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Harnessing Secure Microcontroller Know-How to Protect Connected Devices

Harnessing Secure Microcontroller Know-How to Protect Connected Devices

As modern life increasingly moves online, more powerful secure microcontrollers and other secure ICs are emerging.


Implementing LTE Cat 1 Communications for IoT and M2M Applications

Implementing LTE Cat 1 Communications for IoT and M2M Applications

Learn about LTE Cat 1's specifications and how you can use it in designs.


What’s New with Logic Gates?

What’s New with Logic Gates?

2016 saw some very interesting innovations in logics from universities and research groups that are as intriguing as they are unconventional!


Phase Response in Active Filters: The Band-Pass Response

Phase Response in Active Filters: The Band-Pass Response

While filters are designed primarily for their amplitude response, the phase response can be important in some applications.


Understanding Switching Regulator Output Artifacts Expedites Power Supply Design

Understanding Switching Regulator Output Artifacts Expedites Power Supply Design

Understanding these artifacts allows designers to successfully integrate switching regulators in a wider range of high-performance, noise-sensitive applications.


Changes in Electricity Generation and Use Strengthen the Case for DC Power Distribution

Changes in Electricity Generation and Use Strengthen the Case for DC Power Distribution

The growing need to create electricity from a wider variety of energy sources including renewables is driving growing interest in DC power distribution over long distances and within buildings.


Embedded FPGA: Changing the Way Chips Are Designed

Embedded FPGA: Changing the Way Chips Are Designed

Learn how embedded FPGAs work and what advantages they offer.


Ferrite Beads Demystified

Ferrite Beads Demystified

Learn how to get the most out of ferrite beads in your designs.


USB Type-C Cables: The New Frontier

USB Type-C Cables: The New Frontier

USB Type-C: the final frontier. These are the trials and tribulations of navigating this new cable.


Designing for Low Noise Feedback Control with MEMS Gyroscopes

Designing for Low Noise Feedback Control with MEMS Gyroscopes

Learn about noise behaviors in MEMS gyroscopes.


How to Use an E-Paper Display in Embedded Applications

How to Use an E-Paper Display in Embedded Applications

Learn how e-paper displays work and how to integrate low power e-paper displays into your embedded projects.


Practical Filter Design Challenges and Considerations for Precision ADCs

Practical Filter Design Challenges and Considerations for Precision ADCs

Precision analog-to-digital converters can be tricky. Here are some pointers to get the most out of them.


Using Zero-IF to Reduce PCB Footprint and Cost

Using Zero-IF to Reduce PCB Footprint and Cost

Learn how to make more efficient designs for RF applications using Zero-IF architecture.


Hardware-Based Trust Provides Key to IoT Security

Hardware-Based Trust Provides Key to IoT Security

Security is more important than ever for IoT designs.


Choosing a Wireless Protocol for Home Automation

Choosing a Wireless Protocol for Home Automation

Which wireless protocol should you use when designing a home automation device?


MIPI D-PHY Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

MIPI D-PHY Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

This video shows the R&S RTO-K26 MIPI D-PHY compliance test options which provides automated testing to the MIPI D-PHY standard for camera and display interfaces.


Evaluating the Performance of RF Assemblies Controlled by a MIPI-RFFE Interface with an Oscilloscope

Evaluating the Performance of RF Assemblies Controlled by a MIPI-RFFE Interface with an Oscilloscope

This video demonstrates how the R&S RTO-K40 option can be used to measure response times of front end components such as power amplifiers (PA) and switches controlled by the MIPI RFFE control interface.


Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Internet of Things (IoT) devices combine multiple functional cores in highly integrated Wireless Embedded designs and face often challenging long-term battery live time requirement.


Capturing of Intermittent RF Signals with the Zone Trigger with an Oscilloscope

Capturing of Intermittent RF Signals with the Zone Trigger with an Oscilloscope

Zone Triggering typically allows to define a trigger condition based on an area of voltage and time.


Analysis of Wideband Pulse Signals with an Oscilloscope

Analysis of Wideband Pulse Signals with an Oscilloscope

This video shows how the R&S RTO oscilloscope with its vector signal explorer (VSE) software can be used to analyze wide band pulsed RF signals in terms of frequency, phase, amplitude, and timing.