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Don’t Bypass the Right Capacitors for Your Design
Bypass capacitors are the focus of this technical paper, which presents actual measurement results of different capacitor bypass networks.Any engineer knows that capacitors are a fundamental building...
View ArticleHigh-Density Applications Demand Precision Analog Devices in Tiny Packages...
Traditionally, the packaged integrated circuit (IC) has been much larger than the IC itself because standard packages must also contain the lead-frame and bond wires. That wasn’t an issue for decades...
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High-Density Applications Demand Precision Analog Devices in Tiny Packages
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Space constraints in optical networking, data acquisition, and other applications are driving the need for high-density precision analog components in extremely small...
View ArticleLiving without Halogens and Phthalates: The Why’s and How’s (.PDF Download)
Electronics companies have experienced some chemical reactions in the past two decades. Many will recall the European RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), which came into force in...
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Living without Halogens and Phthalates: The Why’s and How’s
More restrictive regulations like those from EU’s REACH are pushing companies to produce products free from these substances. What are the implications?Download this article in PDF format.Electronics...
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Qualcomm's Latest Modem Connects the Internet of Things
Qualcomm, the largest supplier of modem chips used in smartphones, introduced the X50 modem to give them the ability to communicate over 5G networks, which are expected to be 10 to 100 times faster...
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PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation (.PDF...
Sponsored by IDT: The latest Gen4 clock generator and buffers meet performance and jitter requirements for Gen5 PCI Express systems.Bracing for the coming 5th generation (Gen5) of PCI Express (PCIe),...
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PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation
Sponsored by IDT: The latest Gen4 clock generator and buffers meet performance and jitter requirements for Gen5 PCI Express systems.Download this article in PDF format.Bracing for the coming 5th...
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How to Specify an RF Amplifier (.PDF Download)
Sponsored by IDT: What should you look for in a good RF gain block for wireless design? Here are some recommendations.What every RF design engineer needs these days is a good all-purpose IC RF...
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How to Specify an RF Amplifier
Sponsored by IDT: What should you look for in a good RF gain block for wireless design? Here are some recommendations.Download this article in PDF format.What every RF design engineer needs these days...
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Innovative Cooling Shrinks Size of 100A µModule Buck Regulator
A buck regulator module housed in a 15- × 22- × 7.87-mm BGA package can power two 50A loads or one 100A load, and current is sharable to 800A with eight in parallel.Design and manufacture of a...
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Optical Switches on Silicon IC Yields Tiny Integrated Spectrometer
A fully integrated spectrometer designed using silicon-process technology incorporates switchable electro-optical elements that create a data matrix resolved by a digital Fourier transform.The goal of...
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Harvest Energy from RF Sources
Growing reliance on electronic devices in industrial and commercial applications is fueling the use of RF energy harvesting as a source of power. Download this article in PDF format.Electronic devices...
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What’s All This Industrial Design Stuff, Anyhow?
Industrial design goes far beyond the outside shape of a product—it dictates the cost and assembly methods as well.Bob Pease took exception to poor user interfaces. I, too, have railed against poor...
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Single 48V to 1V, 200A Converter Powers Microprocessors (Part 2)
A 48V to 1, 200A Hybrid Switching topology supplies present and future microprocessor power requirements along with the ability to handle fast load transients in a single module.Download this article...
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A 5G Forecast for 2019
Will 2019 be the year we see extensive 5G deployments? An industry specialist gives his take on what we can expect to see this year.With the new year now upon us, one topic at the center of attention...
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Energy Harvesting Chip Startup Funded by Amazon Web Services
Wiliot, which is building Bluetooth chips that can be powered by ambient radio frequencies, has raised $30 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Venture Investment, Avery Dennison and...
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The Chronicles of GND (Part 4): Supply Currents—When Simulations are Both...
Could it be that your simulator is giving you the correct answer to the wrong question? And what do time constants have to do with it? The Filter Wizard weighs in on reactions to Part 3.I was going to...
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Silicon-Based Electro-Optical Gyroscope Overcomes SNR Deficiencies
This 2-mm-square silicon-based optical gyroscope devised at Caltech overcomes the major source of error in these tiny units thanks to the use of a self-cancellation technique.Those tiny...
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Impulse-Controlled Sequential Switch Without Active Electronics
This circuit uses two electromechanical relays to realize a sequential switch that’s permanently resistant to electrical disturbance, remembering its state despite power failure and consuming energy...
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