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Designing Smart Meters with Circuit Protection, Sensing, and Power Control Capabilities

Designing Smart Meters with Circuit Protection, Sensing, and Power Control Capabilities

This article offers an overview of the various component options for smart meter design and how they can improve the operation of the meters into which they are designed.


Understanding Bandwidth in Communications and Computing

Understanding Bandwidth in Communications and Computing

This article discusses how to interpret and specify bandwidth in systems that involve data transmission and digital processing.


What Is Bandwidth?

What Is Bandwidth?

This article explores the surprisingly complicated details associated with a word that we frequently use but perhaps don’t fully understand.


Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

This article explores the pros and cons of connectivity options for IoT edge device design.


Harting ix Industrial Ethernet Interface | New Product Brief

Harting ix Industrial Ethernet Interface | New Product Brief

Harting ix Industrial is a smaller, more robust interface for Ethernet and other high-speed interfaces.


Digi International TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router | New Product Brief

Digi International TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router | New Product Brief

Digi International’s TransPort WR64 Dual Cellular LTE-Advanced Router is designed to meet the physical and functional demands of transportation and mobile environments.


Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS | Featured Product Spotlight

Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS | Featured Product Spotlight

Phoenix Contact QUINT DC UPS is an intelligent, networked, DIN rail UPS for industrial networks.


Historical Engineers: Michael Faraday, a Founding Father of Electrical Science

Historical Engineers: Michael Faraday, a Founding Father of Electrical Science

Who was Michael Faraday? What did he contribute to the field of electrical engineering?


News Nov 05, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Renesas Electronics Synergy AE-CLOUD2 LTE IoT Connectivity Kit | New Product Brief

Renesas Electronics Synergy AE-CLOUD2 LTE IoT Connectivity Kit | New Product Brief

The Renesas Synergy AE-CLOUD2 LTE IoT Connectivity Kit is a platform for the rapid development of IoT devices with global LTE connectivity.


Environmental Sensors: Omron, Bosch, and Sensirion Sensors for Smart Homes, IoT Devices, Wearables

Environmental Sensors: Omron, Bosch, and Sensirion Sensors for Smart Homes, IoT Devices, Wearables

What counts as an environmental sensor anyway? Check out some of the leading environmental sensors and what they measure.


News Oct 29, 2018 by Kate Smith
STMicroelectronics STPTIC-15L2C4 Tunable Integrated Capacitor | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics STPTIC-15L2C4 Tunable Integrated Capacitor | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics’ Parascan Tunable Integrated Capacitors are ideal for adaptive RF tuning applications. The STPTIC is based on Parascan dielectric.


On-Chip Diagnostic Features: A Single-Channel 16-Bit DAC from Analog Devices

On-Chip Diagnostic Features: A Single-Channel 16-Bit DAC from Analog Devices

In this article, we’ll take a look at the Analog Devices AD5758, which is a single-channel DAC with dynamic power control and HART connectivity.


News Oct 23, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Amphenol RF HD-EFI Series Micro-Miniature Interface Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol RF HD-EFI Series Micro-Miniature Interface Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol RF HD-EFI Series Micro-Miniature Interface Connectors is a three-piece interconnect system for board-to-board connections with large board tolerances, blind mating, and multiple RF connections.


Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

This article will look at the most important features of the TLV7031 which is a nanoPower comparator from Texas Instruments.


News Oct 17, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Swarm Communications and CubeSats: An Update on the Advantages and Challenges of Nanosatellites

Swarm Communications and CubeSats: An Update on the Advantages and Challenges of Nanosatellites

Light, inexpensive and easy to launch and replace, nanosatellites are tiny space vehicles that are becoming ever more mainstream, presenting novel advancements and unique challenges.


News Oct 10, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
The Location Awareness Engine and Hardware Behind Nanotron’s Real-Time Location System Tracking

The Location Awareness Engine and Hardware Behind Nanotron’s Real-Time Location System Tracking

Tracking via a real-time location system (RTLS) has proven important for a variety of industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, traffic management, healthcare, and general location analytics. This article takes a look at a location engine server with ultrawideband functionality and some of the MEMS-based hardware that puts RTLS into action.


News Oct 08, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
How to Process I/Q Signals in a Software-Defined RF Receiver

How to Process I/Q Signals in a Software-Defined RF Receiver

This article discusses the mathematical significance of I/Q signals and presents the final steps in the DSP algorithm for decoding frequency-shift-keying baseband signals.


Amphenol SV Microwave Solderless PCB Edge Launch Connectors | Tech Specs

Amphenol SV Microwave Solderless PCB Edge Launch Connectors | Tech Specs

SV Microwave’s Solderless PCB Edge Launch connectors offer a testing solution that does not cause damage to the board and are ideal for high-frequency PCB applications.


new products Oct 04, 2018 by TTI, Inc
How to Use I/Q Signals to Design a Robust FSK Decoder

How to Use I/Q Signals to Design a Robust FSK Decoder

An improved algorithm, in conjunction with quadrature modulation, can achieve FSK decoding that is not affected by phase misalignment.


Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: Understanding Phase Misalignment in FSK Decoding

Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: Understanding Phase Misalignment in FSK Decoding

In this article we’ll use Scilab to explore the effect of unpredictable phase variations in a demodulated frequency-shift-keying baseband signal.