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Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

The global condition-based monitoring (CbM) market has experienced significant growth over the past few years, and it will likely only continue to grow in the near future. This growth coincides with the rapid advancement of MEMS accelerometers for use in vibration sensing applications, now rivaling the once-dominant piezoelectric (or PZT) accelerometer. 


Analog/Mixed-Signal Design and Simulation in a Tanner Flow

Analog/Mixed-Signal Design and Simulation in a Tanner Flow

This white paper displays how the Tanner flow simplifies the design and verification process of Analog/Mixed-Signal design. It also describes how the user can verify design functionality, connectivity, and performance at all levels of the design hierarchy and for all integrated circuit (IC) applications.


Improving the Reliability and Performance of RF ICs With Advanced EDA Technology

Improving the Reliability and Performance of RF ICs With Advanced EDA Technology

In this white paper, the reader will learn how the Calibre tools provide enhanced verification and fill optimization that can drastically reduce the number of simulations required. It also discusses how the tools achieve the aforementioned while still ensuring designs will perform reliably in conformance with their design specifications over the lifetime of the products in which they are used. 


New Optical Interface Enhances Industrial Machinery

New Optical Interface Enhances Industrial Machinery

This tech paper from Yokowo provides a description of current fiber optic cables and connectors as well as an introduction to the next generation connectivity solutions for machine vision applications.


AI Technologies Transform Industrial Control Automation

AI Technologies Transform Industrial Control Automation

AI-enabled industrial control automation creates fresh opportunities to innovate and adapt manufacturing processes, building on a foundation of digital transformation and network advances across the intelligent edge.


Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit Demonstration Project

Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit Demonstration Project

Developing cost-effective industrial image processing systems requires high-performance cameras and flexible image-processing systems capable of adaption.


Source Control, Git, and Industrial Automation

Source Control, Git, and Industrial Automation

Source control systems have become ubiquitous in the IT world but have not become a major component of operational technology (in particular, PLC programming). There is an increasing, popular movement in the industrial controls world to bring modern source control systems to PLC programming.


Avnet Silica IO-Link Handbook

Avnet Silica IO-Link Handbook

Today’s fanless programmable logic controller (PLC) and IO-Link® gateway systems must dissipate large amounts of power depending on the I/O configuration (IO-Link, digital input/output, analog input/outputs).


IoT Critical Infrastructure Checklist

IoT Critical Infrastructure Checklist

Designing a critical infrastructure system today presents a host of safety, security, and security challenges, in addition to implementing a connection to the Internet of Things (IoT). Now more than ever, companies must develop a robust IoT critical infrastructure plan to ensure competitive differentiation, optimize their operations, and transform their businesses digitally.


Ensuring Maximum Uptime in Smart Meters With TAIYO YUDEN Supercapacitors

Ensuring Maximum Uptime in Smart Meters With TAIYO YUDEN Supercapacitors

Global energy consumption has experienced a sustained uptrend over the last few decades. Technological innovation, higher industrial production, rapid urbanization, and population growth are just a few of the many trends driving the need for more energy. According to the EIA, global energy demand now outpaces overall population growth.


Key Specifications, Ratings, and Applications of Industrial Inductors

Key Specifications, Ratings, and Applications of Industrial Inductors

Industrial ratings present a challenge for inductors. This is because industrial-rated components need to have a wider operating temperature range, and they are expected to operate with a high level of reliability without incurring substantial additional costs. Due to the stringent requirements of industrial ratings, these inductors must be high quality and low cost.


Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

The global condition-based monitoring (CbM) market has experienced significant growth over the past few years, and it will likely only continue to grow in the near future. This growth coincides with the rapid advancement of MEMS accelerometers for use in vibration sensing applications, now rivaling the once-dominant piezoelectric (or PZT) accelerometer. 


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.


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.


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.


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.


Recent Developments in Reliable Connectivity for Portable Battery Power

Recent Developments in Reliable Connectivity for Portable Battery Power

Power Integrity Measurements With R&S®RTP Oscilloscopes

Power Integrity Measurements With R&S®RTP Oscilloscopes