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ADPD103 gives Smart Watch a Heart-beat

Forty years back when I got my first watch, I had to wind it up to fuel the mechanical spring…

11 years ago

Realizing the Potential of Software-Defined Power

Software-defined power architectures can deliver significant gains in efficiency and uptime for data centers and network infrastructure. Early adopters have…

11 years ago

Know your FPGA

The field programmable gate array (FPGA) has become a key component in many designs. Their flexibility makes it possible to…

11 years ago

Balancing the tradeoffs in 3-Phase BLDC motor-control designs

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are gaining increased market share over other motor technologies, particularly in the automotive and medical markets,…

11 years ago

Advantages of Cascading Reflectionless Filters

Cascading filters in series is commonly used to enhance stopband rejection and steepness in the transition band.  The technique can…

11 years ago

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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 years ago