SmartEnergy Design Features

What really limits MOSFET performance: silicon, package, driver or circuit board? (Part 1 of 2)

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Optimizing real-time performance and efficiency through intelligent motor control

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System level software centric power debugging using virtual prototypes

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Design of multi-functional wireless presenters made easy

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Case study: Solar reader provides proof for self-sufficient devices

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Achieving low power in the data center with 10GBASE-T

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Achieving Efficiency in Blood Glucose Meter Design

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LED lighting control using powerline communication

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Perform functional testing of battery management systems for hybrid electric vehicles

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Technical Papers

Mixed Signal Power Management: Bridging the Analog-Digital Divide with Mixed Signal FPGA Graphical Design Configuration Methodology

Current Sensing Circuit Concepts and Fundamentals

Digital Power Helps Get Products to Market More Quickly

A Wind River Market Survey of Device Software Testing Trends and Quality Concerns in the Embedded Industry

BLDC motor for Electronic Bike Application

LLCR Pin Socket Testing with the Model 3732 High Density Matrix Card

Operational amplifier gain stability, Part 2: DC gain-error analysis

Precautions for connecting APA outputs to other devices

Reducing Switching Power with Intelligent Clock Gating

Advantages of the PXI Platform and NI Software for Sensor Measurement and Signal Conditioning Systems

Courses and Webinars

The Next Generation of Ethernet: How the New IEEE Standards Enable Energy Efficiency and Quality-of-Service

Solar Photovoltaic Testing for R&D, DV, and Manufacturing

Low Power Solutions for Your Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Designs

Latest MIPI Standards: PHY and Protocol Testing Guidance

RF Detectors Demystified

PCI Express Detecting and Debugging the Most Common Implementation Problems

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

A first look inside the Palm Pre

What you need to know about Microsoft's BlueTrack mouse

Sperry vertical gyro for Boeing 747

Evolution of handheld gaming, Part 1

Netbooks, smart phones: Will the twain meet?

Esolo "MP4": Apple Nano clone adds some extras

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

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Commentary

Sometimes you miss the obvious when you think too much

Bill Schweber

My solar-powered light had me fooled. . . or was it that I fooled myself?

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I find that liberal use of Occam's Razor is the best medicine for any debugging ...

The scope of energy savings in LCD TVs

Gyan Tiwary, iWatt, Inc.

New trends on LCD backlighting will change the power-consumption tradeoffs

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Its really amazing how much of power we consume while watching TV or computer. Displays have become ...

China passes U.S. in energy use, but hold on a second...

Patrick Mannion

China passed the U.S. in energy used, but what's not noted is that it's also passed the world in net renewable energy generated.

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A couple of points: One, the statistics not only reflect how the 1.3 B Chinese have grown but also ...

Is wireless recharging's day finally here?

Bill Schweber

We have wireless communication everywhere, and will one form of wireless power transmission soon also become common?

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I'm don't know of any credible evidence that cell phone radiation causes any harm. If you know of ...

Atheros's Wi-Fi/powerline combo is truly 'smart energy'

Patrick Mannion

While challenging, Atheros is in a great position to follow through on its plan to combine powerline networking with Wi-Fi—and it is an excellent example of what Smart Energy is all about.

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Powerline communications within a given premises is not all that bad in performance. The advantage ...

Energy status quo is no longer an option

Nicolas Mokhoff

The energy problem is serious enough to warrant the all-hands-on-deck response; wind, geothermal, solar, bio-thermal and even nuclear technologies all figure into the solution.

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Government-sponsored Solar Energy incentives are a great way to stimulate investment in this ...

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DrQuine  07.31.2010
Apple iPhone 4: Can't engineers just say no?
It seems to me that the most likely explanation is being missed. IF you hold an iPhone 4 in your ...
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Disk drives fail in a particularly annoying way
Great stories. "Random failures" can be especially difficult to find - until you know the answer. I ...
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Employers getting more picky hiring engineers
The hiring process, even with the best intentions, has become distorted, misused, and comical if it ...
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