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Silicon Labs Releases Next-Gen Wireless Gecko IoT Platform with Eyes on Scaling the Cloud

Silicon Labs Releases Next-Gen Wireless Gecko IoT Platform with Eyes on Scaling the Cloud

SiLabs' new IoT platform aims to provide what they think designers need most: tools and flexible, secure SoCs.


News Apr 22, 2019 by Mark Hughes
Amphenol M29 Three-Phase Control Power System | New Product Brief

Amphenol M29 Three-Phase Control Power System | New Product Brief

Amphenol Sine Systems PowerBOSS™ M29 Three-Phase Control Power System can be used as an alternative to hard-wiring in motor control and industrial automation.


Samtec mPower 2mm UMPT/UMPS Ultra Micro Power Connectors | New Product Brief

Samtec mPower 2mm UMPT/UMPS Ultra Micro Power Connectors | New Product Brief

Samtec mPower™ 2mm Ultra Micro-Power Terminal and Ultra Micro-Power Socket Power Connectors are a flexible high power solution for power-only or signal and power applications.


The Incredible Shrinking Resistor: The Advantages and Drawbacks of Ever-Smaller Components

The Incredible Shrinking Resistor: The Advantages and Drawbacks of Ever-Smaller Components

The advantages and disadvantages of ever-shrinking components.


Diodes Incorporated Announces ReDriver IC to Boost Signal Quality Over High-Speed PCIe Interfaces

Diodes Incorporated Announces ReDriver IC to Boost Signal Quality Over High-Speed PCIe Interfaces

A new repeater IC is designed to maintain signal integrity for server, storage, and networking applications.


News Apr 19, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
How the Weibull Distribution Is Used in Reliability Engineering

How the Weibull Distribution Is Used in Reliability Engineering

This article discusses the Weibull distribution and how it is used in the field of reliability engineering.


Designing a System Monitor 4-MUX LCD Driver Solution

Designing a System Monitor 4-MUX LCD Driver Solution

This application note describes a simple hardware implementation of a 4-Mux LCD driver using time division multiplexing techniques along with system monitoring using a GreenPAK IC.


Microchip Technology PIC-IoT WG Development Board | Featured Product Spotlight

Microchip Technology PIC-IoT WG Development Board | Featured Product Spotlight

Microchip Technology’s PIC-IoT WG Development Board is a plug-and-play device that makes it easy to securely connect to the Google Cloud IoT Platform.


Phoenix Contact FINEPITCH Board-to-Board Connector | Tech Specs

Phoenix Contact FINEPITCH Board-to-Board Connector | Tech Specs

FINEPITCH connectors, available with a 0.8 or a 1.27 millimeter pitch, have a long wipe length to address a wide range of stack heights, and the housing design permits a large compensation tolerance.


new products Apr 18, 2019 by TTI, Inc
Understanding Amplitude Quantization Error for ADCs

Understanding Amplitude Quantization Error for ADCs

This article examines the quantization error of an analog-to-digital converter.


TT Electronics Announces New Gate Drive Transformers for Automotive Battery Management Applications

TT Electronics Announces New Gate Drive Transformers for Automotive Battery Management Applications

As the EV market grows, TT Electronics offers new small, rugged gate drive transformer options for automotive.


News Apr 17, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Mini Evaluation Kit | New Product Brief

NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Mini Evaluation Kit | New Product Brief

NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Mini Evaluation Kit is a feature-rich platform for developing with the i.MX 8M Mini multimedia applications processor.


Silanna Semiconductor Announces New Active Clamp Flyback PWM Controller for Efficient Power Design

Silanna Semiconductor Announces New Active Clamp Flyback PWM Controller for Efficient Power Design

Silanna Semiconductor releases new active clamp flyback PWM controller for power design.


News Apr 16, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

In this article, we explain how the use of open-source functional simulators like Antmicro’s Renode can be an integral part of hardware-software co-design efforts.


Input Capacitance in Analog Circuits: How to Compensate for Input Capacitance of Op-Amps

Input Capacitance in Analog Circuits: How to Compensate for Input Capacitance of Op-Amps

Learn about the effect of input parasitic capacitance and how to compensate for it in analog circuit design.


Bourns Series Gas Discharge Tube Surge Arrestors | New Product Brief

Bourns Series Gas Discharge Tube Surge Arrestors | New Product Brief

Bourns 2019 Series GDT Surge Arrestors use Bourns’ FLAT technology to enable a high current rating in a low-profile package that offers significant height and volume savings over equivalent 8mm SMD GDTs.


Introduction To Real-Time Embedded Systems

Introduction To Real-Time Embedded Systems

This article looks at real-time embedded systems including classifications, constraints, and design patterns.


Renesas Electronics RTK-251-1PowerBank3 Board | New Product Brief

Renesas Electronics RTK-251-1PowerBank3 Board | New Product Brief

Renesas Electronics’ RTK-251-1PowerBank3 is a reference board for a 3 cell lithium ion battery power bank based on a Renesas USB Power Delivery Controller and a Buck-Boost NVDC charger.


Improving Temperature Sensor Accuracy for Thermocouples and RTDs with Delta-Sigma Converters

Improving Temperature Sensor Accuracy for Thermocouples and RTDs with Delta-Sigma Converters

This design solution evaluates the accuracy of thermocouples used for high-temperature measurements as well as resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) used for local cold-junction-compensation (CJC) points.


Trinamic Introduces the TMC5160 SilentStepStick for Silent Stepper Motor Operation

Trinamic Introduces the TMC5160 SilentStepStick for Silent Stepper Motor Operation

The TMC5160 SilentStepStick is a tiny breakout board that can drive motors up to 3A phase current at 35V.


News Apr 11, 2019 by Gary Elinoff