How to improve energy efficiency in AC/DC power supplies
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2010-02-09 |
| Here's a technical paper from Fairchild Semiconductor detailing how you can improve energy efficiency in your power supply design with the FAN9612 interleaved dual boundary conduction mode PFC controller. |
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Graphical tools speed design, prototyping, and deployment
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2006-12-06 |
| Graphical system design is a revolutionary approach that blends graphical programming and commercial off-the-shelf hardware. It uses a single environment from initial design to final deployment for multiple benefits. |
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Determining sampling rates for analog sensors
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2004-04-01 |
| Determining sampling rates for analog sensors |
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Line echo canceller, DC offsets in VoIP
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2009-03-26 |
| Here's a comparison of the different methods for testing VoIP speech quality. |
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| Go beyond LTE requirements, goals
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2008-12-26 |
| LTE presents a number of lofty goals, creating challenges for technology and service providers, and equipment manufacturers. |
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| Implementing embedded cryptography
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2011-09-06 |
| Learn why and how embedded cryptography can protect both systems and their users. |
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| Position location strategies, applications (Part 1)
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2011-11-02 |
| Part 1 of this series discusses the basic evolution of wireless networks and how position location could be considered from the networking point of view. |
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Improve simulation studies with 3D animation
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2011-06-28 |
| Read about the use of 3D animation in simulation-centric workflows to augment early verification activities, such as those used in model-based design. |
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| Implement safety features in industrial system designs
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2012-02-01 |
| Know how prequalified FPGAs save substantial time in achieving product certification as worldwide safety standard requirements become increasingly complex. |
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MCUs improve glucometer accuracy, efficiency
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2010-07-16 |
| The proper MCU that integrates digital and analogue functionality, while balancing cost is recommended to implement small size, low power and high performance glucometers. |
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| Radar fundamentals (Part 4)
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2011-09-13 |
| Read about Space Time Adaptive Processing, a class of algorithms that provides capabilities beyond that of Doppler radar processing, but has extremely high processing requirements. |
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FPGAs assist in deinterlacing function
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2009-10-21 |
| This article explores the different deinterlacing techniques and examines how FPGAs are being used for any complex deinterlacing function. |
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| Employ SPARK for secure code dev't (Part 2)
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2012-01-23 |
| Learn how SPARK can be used to cost-effectively develop high-security systems. |
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Arming an embedded's audio processing with ARM NEON
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2010-03-16 |
| Audio decoding computing time decreases significantly. The biggest benefit to the system is that, in audio playback applications, it can make ARM Core in a dormant state to achieve lower system power consumption. |
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Enabling wireless communications with superconducting ICs
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2006-06-05 |
| Superconducting ICs can be an enabling feature in mobile handsets. Hence, a case can be made to run your signal processing at the highest clock speeds. |
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How to efficiently map apps onto multi-core platforms
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2009-09-25 |
| Mapping applications to multicore systems remains a challenge. This article helps you overcome this hurdle. |
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Boost the speed of sine calculations for processor
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2011-05-02 |
| If software changes don't deliver the speed you need, it's easier than you might think to add hardware accelerators to your design. |
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| A tutorial on digital signalling (Part 1)
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2011-11-22 |
| This series covers digital signalling principles and should be a great tutorial or a refresher. Part 1 provides is an introduction to the series. |
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| Technique probes deep-submicron test
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2000-12-01 |
| This technology news article describes the latest Agilent Technology technique for conducting deep-submicron test schemes. |
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How to calibrate touch-screens
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2002-06-02 |
| Touch-screens are finding their way into a variety of embedded products. Most touch-enabled devices will require a calibration routine. Here's a good one. |
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Secure digital data transfer in portables, Part 2
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2009-05-04 |
| Learn how the security of transferred data over a network depends in the secrecy of these keys. |
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| How to achieve full multi-core design functionality
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2011-09-13 |
| Know the elements designed to provide devices the capabilities for advanced communications infrastructure apps such as media servers & wireless base band. |
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| Radar fundamentals (Part 5)
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2011-09-19 |
| Learn how to use FPGAs to achieve higher performance in Synthetic Aperture Radars. |
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Implementing Virtual Line Crossing Detection
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2010-07-20 |
| This article describes the implementation of Virtual Line Crossing Detection (VLCD) on an Altera Stratix II FPGA and the methodology we used. |
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Platform designs of motor controls allow efficient buildings
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2008-07-28 |
| Appliances should contribute to energy-saving efforts in the face of increasing scarcity of energy resources. |
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Use cryptography to secure authentication, Part 2
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2009-05-29 |
| Learn about various authentication solutions to protect against cloning, fraudulent modification, secret disclosure or other types of misuse. |
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Common problems in multi-core programming, Part 3: Nonblocking algorithms, ping-ponging, memory reclamation
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2009-03-04 |
| Read about non-blocking algorithms, which are immune from lock contention, priority inversion, and convoying. |
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GSM vocoders improve speech transmission
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2004-11-01 |
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| Speed up processor verification with testbench infrastructure reuse
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2011-09-01 |
| Specialised processor verification IP can free engineers from historical development and maintenance commitments. This liberated time and energy can then allow a renewed focus on verification quality and turnaround times. |
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| Embedding HPC: Making super-computing happen
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2011-12-15 |
| Here are a few recent advances in high performance computing for embedded systems. |
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