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1. A new calculation for designing multilayer planar spiral inductors
(Articles/Analog Design)

A new calculation for designing multilayer planar spiral inductors "Planar spiral inductors are less expensive than either chip or coil inductors for PCB (printed-circuit-board)-based designs. Accuracy ...

2. DC-voltage doubler reaches 96% power efficiency
(Power/DC-DC)

DC-voltage doubler reaches 96% power efficiency Design Idea, ADG888, AD8617 "The voltage-doubler circuit in Figure 1 can convert 2.5V dc to 5V dc or 1.8V to 3.3V. Most voltage doublers use an inductor, ...

3. A Taxonomy of Load Signatures for Single-Phase Electric Appliances
(Articles/Research)

... office and domestic electric appliances is proposed. This research study indicates that the front-end power electronic circuits and the mechanical characteristics of some electromechanical loads play critical ...

4. Birth of a world beater
(Manufacturers/ARM)

... open some champagne to celebrate. Then Furber connected a multimeter and the power pin read zero. It turned out that a track on the circuit board had broken and the processor had been running on power ...

5. Galvanic Isolation Strengthens I2C Communications
(Peripherals/I2C)

... Circuit (I2C) bus standard developed by Philips. Like Motorola's Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and National Semiconductor's Microwire, these common synchronous data-communication interfaces connect ...

6. The Digital Isolator, a new member of the signal chain family
(Articles/Digital Design)

... galvanic isolation into almost any electronic circuit design. The two main reasons for using galvanic isolation are: increased safety, which basically aims to prevent potential damage to equipment ...

7. Managing the power in wireless sensor networks powered by energy-harvesting circuitry
(Articles/Sensors)

Managing the power in wireless sensor networks powered by energy-harvesting circuitry "Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming ubiquitous. They solve problems in many applications. In building control, ...

8. PRESS START TO BEGIN - Home-Made 32-bit ARM Game Console
(Boards/ARM7)

PRESS START TO BEGIN - Home-Made 32-bit ARM Game Console   "The Hardware The GameSphere consists of three hand-built circuit boards: a CPU board, a video board, and a human interface controller board. ...

9. "Golden Gloves" A/D Converter Match: Successive-approximation register vs. sigma-delta topology
(Articles/Interface)

... LinearityQuantization Error Which will walk away with the title? Will it be the SAR ADC with its excess baggage (sampling and hold circuit), speed and indecision, or the light weight ΣΔ ADC with its ...

10. TMPM380 - ARM-based MCU adds functionality and precision for industrial/white goods apps
(Families/TMPM380)

TMPM380 - ARM-based MCU adds functionality and precision for industrial/white goods apps TX03 family  "Toshiba's TMPM380 is low cost 32-bit MCU for analog circuit control The 32-bit ...

11. Microsensors without microfabrication
(Articles/Sensors)

... Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) have now built a motion sensor that consists of a tiny metal bead suspended in what the center's director, Neil Gershenfeld, describes as "a hole drilled in a circuit board." ...

12. AN57821- Circuit Board Layout Considerations for PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5®
(Families/PSoC5)

AN57821- Circuit Board Layout Considerations for PSoC® 3 and PSoC®5 "Until recently, most ADCs available in microcontrollers were restricted to 8 to 12 bits. Product families such as the PSoC® 3 and ...

13. TMPM395FWXBG
(Families/TMPM390)

... signal preprocessor : 2 channels Power-on reset circuit RTC : 1 channel Voltage detection circuit  Product  web page link Data sheet PDF Document link  ...

14. Plastic fantastic process for all-plastic transistors printed with ink-jet
(Articles/Research)

... for ink-jet printing," said Loo. "By post-processing a circuit after ink-jet printing, we can now recover the lost conductivity—making these organic materials a good substitute for the ITO used in solar ...

15. STM32F100xx value line Flash programming
(Families/STM32F)

... specified. The STM32F100xx embedded Flash memory can be programmed using in-circuit programming or in-application programming. The in-circuit programming (ICP) method is used to update the entire ...

16. Understanding and Using the I 2 C Bus
(Articles/Interface)

... link between integrated circuits." Web page link  ...

17. Introduction to I2C
(Articles/Interface)

"Introduction to I2C" "An Inter-IC bus is often used to communicate across circuit-board distances. Here's a primer on the protocol."   Web page link  ...

18. A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC for Insect Motion Control
(Articles/Wireless)

... pulsed ultra-wideband receiver system-on-chip with an integrated 4-channel pulse-width modulation stimulator mounted on a 1.5 cm by 2.6 cm printed circuit board. The highly duty cycled, energy detection ...

19. An Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Interface Circuit Using a Bias-Flip Rectifier and Shared Inductor
(Power/Energy Harvesting)

"An Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Interface Circuit Using a Bias-Flip Rectifier and Shared Inductor" Published January 2010 Abstract "Harvesting ambient vibration energy through piezoelectric ...

20. Texas Instruments DESIGNStellaris 2010 contest
(Families/LM3S)

Texas Instruments DESIGNStellaris 2010 contest Free EKK-LM3S9B96 Evaluation Kit request web page CircuitCellar contest web page link Luminary contest web page link  ...