Employing Blackfin processors for USB 2.0 designs
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2010-02-01 |
| The competitive nature of the consumer electronics market demands constant innovation. Blackfin processors are helping embedded designers to meet these design needs. |
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| Polaroid back to business with LCD frame
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2008-10-15 |
| Despite corporate gymnastics in ownership and brand rights, the public presence of Polaroid seems to remain quasi-focused on imaging, with DVD players and flat-panel TVs joining up with the company's branded digital cameras and digital picture frames. |
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Estimating Power IC contributions to your embedded design power budget
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2007-11-22 |
| Here is a brief tutorial on gaining a better understanding of your embedded design's thermal constraints, especially as it relates to the diodes, MOSFETs and IGBTs in the power conversion circuitry. |
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| Switch fabrics pave way to scalable networking
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2000-12-01 |
| In this age of net-centric communication, makers of networking and datacom equipment are hungry for ways to boost bandwidth |
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Expanding NFC's scope of applications
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2011-07-25 |
| As more consumers begin to have pleasant experiences using this technology, the scope of NFC applications would expand rapidly in coming years. |
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| Analog, mixed-signal design flow found wanting
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2001-06-16 |
| Different views cloud the current analog/mixed-signal design flow issue and should stop concentrating on the problem but find a lasting solution for the industry to further prosper. |
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| SoCs likely to pose heading-off test problems
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2000-12-01 |
| This technology news article describes the problems and solutions test engineers should face when confronting SoC designs. |
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Evaluating schematic capture solutions
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2008-03-19 |
| Vikas Kohli, senior architect at Cadence, reviews challenges faced by PCB design engineers and examines the requirements placed on EDA tools. |
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Enable a robust system design using a linear charger
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2006-08-10 |
| This article discusses the system level impact of three certain parameters when using a wide range of AC adaptors. |
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| Integrating personal technologies in automobiles
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2004-10-18 |
| Integrating personal technologies in automobiles |
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How to control input ripple and noise in buck converters
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2007-02-04 |
| This article describes the sources of input noise and ripple, with some basic filtering methods to attenuate its occurrence and maximize performance. |
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Looking at embedded trends: Integrated MCUs (Part 2)
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2010-01-11 |
| This article discusses integrated MCUs, one of the three significant trends emerging in one of the most critical and competitive sockets in modern electronic systems. |
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Microdrive meets mobile data needs
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2004-03-16 |
| Microdrive meets mobile data needs |
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Ease cross-domain signal protection for mixed-signal SoCs
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2009-12-11 |
| The complexity of SoCs is increasing, but designers can verify the existence of the protection schemes automatically by using a programmable and customizable solution. |
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Power management provides design simplicity for handhelds
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2004-07-01 |
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Bringing the MOST in interface controllers
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2008-08-11 |
| MOST is a networking standard enabling seamless transport of digital audio, video and packet-based data within the car. |
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| Moving active components inside the board
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2006-07-03 |
| Shrinking PCB real estate has spurred research into embedding electronic components within the board. Tom Adams describes the work of a consortium led by the Fraunhofer Institute. |
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Reference designs ensure standards compliance
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2008-11-18 |
| Reference designs that support various digital standards help reduce development time and time-to-market. |
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Enhancing power circuit design
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2002-09-01 |
| Enhancing power circuit design |
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Tip of the Week: Glitch-free portable charging
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2008-01-06 |
| Superior to discrete solutions, today's IC-based controller/managers for charging portable devices from the USB port, the car and other away-from-home sources provide better surge protection and higher efficiency in a smaller package. |
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Applying a motor-controller IC for buck-boost conversion
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2007-09-28 |
| This non-inverting buck-boost converter design will provide higher efficiency than traditional SEPIC or flyback topologies traditionally used for the task. |
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In the eye of the DFM/DFY storm
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2007-05-25 |
| Many people seem to have the impression that the transition to the 65 nm technology node is proving to be "not as bad as expected." |
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| Designing NAND flash memory sub-systems
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2008-11-24 |
| Several factors make the design of NAND flash memory sub-systems more challenging than ever. |
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Choose the ideal ADC for your medical application
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2008-09-29 |
| With faster and lower power ADCs, medical devices will improve in accuracy, speed and ease-of-use. |
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Choosing the right architecture for embedded graphics apps
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2011-06-07 |
| Learn about how to select the right graphic display controller to meet various application segments. |
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How to deal with high-speed board layout challenges
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2009-11-26 |
| The challenge in SDI board layout is in devising a layout strategy to minimise impedance mismatches from the many external components on the 75Ω port. Use of 75Ωmicrostrips with trace widths comparable to the landing pads of the passive components will minimise impedance discontinuities. |
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Increase system up-time with redundant N+PoL converters
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2007-06-25 |
| Until now, PoLs have been unable to provide redundant power with input to output isolation. This article explains how to keep high availability and redundancy in PoL applications. |
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FPGAs clear the serial backplane design hurdle
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2007-09-16 |
| Even as serial backplane technology goes mainstream, its evolution brings many challenges including protocols and legacy IP. This article proposes that FPGAs offer a viable solution to overcoming the interface design challenges. |
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Demystifying ESL for embedded systems designs
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2007-03-01 |
| While the definitions of ESL may vary, the end result should be the same, namely letting system developers analyse their designs at a higher level of abstraction. |
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Implement high port density 10GbE networks
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2009-01-27 |
| Read about several architectures for implementing high-port-count switches using 10GbE technology. |
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