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HiRel for Space
James F. Salzman
We interrupt this program to bring you breaking headline news. “A major VSAT satellite failure occurred early this morning halting credit card transactions at all major gas stations. This has forced gas stations to revert to cash transactions only. Long lines of autos waiting for gasoline can be seen ...
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Accelerating DSP Designs with the Total 28-nm DSP Portfolio
Suhel Dhanani
Implementing digital signal processing (DSP) datapaths with different performance, precision, intellectual property (IP), and development flows is challenging and laborintensive. As more and more high-performance DSP datapaths are implemented on FPGAs, Altera has developed a complete DSP solutions ...
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Ambient light sensor applications in portable electronics
Raimund Wagner
In portable electronic products, reducing power consumption to provide increased battery life is one of today’s critical design considerations. The liquid crystal display (LCD) and its back¬lighting are among the most power hungry loads. In consequence, the use of ambient light sensors (ALS) to optimize ...
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Engineer’s Guide for Building applications with the PCBMotor
PCB Motor
This white paper highlights a new technology set to revolutionize applications that require electronic motion. With
Piezo motors mounted directly on PCB which are driving new design & reducing cost, you can design your own original application and earn royalties for the life of the product.
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What is LabVIEW
Natinal Instruments
NI LabVIEW software is used for a wide variety of applications and industries, which can make it challenging to answer the question: "What is LabVIEW?" NI has heard many conflicting opinions and debates over the years. This paper discusses what LabVIEW really is.
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TI's Medical Application Guide
TI
With its full range of analog and embedded processing products, from building blocks to complete semiconductor
solutions, plus systems insight, global support infrastructure, advanced process technology and medical industry involvement, TI is helping make innovative medical electronics more flexible, ...
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Preparing for Google TV
MIPS Technologies
Google and partners recently announced Google TV—an open, architecture-neutral platform that will bring the full web experience to television viewing. It is likely there will be a large number of future Google TV systems based on the MIPS architecture. Leveraging their work with Android and ongoing ...
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Boundary Scan - what can it do for you?
Stefan Meissner
TAG/ Boundary Scan is the most ingenious test technology. It is the jump from physical access to a board’s conductor tracks (necessary for the In-Circuit Test) with all its physical limitations to an electric and, therewith, unlimited access. JTAG/Boundary Scan only requires four control lines and only ...
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USB explained:an introduction to USB and its future
Stephen Olsen and Colin Walls
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) was introduced to the world of PC computing to solve the growing problem of how
to connect peripherals to a PC. The world of desktop computers needed a way, not only to physically connect
devices, but also allow them to be identified and categorized to enable a simple ease ...
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Ethernet Quality of Service: New IEEE Specifications Driving a New Generation of Network Products
Synopsis
The work being done by the 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB) work groups not only applies to Ethernet but to all 802-compliant networks, and will give consumers a range of options to support streaming audio and video in their home and automotive networks.
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