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    RF Power Amplifier Efficiency: Big Challenges for Designers

    The basic laws of thermodynamics ensure that no electronic device can achieve 100% efficiency- although switch-mode power supplies come close (approaching 98%). Unfortunately, anything...

    Automotive Safety and ISO26262 – Is my Automotive IC Safe Yet?

    A number of companies are contemplating entering the fast-growing automotive IC market. However, there are significant barriers to entry and one of those is...

    Antialiasing Filtering Considerations for High Precision SAR Analog-to-Digital Converters

    At a time when IoT and the cloud are facts of life and all the rage in the trade press, advances are still being...

    Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Isolation Design—How to Manage Project Risk with Next-Generation Solutions

    Electric Content Is on the Rise There’s an undeniable trend toward smaller and lighter electrical systems, with automotive electrification as a prime example. Professional services...

    Two-Stage Power Supply Reference Design for Field Transmitters

    This dual output reference design provides an example of how to power FPGAs, ASICs, or MCUs when space-constraints are a primary concern. The wide...

    System-level PCB design environment updated

    The focus of CR-8000 2018, according to the Zuken, is on enabling efficient front-loading of design constraints and specifications to the design creation process,...

    Synopsys Users Group India Celebrates 19th Year with Record Gathering of the Semiconductor Design Community

    Synopsys, Inc. announced, it will host its 19th annual Synopsys Users Group (SNUG TM ) conference July 11-12, 2018 at the Leela Palace in...

    DC-DC Voltage Regulation: Complete Solution Targeting PoL Market

    The need for high performance in the CPU VR (voltage regulator) world has been with us for a few years now, but increasingly the...

    Precision Ultralow Power High Side Current Sense

    Introduction Precision high side measurement of microamp cur-rents requires a small value sense resistor and a low offset voltage amplifier. The  LTC®2063 zero-drift amplifier has...

    Low Power Design of Wakeup Receiver for Wireless Sensor Nodes

    Introduction Wireless Sensor Networks consists of thousands of distributed nodes. These nodes are used for a wide range of applications like environmental monitoring-monitoring of air...

    Keeping The Lights On: ESD And Heat Protection For LED Lighting Systems

    There are several factors that can affect solid state lighting in electronic design from stress issues, to packaging-related issues to component-related issues. Design engineers...

    How to get more signal chain from your MCU in factory automation applications

    As factories become increasingly smarter, so does the technology used to create the sensors, automation and equipment that controls and monitors these installations. Microcontrollers...

    How high-precision ADCs enable greater accuracy in CW Doppler ultrasound

    Medical ultrasound is a non-invasive method for imaging the body’s internal structures like organs. It processes by transmitting high-frequency sound waves into the body...

    Design Technology Using AI for Magnetic Material Geometries

    Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of technology that can automate the design of magnetic material geometries, using AI to...

    How could a multiplying DAC be used other than as a DAC?

    Most digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are operated with a fixed positive reference voltage and output voltage or a current that is proportional to the product...

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