There are currently two common approaches to PFC inrush current protection. Such protection caters only for the first instance of power application at the switching on of the AC power.
Faced with higher customer demand and expectations towards higher stability in power supply systems, a new concept is conceived that...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Vector Network Analysers (VNA) are gaining popularity in the Signal Integrity community as Time Domain Measurement and Analysis tools.
VNAs with 8 ports or more can provide significant decreases in test time by migrating from a 4-port measurement system to an 8-port measurement system. For tight tolerance DUTs...
Published: Sep 01, 2020
Digital power is one of the most important technologies for reducing power consumption and managing the growing power complexity in modern electronic systems.
This paper explores the many benefits for system designers working with digital power modules, and shows how digital power modules can simplify the design of...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers.The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no...
Published: Apr 01, 2021
Not a single day passes without major news of data breaches. Whether it is database theft or taking control of systems, with the internet of things, the threats become even higher. Ensuring that data is secure from unauthorized access during storage and during transfer is one of the main challenges of the connected world...
Published: May 20, 2020
With the recent rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), 14 billion devices are now connected. However, the growth of this is also significant, by 2020 it is predicted that over 50 billion devices will be connected. With these devices connected, systems are opened up for remote access and control. In turn, this has shown...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
This in-depth white paper guides you through the choices and weighs key design considerations to help you pick the right transceiver. It reviews the most typical RS-485 ICs and explore the most common design considerations. Then it examines electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and compare the Human Body Model (HBM)...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
CCS C Compilers for PIC® MCU and dsPIC® DSC V4.1xx
This whitepaper includes the ANSI compliance matrix and includes the sub sections enviornment and language. For each of the variables it is categorised whether there has been full compliance, compliance except for noted item or if it has not been implemented. ...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The only system that’s safe from cyberthreats is one that’s never powered on. While this is an overstatement meant to highlight the seriousness of security threats that surround things like our computers and phones, it’s something to be considered as threats to embedded systems evolve.
Today...
Published: Aug 27, 2020
Energy Harvesting (EH) is the process of electronically capturing and accumulating energy from a variety of energy sources deemed wasted or otherwise said to be unusable for any practical purpose. Energy harvesting, or energy scavenging as the process is sometimes referred to, is associated with capturing residual energy...
Published: Jul 18, 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
True or false: 30 dBm + 30 dBm = 60 dBm? Why does 1% work out to be -40 dB one time but then 0.1 dB or 0.05 dB the next time? These questions sometimes leave even experienced engineers scratching their heads. Decibels are found everywhere, including power levels, voltages, reflection coefficients, noise figures, field...
Published: Mar 22, 2021
Power system designers can now benefit from flexibility and the ability to customize electrical parameters by using configurable and programmable power supplies as well as fast and low-cost modifications of the electrical and mechanical properties of standard power supplies.
This white paper explains how, through...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Like its predecessor, the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI Express is becoming a ubiquitous system interface. Unlike PCI, PCI Express adopts a Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) interface to provide users with the scalability required for future applications. As system bandwidths increase, more applications are...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
