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From IoT Factories to Operating Rooms: How to Design Better Comms Systems

From IoT Factories to Operating Rooms: How to Design Better Comms Systems

While a factory floor and a medical operating theater share little in common, the equipment used in both areas must deliver trusted and precise operation, which is often mission critical. With the need for smarter systems, more data, and higher fidelity, bandwidth requirements are increasing.


Not All Spring-Loaded Connectors are Created Equal – Enabling Next Generation Wearable Devices

Not All Spring-Loaded Connectors are Created Equal – Enabling Next Generation Wearable Devices

Wearable electronic devices have entered the mainstream, and yet there is still great potential for further expansion in both the consumer and medical markets. Growth in wearable devices can be attributed to advancements in wireless networks, antenna technology, and the miniaturization of rugged and reliable components.


Portability is Key to Competitiveness For PCB Manufacturers

Portability is Key to Competitiveness For PCB Manufacturers

The ability to efficiently move the manufacturing of a product from one physical location to another is critical for any PCB assembly company.


Steps For Ensuring PCB Assembly Success With Valor NPI

Steps For Ensuring PCB Assembly Success With Valor NPI

Today, more than ever, as customer demand patterns become more volatile, performance and productivity are under threat. Across the industry, there is rapidly increasing pressure on engineering and materials infrastructures.


Smart Manufacturing for Electronics

Smart Manufacturing for Electronics

This white paper describes a transformative approach to electronics manufacturing: a completely digitized strategy that supports both printed circuit board (PCB) and mechanical design/manufacturing, uniting the entire product lifecycle – from idea and production to customers and back.


A Modern Solution to Evolving Smoke Safety Regulations

A Modern Solution to Evolving Smoke Safety Regulations

This whitepaper presents the new regulations governing smoke alarms, and it describes how ADI's smoke detection module is designed and tested to meet the new UL-217 8th Ed.


How Software Configurable Hardware Helps Flexibility in Industrial I/O Modules

How Software Configurable Hardware Helps Flexibility in Industrial I/O Modules

Whether used for a process control installation or an industrial automation system, an I/O module (or a field junction box) poses a host of unique challenges in a product's life cycle. Product management, for example, faces key decisions on how many channels and which combinations will be necessary for each product.


Power-Up Phase Determinism Using Multichip Synchronization Features in Integrated Wideband DACs and ADCs

Power-Up Phase Determinism Using Multichip Synchronization Features in Integrated Wideband DACs and ADCs

Renesas Advanced RA Family 32-Bit Microcontroller MCU e-Manual

Renesas Advanced RA Family 32-Bit Microcontroller MCU e-Manual

The Renesas RA Family is a new 32-bit MCU family built on the Arm® Cortex®-M core architecture. Offering a wide range of performance and features, the Renesas RA Family meets the scalability, power consumption, and performance needs of nearly any embedded systems end-product.


Test Solution for eUICC Profile Verification

Test Solution for eUICC Profile Verification

Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Cards(eUICC) have since replaced traditional SIM cards used in the mobile industry. eUICCs can be integrated into anything from mobile devices to car telematics units, machine-to-machine (M2M) devices (e.g., industrial sensors), and consumer devices.


Cooling for Digital Light Processors

Cooling for Digital Light Processors

Digital light processors (DLPs) employ a laser light source and millions of tiny mirrors to produce vibrant, high-resolution images for a wide variety of industries and applications.


Millimeter-Wave Receiver Calibration Made Easier, Cheaper, and Faster

Millimeter-Wave Receiver Calibration Made Easier, Cheaper, and Faster

As bandwidths grow wider and frequencies soar to millimeter-wave and beyond, small margins for error on wideband measurements force RF engineers to look for new ways to reduce linear errors. Even short cables can cause tremendous losses at millimeter-wave frequencies.


Going Beyond: How Better Power and Testing Solutions are Taking the Military and Aerospace Industry to New Heights

Going Beyond: How Better Power and Testing Solutions are Taking the Military and Aerospace Industry to New Heights

Military and aerospace engineers are always pushing to create new, reliable, rugged technologies. There are several key considerations that these engineers must take into account, including designing for a space that undergoes rigorous testing and standardization processes that must be dealt with from the first moment a design is crafted.


Powering the Future: Enabling Education and Research Innovation Through Next-Level Power and Testing Solutions

Powering the Future: Enabling Education and Research Innovation Through Next-Level Power and Testing Solutions

When it comes to the future of industry and the world, there are few markets that matter more than education and research. Education helps mold the minds of tomorrow, while research pushes what is possible, giving us the tools for our next best invention.


The Rise of Renewable Energy: Accelerating Change Through Better Power and Testing Solutions

The Rise of Renewable Energy: Accelerating Change Through Better Power and Testing Solutions

Going "green" isn't just a buzzword in the industry; in both private and public sectors, energy transformation is happening at an increasingly rapid pace. More engineers than ever before find themselves impacted by the design considerations that are natural consequences of a more environmentally-focused industry.


Simplifying Connectivity in Automotive Applications

Simplifying Connectivity in Automotive Applications

As smart technology continues to find its way into the automotive sector, driverless cars with enhanced connectivity requirements and enhanced infotainment options will be here sooner than many think.


Concepts of Signal Integrity - Differential Pairs

Concepts of Signal Integrity - Differential Pairs

Differential pairs are a means of transmitting electronic data using complementary signals. It carries two types of signals: a differential signal excited when the net pair is driven in the odd mode, and a common signal when the net pair is driven in the even mode.


What to Consider Before Selecting a PCB Design Tool

What to Consider Before Selecting a PCB Design Tool

The electronic design automation (EDA) industry is a highly competitive one. However, while keeping production costs low remains a priority, it is the differentiating qualities and capabilities of printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions more than initial cost differences, that help companies save more time and money in the long run. PCB design tools fraught with errors can rack up significant costs and downtime when building out electronic products.


μModule Data Acquisition Solution Eases Engineering Challenges for a Diverse Set of Precision Applications

μModule Data Acquisition Solution Eases Engineering Challenges for a Diverse Set of Precision Applications

The electronic industry’s dynamics are rapidly evolving, and there is less time to build and prototype analog circuits to verify their functionality as the control of research and development (R&D) budgets and time to market (TTM) have become more challenging.


Robust Ethernet Physical Layer Solutions for Time Critical Communications in Harsh Industrial Environments

Robust Ethernet Physical Layer Solutions for Time Critical Communications in Harsh Industrial Environments

Industrial systems are increasingly adopting Ethernet connectivity to solve manufacturers’ key Industry 4.0 and smart factory communication challenges. These challenges include data integration, synchronization, edge connectivity, and system interoperability.