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A Better Transformer Equivalent Circuit
Precision transformer circuits play key roles in applications such as TRA bridges. Here’s an equivalent circuit that surpasses most others when looking to meet those accuracy demands. Download this...
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A Better Transformer Equivalent Circuit (.PDF Download)
If you search the internet for “transformer equivalent circuits,” you’ll get five pages of over 100 small circuit diagrams. Figures 1 and 2 show two typical circuits, one that’s “referred to the...
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Who Really Did Invent the Transistor?
The trio credited with the milestone may not be a threesome after all. With that in mind, how accurate are the accounts regarding other famous discoveries in electronics, and their inventors? Okay,...
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11 Myths About Inductive Position Sensors
The inductive position sensor is a rapidly growing technology to measure position. Find out more about some of the most common misconceptions of inductive position sensors, along with how they compare...
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We’ve been waiting for a long time and now it’s being implemented widely—namely, artificial intelligence (AI). From automatic factories, self-driving cars and trucks, to robot chauffeurs, we are now...
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Deliver Precise Temperature Measurement from Your Wearables
An Electronic Design-hosted live webinar on November 8th sponsored by Avnet and Maxim Integrated Date: Friday, November 08, 2019Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Standard TimeSponsor: Avnet and Maxim...
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Electronic Design's Dynamic Multipart Content targets the latest technology, topics, and research.
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Signal Chain Solutions for Your Design
Learn how to simplify and speed system design as well as gain knowledge around solving basic design challenges with a comprehensive collection of free training videos, e-books and pocket reference...
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Ideas for Design: Vol. 1, No. 4 (.PDF Download)
In celebration of one of the most popular sections in Electronic Design's history—Ideas for Design—we're pulling articles from our archives and putting the spotlight on them. Stay tuned as we add more...
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MEMS Relays Push Power Limits
Here’s a MEMS relay with an integrated FET that can handle higher power levels, breaking away from the “low power” moniker associated with MEMS parts. Paul Rako takes a closer look at what makes this...
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Optics, Electronics Combine for Non-Invasive, Accurate Arthritis Assessment
Tests are underway on an optically based, multi-wavelength system that allows for fast, accurate, noninvasive diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. You’ve undoubtedly seen the finger clip-on device that...
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NXP Looks to Enter New Era With Ultra-Wideband Chip
NXP Semiconductors has started selling an ultra-wideband chip that enables smartphones and mobile devices to pinpoint each other's location, ahead of the first product launches in the second half of...
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Texas Instruments Blames Weak Forecast on Trade Friction
"We are at the very end of a long supply chain," Rafael Lizardi, chief financial officer at Texas Instruments, said on a conference call with analysts. "And when the ones at the very front pull back,...
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Can MEMS Technology Make Cobots Safer and Faster?
A MEMS technology like bulk acoustic wave, when integrated into a phase-locked loop with jitter cleaner, helps improve clock and time synchronization between fast-moving components....
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IR Thermometer Reads to 0.001°C with Accuracy, Stability
An infrared-based thermometer developed by NIST uses an innovative design, multiple refinements, and a custom pyroelectric detector to realize precision performance of a few thousandths of a degree...
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Electronic Design Products of the Week (10/28-11/1)
A 3D ultrasound sensor...a direct-to-PC-mountable VCSEL array...a carbon-dioxide sensor with MEMS mic—these are some of the latest sensor-related and analog products making news. Electronic component...
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Examining the Unique World of Electro-optics
Electro-optics is much more than LEDs and phototransistors. Instead, it’s the synergy of electronics, optics, and MEMS technologies that cut across RF and optical boundaries to create unique,...
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Ideas for Design: Vol. 1, No. 5 (.PDF Download)
This batch of Ideas for Design (IFDs) wraps up Volume 1. It includes an inexpensive surge solution and a way to stabilize switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) with slope compensation resistance.We also...
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What’s the Difference Between Hall-Effect Current Sensing and Position Sensing?
Using the Hall effect for current measurement is inherently robust, but it can be an even more versatile tool when it comes to position sensing. Sensing, in all its forms, is fundamental to so many...
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Transform Audio/Visual Receiver into Adjustable 3-Phase Power Supply
The amplifier within a standard A/V receiver can become a fully adjustable, three-phase power supply by adding a general-purpose op amp, a few passive components, and some standard transformers....
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