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Making Quick and Easy Measurements of Cables in the Field with FieldFox

By Tom Hoppin, Keysight Technologies, Inc.* *Keysight Technologies Inc., formerly Agilent Technologies electronic measurement business December 6, 2015 Comments Off on Making Quick and Easy Measurements of Cables in the Field with FieldFox

Today, engineers and technicians typically experience multiple cable testing challenges in the field. Keysight Technologies recently introduced two innovative measurement options that make its FieldFox handheld analyzers the industry’s most... Read More

coB LEd lamps: a growing selection of dedicated drivers

"FUTURE POWER SOLUTIONS" RECOM December 5, 2015 Comments Off on coB LEd lamps: a growing selection of dedicated drivers

The Chip-on-Board (CoB) format for the packaging of high-power LEDs for lighting is enjoying a spectacular surge in popularity. Just like discrete LEDs assembled by the user on a user-designed... Read More

Europe has an opportunity to catch up on the mobile front

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/ December 2, 2015 Comments Off on Europe has an opportunity to catch up on the mobile front

The European Union’s Digital Single Market plan offers an opportunity to foster the investment-friendly environment for mobile network operators and technology companies needed to bolster wireless commerce across the region... Read More

Energy-Conscious Sensing for Mobile Motor Drives

Jeff Smoot, VP of Motion Control at CUI Inc. December 1, 2015 Comments Off on Energy-Conscious Sensing for Mobile Motor Drives

Battery-powered mobile applications can now operate for longer per charge using an efficient new encoder technology Until recently, autonomous robots and aerial drones have been more or less the sole... Read More

Challenges in verifying PCI Express in complex SoCs

Haim Cohen, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. December 1, 2015 Comments Off on Challenges in verifying PCI Express in complex SoCs

PCI-Express (PCIe) is the backbone of today’s complex systems requiring high speed data communication with high throughput. It is being used extensively in different applications like computer cards, graphic cards,... Read More

Intelligent power modules: the latest product developments, and how designers can take advantage of them

"FUTURE POWER SOLUTIONS" MOTOR CONTROL APPLICATION November 30, 2015 Comments Off on Intelligent power modules: the latest product developments, and how designers can take advantage of them

Worldwide, the move to replace simple fixed-speed motor drives with more sophisticated Variable-Speed Drives (VSDs) is rapidly gathering pace. Driven by new regulations, such as the European Commission’s ErP (Energyrelated... Read More

Opening doors

Justin Bauer | MicroChip November 29, 2015 Comments Off on Opening doors

An explanation of how to complete a low-cost design and analysis using a single-phase AC induction motors and an 8bit microcontroller in a garage door application Small AC induction motors,... Read More

Positioning control: Not where you should be?

https://www.maxonmotor.co.uk/ November 29, 2015 Comments Off on Positioning control: Not where you should be?

Torsion and elasticity could be to blame. When we think of a gearhead, we tend to assume that it is incompressible and rigid, the truth is it still bends, compresses... Read More