Modern power distribution systems often contain multiple power sources integrated within one system. A simple variant may be the common double-ended substation, which can be further complicated by additional emergency or alternate sources. This presents significant complexity to the designer attempting to design a protection...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Although not part of the PCI Express spec, nontransparent bridging is completely consistent with it and can support multiprocessor systems with only minimal software initialization efforts.
For PCI Express technology to realize its full potential as the interconnect solution for chip-to-chip and backplane switching...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology continues to transform radar systems and wireless cellular Base Transceiver Station (BTS) systems. DSP technology has made possible the dramatic gains in radar sensitivity, range and image quality, as well as the gains in the cell phone radio performance, data bandwidth and power...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
While price and density play large roles in selecting dynamic random access memory (DRAM), many other considerations must be taken into account. For example, long-term product support is a key consideration for many applications.
Manufacturers of products with long product lifecycles, such as network infrastructure...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, cost effective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Traditional power architectures cannot,...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
SSDs require different methods of sanitization compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) due to their inherent design differences. Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) help resolve this problem. These types of storage devices automatically encrypt data without any user interaction and can provide an effective method of...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Macro-scale energy harvesting technologies in the form of windmills, watermills and passive solar power systems have been around for centuries. Now, as designers seek to cut the cords, they turn to microenergy harvesting systems that can scavenge milliwatts from solar, vibrational, thermal and biological sources.
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Published: Jul 23, 2018
Every type of electronic equipment – from PCs, servers and network equipment, to home theaters, computer peripherals and mobile devices – is vulnerable to damage caused by power surges and line noise interference. With a relatively modest investment, surge protectors offer a highly effective way to protect...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
This paper describes a new two-phase cooling heat transfer cell based on a submerged vibration-induced bubble ejection process in which small vapor bubbles attached to a solid surface are dislodged and propelled into the cooler bulk liquid. This ejection technique involves forcibly removing the attached vapor bubbles with...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Every microprocessor or DSP requires a reset generator circuit or IC to perform two functions: (1) start up from a fixed condition after the supplies are turned on, and (2) prevent the processor from executing instructions incorrectly and causing flash memory corruption when their power supplies are lower than the specified...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
In less than a decade, tens of billions of electronic devices will be connected to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), a vast infrastructure of smart products that represent tens of thousands of different applications. Each of us will typically interact with hundreds of devices every day in order to control and monitor systems...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The need to respond to changing market standards in a compressed time to market window has led to the widespread use of programmable logic devices (PLDs) in a broad range of consumer applications. While development of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and application specific standard parts (ASSPs) requires...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
It is projected that 100 billion new “uniquely identifiable objects” will be connected to the Internet by 2020 (source IEEE Computing). That’s only 8 years from the time of this writing for what is being called the Internet of Things to massively overtake the Internet as we know it today.
Whether...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Trimming potentiometers or “trimmers” are mechanically adjustable resistors utilized in electronic circuits to balance out component tolerances, and to adjust the behavior of the circuit. Bourns now offers a trimmer that can be adjusted to a more precise linear output and lower Contact Resistance Variation...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
