Designing to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy (.PDF Download)
Temperature is probably the most common physical measurement made during medical diagnosis or evaluation. Body temperature is an accurate predictor of many types of conditions and illnesses. The...
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Designing to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: It’s hard to find a good, accurate temperature sensor, particularly when it comes to patient monitoring. However, a collaborative effort has broken through with a new...
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Single 48V to 1V, 200A Converter Powers Microprocessors (Part 3)
A 48V to 1V, 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...
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Qualcomm Introduces its First Multimode 5G Modem
Qualcomm, the largest supplier of smartphone chips, introduced its second-generation modem for tapping into 5G networks, which are projected to have speeds 10 to 100 times faster than current LTE...
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Nanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range Filter,...
By fabricating a nano-MEMS honeycomb lattice, researchers developed a solid-state device that can function as a voltage-tunable filter or unidirectional energy coupler for electrical energy in the 10-...
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Integrated Digital Support Enables Robust Power-Supply Design Flexibility
Single-chip power-supply controller IC combines analog circuits with an embedded MCU that employs 35 instructions and controls registers to store performance data. The analog and digital worlds have...
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What’s All This Subthreshold Stuff, Anyhow?
Operating transistors and ICs in the “leakage” zone lowers power consumption by an order of magnitude. Download this article in PDF format.Back in 1999, Bob Pease touched on the operation of CMOS...
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Trio of Tiny Gate Drivers Support Up to 200-V Half-Bridge Topologies
These 100-V MOSFET/IGBT gate drivers with differing current source/sink ratings use junction isolation and level shifting to support 200-V bootstrapped half-bridge configurations. There seems to be no...
View ArticleWhat’s All This Subthreshold Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
Back in 1999, Bob Pease touched on the operation of CMOS transistors in subthreshold mode. In his article, he pointed out that analog designers can use CMOS ICs such as the CD4007, a dual matched pair...
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Smartphone Amp Delivers Enriched Sound, Power Savings in Tiny Package
By merging DSP-driven algorithms, Class H dc-rail boost, Class D audio amplifier, smart battery management, and other features, this amp provides high-performance, highly efficient audio for...
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Smart Electronic Design with Low IQ
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As the Internet of Things matures, quiescent current becomes an ever-more important specification when making design decisions. Here’s what you need to know. Download...
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As it turns out, low IQ is a good thing. A least when you’re designing electronic equipment for low power consumption. A device’s quiescent current, or IQ, is an important parameter to understand for...
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MEMS May Lead to Chip-Based “Personal” Electron Accelerator
A collaborative team is attempting to combine electro-optical physics and a silicon MEMS structure to create a chip-size electron accelerator, in contrast to the mile-long versions in use today....
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Via-In-Pad Guidelines for PCBs
Though generally frowned upon, here’s a quick rundown on why “via in pad” may be an option to consider in certain designs, and how to place them properly. Via in pad seems to be one of the hot topics...
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Complementary Up/Downconverter ICs Hit 44 GHz for 5G (and More)
These highly integrated RF up and downconverters minimize board space and BOM, and can be used for IF or direct-to-baseband architectures. Whether your multi-gigahertz RF architecture is using an IF...
View ArticleTexas Instruments Introduces New Type of Linear Regulator
Texas Instruments said that its latest linear regulator eliminates the need for a number of discrete components, resulting in around 75 percent higher efficiency and 100 percent more power density...
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What to Watch for at APEC 2019
The Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2019 will take place in Anaheim, California March 19-21. Thousands of educators and professionals will travel to the Anaheim Convention...
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Passive Component Technologies Shine at APEC 2019
The Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) is now considered the leading conference for power electronics. Through technical sessions, plenary talks, and a large exhibit floor, a wide range of...
View ArticleInfineon Introduces Latest Generation of Power MOSFETs
Infineon Technologies, the largest player in the power semiconductor space, has introduced its latest generation of power MOSFETs. The company has started selling the first devices based on its OptiMOS...
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Taking in the Technical Presentations at APEC 2019
The roots of the APEC conference go back to 1975, when a private company put on POWERCON, a show dedicated to the working engineer. When that show ended in 1984, it was replaced by a hodgepodge of...
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