This white paper discusses the industry’s most commonly used interface standards, RS-232 and RS-485, reviews the functionality and features of a dual protocol transceiver, and discusses multi-protocol application examples, including the industrial PC.
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Published: Jul 17, 2018
Design and verification engineers will be learning the importance of ensuring a stable operation and of reducing the risk of failure after any change over the product’s lifetime. Both require a solid characterization of the memory interface.
We will be discussing test and tool requirements such as bandwidth,...
Published: Sep 17, 2020
How an improved decision flow can help power systems designers reduce materials and development costs and save design time while developing products better aligned with customers’ requirements.
For electronics product designs with a large (>100W) power requirement, the method for choosing a power supply...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Embedded systems security provides mechanisms to protect an embedded system from all types of malicious behaviour, including internal and external threats.
In this report, you’ll learn about embedded systems security, related security terms, software and physical security, and four qualities of embedded systems...
Published: Aug 27, 2020
A real-time operating system (RTOS) must be fast and responsive, schedule tasks and manage limited resources, and ensure functions are isolated and free of interference from other functions.
In this report, you’ll learn more about what is a real-time OS and the pros and cons of two types of RTOS architectures:...
Published: Aug 27, 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
Medical device designers have become increasingly interested in the Linux ® operating system (OS), largely because of its open source model. Linux lets the designer leverage a large pool of developers, a rich legacy of source code, and industry-standard POSIX APIs.
But Linux may not be the right choice for all...
Published: Aug 27, 2020
For embedded systems designers, selecting the optimal solid state drive (SSD) form factor has never been more difficult.
To make an informed decision, developers must evaluate if a particular SSD has the endurance and availability to meet their longer lifecycle demands, supports cost-effective and widely adopted...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Rohde & Schwarz launched with the R&S ESU the world's first commercial EMI test receiver capable of time domain scans. The EMI test receiver family R&S ESR does also support time domain scans and delivers even faster measurements.
Taking the R&S ESR EMI test receiver as an example, this paper examines...
Published: Sep 08, 2020
Designers are implementing a wide variety of interface bridging solutions that allow them to transfer data across protocols and, in the process, expand system functionality. The challenge is determining how to most efficiently implement these new bridging solutions without violating system power, footprint and cost requirements....
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Ever since the first watermills and windmills were used to generate electricity, energy harvesting has been an attractive source of energy with great potential. In recent years, energy harvesting technology has become more sophisticated and efficient, and energy storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and thin-film...
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
New market segments are increasingly driving competing FPGA vendors to incorporate a wider variety of functionality and flexibility within their devices. Embedded digital signal processing (DSP) is one such function.
Lattice Semiconductor has continued its tradition of providing high performance DSP capabilities...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Whether they be CPUs, micromicroprocessors or microcontrollers, microprocessors are an indispensable component in modern electronic system design. However, using mid-range microprocessors can cause some problems.
These challenges can easily be overcome with the use of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays),...
Published: Jul 19, 2018