Worried About Designing Power for Your FPGA?
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View ArticleGet a Head Start on Next-Generation 20 nm Designs
Altera: Start designing today with Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs, and experience the breakthrough capabilities not possible in previous midrange devices. Download Altera’s Quartus® II software Arria® 10...
View ArticleCyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving...
View ArticleResettable fuse enhances power system reliability
Diodes Incorporated has introduced the NIS5132 resettable electronic fuse, which is suitable for hot plug consumer and industrial products, including external disks, printers and servers.
View ArticleTop PCB design articles of 2013
From printing your own PCB to corrosion, this year’s line up of top articles spans EDA to prototype to fault detection.
View ArticleAudio test app for Android automates Bluetooth, analog audio testing for...
Audio Precision has released an Android app for testing smartphone audio quality. Serving as an interface between the Android device and one of Audio Precision’s APx audio analyzers, the app allows...
View ArticleTransistor caps off 'Miracle Month,' December 23, 1947
On this day in tech history, the “Miracle Month” concluded with the presentation of the transistor by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley to senior management at Bell Labs.
View ArticleDesignCon 2014 tutorial preview
Discounted passes to attend these tutorials (the conference will host 13 tutorials in all) at DesignCon are available through January 4.
View ArticleGlass weave skew problems may be solved
A new PCB material could solve a statistical problem in high-speed digital signals.
View ArticlePortable and scalable solution for off-screen video frame composition and...
This technical paper discusses an efficient, portable and scalable solution for off-screen video frame composition and decomposition functionality in embedded multimedia systems. It briefly explains...
View ArticleSnap-in aluminum caps extend voltage range to 500 V
Vishay Intertechnology has expanded its 159 PUL-SI series of snap-in aluminum electrolytic capacitors with devices that have a rated voltage of 500 V at +105°C and a useful life of more than 3000 hours.
View ArticlePrototyping boards target Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone
Mikronauts’ line of easy-to-assemble prototyping boards, which includes versions that are specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone hardware platforms, are silk-screened on both sides,...
View ArticleDesign a cost-effective magnetic card reader
Reading a magnetic card is a challenge as the amplitude of sensor signal varies with the speed at which card is swiped, the quality of the card, and the sensitivity of magnetic read head. Frequency...
View ArticleOh Oh—Improved traffic enforcement sensors
The fact is that law enforcement is armed better than ever with traffic detection devices based on—you got it—your friendly cool sensors.
View ArticleNORAD begins tracking Santa, December 24, 1955
On this day in tech history, a typo in a Colorado advertisement had children calling the Continental Air Defense Command to talk to Santa, starting a tradition where NORAD tracks Santa's journey on...
View ArticleComputer pioneer Charles Babbage is born, December 26, 1791
On this day in tech history, Charles Babbage, who is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, and the concept of a programmable computer, was born.
View ArticleDetecting ESD Events
If you find your product has exhibits random upsets, such as loss of data or unusual circuit resets, it could very well be caused by ESD. This article describes several methods to detect these events.
View ArticleThe Pythagoreans' beautiful fallacy
The Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, founded a school around the fifth century B.C. Pythagoras and his students/followers believed that the universe could be understood in terms of whole numbers, but...
View ArticleApollo 8 returns to Earth, December 27, 1968
On this day in tech history, Apollo 8 splashed down in the Northern Pacific Ocean after becoming the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit.
View ArticleWide-dynamic-range, high-accuracy RF power detectors
Analog Devices has added two RF power detectors with wide dynamic range and high levels of accuracy and temperature stability.
View ArticleMains-dimmable LED lamp driver offers flexibility, reduced BOM cost
Diodes Incorporated has introduced the AP1694, an AC-DC controller which provides a universal high-performance driver solution for a variety of mains-dimmable LED lamp designs.
View ArticleLatching digital Hall-effect sensor IC has built-in pull-up resistors
Honeywell Sensing and Control’s latest latching Hall-effect sensor ICs feature built-in pull-up resistors and provide reliable switching points with a high magnetic sensitivity.
View ArticleLDO offers extensive current monitoring capability
Linear Technology Corporation has released the latest addition to the company's LDO+ family which offers functionality previously unavailable in linear regulators.
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