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Techniques for Improving Impedance Mismatch

Introduction Impedance matching is a complex subject cloaked in a certain degree of mystery.  Whenever a circuit fails or systemic…

10 years ago

Accelerating Spur Searches by up to 500 Times with High-performance Spectrum Analysis in a Vector Network Analyzer

Whether an engineer is designing, developing or testing a new component, they will often use a network analyzer and a…

10 years ago

Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a…

10 years ago

Simulating and Testing of Signal Processing Methods for Frequency Stepped Chirp Radar

Modern radar systems serve a broad range of commercial, civil, scientific and military applications. In addition to the traditional application…

10 years ago

Product How-to: Integrated isolation and power bridges the gap between USB and traditional industrial interfaces

Introduction As a standard for serial communication to peripheral devices, USB is ubiquitous today. However, industrial devices still rely in…

10 years ago

In the mix

Correctly mixing the output of RGB LEDs is an art, but can be helped with a demonstration board and a…

10 years ago

Think big but start small: Tapping into rich analytics with IoT

If you’re a business owner or enterprise beginning to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), chances are you’ve started connecting…

10 years ago

Embedded Serial Bus Debugging using Oscilloscopes

Introduction In the electronics industry, the drive to reduce size, power, and cost of products is leading to an increased…

10 years ago

The key to early 5G investigation – test tools for new network paradigms

  The explosion of wireless data demand continues, with analysts predicting between 20 and 50 billion devices by the year…

10 years ago

Five things every engineer should know about PDN

We generally associate the Power Distribution Network (“PDN”) with the power circuits used to drive CPUs and FPGAs. The increasing…

10 years ago