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Two-Port MIMO, Ceiling-Mount Antenna Targets 5G Apps
Laird Connectivity's CMD69423P operates between 698 to 960 MHz and 1300 to 4200 MHz with multi-port functionality. Laird Connectivity has recently announced the CMD69423P, an indoor MIMO ceiling-mount...
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Mass-Scale mmWave in 5G: What’s the Hold Up?
Millimeter-wave technology can be one of the great enablers of the 5G landscape. However, multiple hurdles must be jumped before it becomes viable for broad deployment. While major carriers such as...
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Tempest in a Cuisinart Tea Kettle
The tea kettle has a great design and solid assembly, yet it still caught fire. Paul Rako tore it down to find out what the heck went wrong. I happened to be walking in my kitchen when my Cuisinart...
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Silicon Nanobot Swarms May Be Coming Sooner Than You Think
Wirelessly powered and controlled using silicon photovoltaics, a research team employed a voltage-controllable electrochemical actuator to create their “walking” nanorobots. Swarms of nanorobots...
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Rugged DC-DC Converters Target Industrial And Test Equipment Sectors
Flex Power Modules' PKE series delivers up to 30 W of output power at up to 92% efficiency. Flex Power Modules has introduced several new additions to the PKE series of dc-dc power converter modules...
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Getting smart about tuning your stepper motor
Smart tuning features like dynamic decay and ripple control can help you save time and reduce temperature and noise in your stepper motor applications.
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Benefits of smart tune technology for stepper motor drivers
Learn more about the benefits of smart tuning in this video.
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Easily regulate current in stepper motors with smart tuning
This paper introduces smart tune, a plug-and-play decay scheme implemented in Texas Instruments stepper motor drivers. Finding a decay scheme that works for a stepper motor system is time-consuming...
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Provide the best possible decay solution in stepper motor operation
This white paper introduces an intelligent decay scheme that continuously adapts to provide the best possible decay solution according to demands. Stepper motor: A brief overview Stepper motors are...
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Sizing Up Semiconductors for 5G Small Cells
Armed with several semiconductor technologies, NXP is readying for the requirements of 5G infrastructure systems with discrete devices and compact modules. Download this article in PDF format.Wireless...
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Highly Configurable RF Platform Supports Increased Capacity, Functional Modes
This mixed-signal IC RF data-converter platform combines high-performance analog and digital signal processing for 4G LTE and E-band 5G mmWave radios. The apparently insatiable appetite for additional...
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Measure—and Reduce—Output-Voltage Ripple for DC-DC Regulators
Today’s server and telecom systems require maximum reduction of output ripple and high-frequency noise at the end of voltage regulators. This article details how to obtain accurate output-voltage...
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Many modern servers, as well as telecom and networking equipment, are populated with multiple voltage regulators on the system board to provide power to ICs or subcircuits. These power rails often have...
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Knowles Chip Adds Voice-Activated Alexa to Wireless Headphones
Knowles, the largest player in the $1 billion global market for MEMS microphones, sells chips used in smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and smart speakers including Amazon's Echo. But as people grow...
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A Hands-on Look at Digilent’s Analog Discovery Studio
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes you on a quick tour of Digilent’s Analog Discovery Studio—a lower-cost educational tool. I’ve had the pleasure of using National Instruments' (NI)ELVIS III for a...
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Tiny Module is Sophisticated, Precise “Personal” Earthquake Detector
Combining an accelerator with a dedicated processing engine in a tiny module, the BP3901 earthquake detector embeds sophisticated algorithms that can distinguish between “routine” vibration from those...
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What’s All This Stuff Stuff, Anyhow?
Analog guru Bob Pease left behind a lot of stuff when he passed, and now it’s housed at Texas Instruments. The big question remains “what to do with it all?” While I visited the Texas Instruments...
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Power Semiconductors: Past, Present, and Future
Advances in manufacturing processes as well as material and packaging technologies, plus the emergence of new application areas, are creating a resurgence of sorts for wide-bandgap devices. According...
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Power Semiconductors: Past, Present, and Future (.PDF Download)
According to an industry research from Yole Développement, electronics manufacturing is growing at a steady rate above U.S. GDP in part due to power electronics (Fig. 1). Power devices have found their...
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Audio-Scrambler IC Easily Enhances Voice-Call Link Security
This full-duplex scrambler/descrambler IC provides basic, first-level security for voice-audio channels via a simple frequency-inversion scheme, and accommodates in-band signaling tones. While...
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