Achieve a cost-effective LCD driving solution
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2009-11-19 |
| A multitude of consumer applications contain graphic TFT-LCD panels, challenging system designers to create a low-cost TFT-LCD interface. Here's how you can attain that design goal. |
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Choosing the right voltage, current sensors for hybrids
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2009-09-02 |
| Developing hybrid and electric vehicles is now a high priority. Thus, many electric drive solutions have been introduced. But the question of the best way of storing energy has not yet been answered. |
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Supercapacitors enhance flash, audio in mobile phones
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2007-06-05 |
| Delivering high power and high quality audio in music-enabled mobile phones can be full of challenges, but here's how a supercapacitor can overcome them. |
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| Fundamentals of core-based FPGA design (Part 1)
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2011-08-22 |
| The first instalment of this series provides an overview of FPGA processor core types—firm, hard and soft—and the pros and cons that need to be evaluated in the context of an embedded system's requirements. |
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Solving design difficulties associated with flyback converters
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2009-08-14 |
| This article presents a circuit based on LT3573 isolated monolithic flyback converter IC that solves many of the design difficulties commonly associated with flyback converters. |
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Driving an external monitor from handhelds
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2008-03-01 |
| Mobile applications with features such as VGA used in many multimedia applications present many system design challenges in the areas of power management, device interoperability, and user interaction. However, there are measures that address frame rate conversion, X/Y swap operation, frame rate conversion, configuration, voltage level translation and power management. |
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Using CPLDs to manage power consumption in portables
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2006-09-26 |
| This article discusses two methods for reducing an application's power consumption through CPLDs. |
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A Whole New Way To Design Backlight Inverters For Mobile Computing Applications
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2001-07-02 |
| A Whole New Way To Design Backlight Inverters For Mobile Computing Applications |
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Design with Class D amps
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2009-03-19 |
| Know how to deal with output filtering, input signal conditioning and power supply when designing with Class D amps. |
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Software tools for greener cars: Transition to plug-in hybrids
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2009-02-09 |
| Read about the use of software tools for building hybrid vehicles that will optimise fuel efficiency and performance. |
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Solutions for LDO load transient improvement
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2008-11-18 |
| This article presents a proposed LDO regulator circuit integrated using 0.5µm CMOS technology. |
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Efficiency and size: challenges in power management for portable devices
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2007-09-11 |
| What to focus on when designing a power subsystem for a handheld device, and what's lacking. |
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| A primer on Bluetooth Low Energy (Part 1)
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2011-08-08 |
| This two-part series gives an introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and its use in energy-constrained applications. |
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Chip-scale methods unlock renewable energy boom
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2009-05-18 |
| Read about the techniques from chip industries that are being adapted by solar energy companies. |
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Learn about regeneration, Part 2: Motor as a generator
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2009-03-05 |
| Read about the motor as generator, and other example formulas for calculating the required size of a motor. |
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Learn about camera phone flash units
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2008-10-28 |
| Read this comparison of supercapacitor-based LED flash with xenon flash solutions. |
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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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| Photo gallery: What iPhone 4S is made of
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2011-10-25 |
| This image gallery showcases what can be found inside the recently released iPhone 4s. |
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Designing low-cost wireless game controllers
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2004-04-22 |
| Designing low-cost wireless game controllers |
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DSP power optimisation methods for wireless applications
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2008-06-12 |
| Power optimisation, together with algorithmic, software and hardware techniques, can lead to systems with substantially more usage time. |
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Breeding smart multimedia for a mobile world
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2004-09-16 |
| Breeding smart multimedia for a mobile world |
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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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Switching supplies drive LEDs in automobiles
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2006-09-07 |
| This article discusses the automotive LED applications that require a dedicated high-power, yet simple and efficient, LED driver. |
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| A primer on Bluetooth Low Energy (Part 2)
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2011-09-21 |
| The second instalment of this two-part series tackles the Bluetooth software stack partition. |
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Inductors and multipliers: Get efficient energy transfer
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2007-01-01 |
| This article provides useful information on inductors and multipliers, used for the purpose of getting efficient energy transfer.. |
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Capitalize on Class-D driver benefits
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2008-03-01 |
| Though the linear Class-AB topology is more common, Class-D audio amplification circuits, which have been around for years, generate higher efficiency and small size compared to the former. |
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| Increase switcher efficiency, reduce size
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2008-08-04 |
| Board layout differentiates a good switcher design from a bad one. Today's switching regulators and supplies are compact and powerful, but a major trade-off is their higher switching frequency that makes board design all the more difficult. |
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Reducing power in MID's displays
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2009-09-03 |
| Here's a design tip on reducing power in mobile Internet devices' (MIDs') displays. |
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How to increase street light solar panels' efficiency
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2009-08-13 |
| As the world looks for cleaner and greener alternatives, solar-powered street lights continue to benefit from advancements in semiconductors to produce more cost-effective implementations. |
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How to build sensor nets with PLC
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2010-04-07 |
| The power of wireless sensor networks lies in the ability to deploy large numbers of tiny nodes that assemble and configure themselves. |
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