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COTS Testing and Design for Safety with Samtec’s SET Initiative

COTS Testing and Design for Safety with Samtec’s SET Initiative

This article introduces Severe Environment Testing (SET), a safety testing standard that bridges the gap between a full MIL-STD product and a COTS product to provide additional confidence in the safety of a COTS product.


Utilizing DC-DC Converters in Space-Critical Power System Applications

Utilizing DC-DC Converters in Space-Critical Power System Applications

Power system designers are constantly under pressure because they are tasked with developing highly adaptive solutions that comply with today’s operating environments without interrupting design-to-manufacture cycles.


How Will 5G Networks Improve Location Awareness?

How Will 5G Networks Improve Location Awareness?

3GPP Release 16 holds the promise to make high precision location services cheaper and more reliable. Exploiting new signal properties in combination with a variety of non-cellular technologies could enable forms of hybrid positioning.


How Do I Prep My PCB for Fabrication? Accelerating PCB Assembly with Design Best Practices

How Do I Prep My PCB for Fabrication? Accelerating PCB Assembly with Design Best Practices

In this article, Parker Dillman, lead EE and co-founder of MacroFab, covers how to best prepare your PCB designs for fabrication and assembly.


Design Solution: Using a Small Amount of Space to Add More USB Ports to a Vehicle

Design Solution: Using a Small Amount of Space to Add More USB Ports to a Vehicle

This article looks at a solution to add additional USB charging ports to a vehicle using a single chip containing all the necessary parts and delivers 5V to the device.


GaN Breaks Barriers—RF Power Amplifiers Go Wide and High

GaN Breaks Barriers—RF Power Amplifiers Go Wide and High

This article describes the state of the semiconductor technology that is enabling new developments with shorter gate length GaAs and GaN transistors, circuit design considerations to achieve optimum performance, and examples of both GaAs and GaN wideband power amplifiers (PAs) that demonstrate today’s technology.


High Definition, Low Delay, SDR-Based Video Transmission in UAV Applications

High Definition, Low Delay, SDR-Based Video Transmission in UAV Applications

Integrated RF agile transceivers are not only widely employed in software-defined radio (SDR) architectures in cellular telephone base stations, such as multiservice distributed access system (MDAS) and small cell, but also for wireless HD video transmission for industrial, commercial, and military applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).


An Introduction to Schmitt Triggers and the Legacy of Otto Schmitt

An Introduction to Schmitt Triggers and the Legacy of Otto Schmitt

Learn about how Schmitt triggers work and their inventor, Otto Schmitt.


Promising Research for Carbon Nanotube Technology in Electrical Cabling Fabrication

Promising Research for Carbon Nanotube Technology in Electrical Cabling Fabrication

An overview of research being done on the use of carbon nanotubes in cabling.


Commercial Protocols and Aerospace Cabling: Finding the Right Balance

Commercial Protocols and Aerospace Cabling: Finding the Right Balance

Some tips for choosing the right the type of cable for your desired application.


What’s Up With Digital Downconverters

What’s Up With Digital Downconverters

Radio architectures can contain more downconversion stages than ever. Here are some tips to keep up.