltage-band buck regulator

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Risk management in batteries for medical (and other) applications

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New DC/DC power technology aims to be the greenest yet

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Modularity provides functional, economical tire-pressure monitoring

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Compliance to Power-over-Ethernet safety standards is critical when moving beyond 60W

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EMC Basics #13: EMC shielding--destroying a shield

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Build and validate safety in medical (and other) device software

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Myth or fact? You can increase the force of your solenoid by removing turns (Part 3 of 3)

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Teardown: The power inverter - from sunlight to power grid

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A DIY microcontroller-based functional tester

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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

MCUs for single-phase metering and energy monitoring

TI's MSP430 MCUs target next-gen single-phase metering and energy monitoring apps

Smart energy platform raises security benchmark

Multi-output regulators take up less space on the board

2.5 V voltage reference IC reduces drift to a guaranteed 7ppm/°C maximum

Power metal strip resistor boasts high 3W rating

Auto focus auxiliary flash LED housed in tiny package

Sensor chip supports wide temp range

Single/multiphase energy-measurement IC eases smart-grid transition for utility meters

Ultracapacitor boasts 3,000F, low ESR in rugged design

Commentary

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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@ "...have you unsoldered a 16pin IC without a fairly specialized setup recently?" A hot air gun is ...

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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Auto show musings

Rick DeMeis

You may have missed these under reported developments coming from the recent auto shows.

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On the Buick it is done using the base model audio equipment.

New Microcontroller Central website – changing the world bit-by-bit

Clive Maxfield

New NXP online community lets professional and hobbyists alike share design success stories and technical insights while providing technology news, product information, learning, and training.

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@ams0178 - I'll be one of the regular bloggers on the site. I don't have any direct connection with ...

Have you seen any erlangs lately?

Bill Schweber

Even a vital parameter can lose its stature due to technology change

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What about "modula2" and "Pascal"? And does anyone remember VESA local bus (VLB)? - Amazing that ...

RF, meet Analog; and his friend Digital.

Doug Grant

Techniques like digital predistortion and envelope-tracking draw from all three domains…digital, analog and RF, and allow fundamentally non-linear (but power-efficient) amplifiers to behave like linear amplifiers.

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Soon they will discover their far cousine - Optics.

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Bluespec continues to attract venture money
An interesting thought but the largest number that I've seen in crowdsourcing stories (on ...
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Software defined radio: Don't talk to me about ENOBS (Part 1 of 2)
Hi, Where can I find the second part of the article?
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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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