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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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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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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
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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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LLCR Pin Socket Testing with Keithley Model 3732 High Density Matrix Card
Keithley Instruments
This application note by Keithley Instruments describes Low Level Contact Resistance (LLCR) testing in which the resistance of a set of contacts is measured using low level signals. The test is performed by sourcing current in the 1nA to 100mA range across the contacts being evaluated and measuring the ...
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Optimizing Memory Bandwidth in Complex SoCs
Drew Wingard
In this paper, Sonics investigates and discusses the trade-off between multi-threaded non-blocking (MTNB) flow-control and single threaded tag (STT) based flow-control in the realm of Open Core Protocol (OCP) specifications.
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Critical Techniques for High Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems, 6th Edition
Rodger H. Hosking
Now in its 6th Edition, this handbook focuses primarily on A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz. Sampling techniques are reviewed, as well as FPGA technology and high-speed serial fabrics. The latest Pentek board- and system-level high-speed A/D products and some applications based ...
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Component Supplier Management: A Global Foundation Approach
André Rousselot
High-Tech companies understand that implementing a Component Supplier Management (CSM) solution has proven benefits for increasing research and development (R&D) efficiencies, ensuring New Product Introduction (NPI) success, improving time to market, and positively contributing to the bottom-line ...
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Features and Applications of Switches
Ali Zeeshan and Michael Lyons
Switching is the most fundamental function in electronics and plays a vital role in every system. Analog and digital bus switches are used in many industrial instruments and consumer devices to implement test interfaces, multiple peripheral and host selection functions, power and clock management, ...
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