When it comes to testing, a lot of effort is spent selecting the “right” testing tool. However, often this effort is expended for a second-class goal. Certainly, you need a tool that works for you, your development environment, your project, and your process. However, what is paramount for good testing is not...
Published: Nov 25, 2020
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Infineon's AURIX™ microcontroller family is equipped with many safety features and functionalities. Hitex, an AURIX™ Preferred Design House provides a white paper where you can learn how these powerful...
Published: Nov 25, 2020
To investigate the stability of a switched-mode power supply, a Bode plot created with an oscilloscope is ideal for checking the critical phase margin and gain margin values. The factors that determine how satisfactory the results from Bode plot measurements will be, need to taken into consideration as part of the preparation....
Published: Jun 04, 2020
Radar, satellite communications and 5G NR use AAS with phased array antennas for beamforming. Hybrid beamforming combines the flexibility of digital beamforming with the efficiency of analog beamforming.
Increasing integration enables compact and cost-efficient AAS. To achieve accurate, reliable and efficient beamforming,...
Published: Sep 03, 2020
The purpose of coding data is to efficiently transport it through a particular medium. The medium may be circuit board traces, ribbon cable, twisted pair copper, copper coax, fibre optic or air. Each type of medium suffers from a group of impairments.
These impairments in the medium affect the ability to transport...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
An integral part of modern RF/microwave circuit design is circuit simulation and evaluation in which scattering parameters (S-parameters) for each element of a system are utilized to predict the overall small signal performance as the elements are cascaded to form the entire system.
This paper describes...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
This paper provides an overview of controller hardware and firmware technology. Managing the interfaces to non-volatile memory such as NAND flash on one side and to a host system on the other, as well as translating the different protocols used on both sides, is a basic function of all controllers. Additionally, flash...
Published: May 19, 2020
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
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
In a design of a modern switch-mode power supplies (SMPS), the designer has to ensure that the converter is operating in its specified values over all circumstances. For example, some of these tests to ensure proper performance are output voltage deviation test, load transient test, output voltage ripple, input voltage...
Published: Sep 03, 2020
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
The LGA80D evaluation board allows the user to test and investigate the performance of the LGA80D non-isolated module. Within the kit there are the following items: The evaluation board equipped with 2 LGA80D modules , the Artesyn PMBus interface dongle, the PMBus to USB interface cables.
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Published: Jul 19, 2018
This paper will focus on the industrial use of public standard IEEE 802.11 technology while providing a broad comparison of different spread spectrum wireless technologies currently deployed in industrial automation applications.
Sometimes called Wi-Fi, WLAN, and Wireless Ethernet, devices based on IEEE 802.11 standards...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
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