Hugo Letourneau, Future Electronics True audiophile electronic designers have always dreamed of designing the best amplifier perfectly reproducing the recorded soundstage. They may have started to dream about it when they learned in their first ...
09-01-2012
David Coode, ON Semiconductor In order to save cost and time, face-to-face meetings and conversations in both our business and personal lives are less frequent than they used to be. Mobile phones and voice over internet technology (VoIP) have been ...
30-12-2011
Richard Comerford Examining one category ambient-light sensing represented by one of last January’s Product of the Year award winners, demonstrates how quickly some technology fields can alter course. Right after the awards were chosen, ...
28-12-2011
Nancy W. Stauffer, MITEI No sunshine required A novel MIT technology is now making possible remarkably efficient photovoltaic (PV) systems that can be powered by the sun, a hydrocarbon fuel, a decaying radioisotope, or any other source of heat. The ...
26-12-2011
LED lighting has become increasingly popular within both businesses and homes, and there are many reasons why LED bulbs can be seen as preferable over traditional bulbs, including filaments, halogen bulbs and the new, low energy compact fluorescent ...
21-12-2011
Harvest Energy from a Single Photovoltaic Cell. Part 1 Nathan Bourgoine, Linear Technology CHOOSING THE MAXIMUM POWER POINT CONTROL VOLTAGE Figure 4 shows a model of the maximum power point control mechanism used by the LTC3105. Figure 3 shows the ...
12-12-2011
Nathan Bourgoine, Linear Technology To simplify the distribution of wireless communications for instrumentation, monitoring and control applications, power supply designers strive for device grid-independence. Batteries, the immediately obvious ...
12-12-2011
Jeffrey Bausch Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and electroluminescence have been around for more than a century. Henry Round, a British experimenter with Marconi Labs, first noted the emission of light in 1907 while using a crystal of silicon carbide ...
08-12-2011
Mul tiple, on-chip, production-ready, industrial Ethernet and fieldbus communication protocols eliminate the need for an external ASIC/FPGA and save 30 percent on BOM costs One scalable, low-power ARM Cortex-A8 processor platform (275 MHz to 720 ...
30-11-2011
By Harvey Weinberg Analog Dialogue Volume 43 Number 2 As applications engineers supporting ADI’s compact, low-cost, gravity-sensitive iMEMS® accelerometers, we get to hear lots of creative ideas about how to employ accelerometers in ...
21-11-2011
With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access to an electrical outlet. ...
12-11-2011
Stephanie Overhoff, Maxim Integrated Products Today’s communication systems like wireless base stations make strong demands on receiver sensitivity and large- signal performance. This article focuses on mixers, and describes key mixer ...
02-11-2011
Resettable Circuit Protection for High-Rate-Discharge Li-ion Battery Applications The rapidly expanding market for high-rate-discharge lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries used in applications such as cordless power tools, e-bikes and back-up power ...
27-10-2011
By Armando Roggio, Electronic Products Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rightly have a reputation for endurance, durability, and excellent energy efficiency, but even now, as LEDs are becoming more popular as a general lighting solution, engineers and ...
24-10-2011
Careful device selection and good thermal design practices can help optimize the performance of highly miniaturized dc-dc converters intended for mobile applications. User demands for high functionality in miniaturized devices such as mobile ...
20-10-2011
Window contacts tell us which of a house’s windows are open or closed. Researchers have now developed a fail-safe system that is particularly easy to use and needs no wiring or batteries. The sensors harvest the energy they need to run from ...
11-10-2011
Telecontrolli , Italy Introduction In Low Power Wireless Systems, good Antenna design is required to realize good range performance. Without an antenna it is impossible to transmit data over a long distance range. Undeniably, of all the elements in ...
10-10-2011
Universal input (90VAC to 265VAC) lets the MAX16841 LED dimmer operate with international dimmer models, which saves design time and costs. Maxim has announced the MAX16841 , an offline LED driver that provides flicker-free dimming from maximum ...
09-10-2011
Hercules safety microcontrollers are based on TI ’s 20+ years of safety-critical system expertise, industry collaboration and proven hardware for the automotive market. The platform consists of three ARM Cortex-based microcontroller families ...
19-09-2011
Key features of the RL78/F12 MCUs: The new RL78/F12 MCUs from Renesas Electronics include functions that support internal Flash memory with capacities from 8 to 64 kilobytes (KB); packages from 20 to 64 pins; and the LIN (Local Interconnect ...
06-09-2011
