The pace of innovation has changed. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can no longer take years to introduce new products or update functionality in existing products. If your customers can’t get what they want, when they want it, they’re quick to go elsewhere.
OEMs in nearly every industry are becoming...
Published: Sep 25, 2020
Obtaining safety certifications and pre-market approvals for safety-related systems is arduous, costly, and prone to failure. And yet such certifications and approvals are integral to the sale and market acceptance of software for a wide range of products.
Further, safe system design continues to evolve as embedded...
Published: Feb 04, 2021
XP Power offers advice on power supply design, which could help with your next design. Most electronics engineers can design an AC/DC power supply based on first principles but it’s through careful refinements in the design that real reliability and efficiency improvements appear.
In this whitepaper, XP Power...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Designers building power inductors for today’s highly volume mobile markets face a difficult dilemma. On the one hand the market demands higher performance systems with additional functionality running at higher current levels. On the other hand it pressures product designers to squeeze that additional functionality...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Advances in semiconductor technologies from efficient power semiconductors to advanced sensor systems, has lead to the development of intelligent and safe robots. The next evolution of robotics will lead us into era with more autonomous robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
This document exposes ideas on how to...
Published: Jul 16, 2018
As modern factory automation (including servo motors, industrial robots, and computer numerical control [CNC] machines) trends toward higher precision, power, speed, multi-axis, and multi-direction, the requirement for accurate sensing of motor phase current has become ever more demanding. Traditionally, current sensing...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
Over the years, a number of methods have been proposed to realize fractional-N frequency synthesis that are based on the basic concepts of traditional integer-N synthesis [1,5]. Among these methods, three techniques are best known in the industry: fractional divider-based, current injection-based, and ∆Σ modulator-based...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Because wireless systems are typically located out of doors and have components located on towers and tall buildings, they are especially susceptible to damage from lightning.
Therefore, it is important that a lightning protection system be designed and implemented at the same time the wireless system is being designed...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Wireless medical devices are becoming increasingly more prevalent for remotely monitoring and logging vital signs to assist in the detection and treatment of diseases and medical anomalies. Wireless body sensors upload vitals via an internet hub or personal server such as the patient’s smart phone.
To continuously...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Demand for more features and higher performance from ever-smaller form factors presents significant challenges for engineers developing applications such as DC-DC conversion, computing, industrial motor drives, and telecommunications. In many cases, for example, enhancing capabilities and functionality can lead to the...
Published: Feb 21, 2019
With increasingly sophisticated Smartphones and mobile devices offering more features and un-tethered instant access to data, news and entertainment, consumers are spending more time using their devices. Users are demanding faster connectivity, multi-core Ghz+ application processors and HD resolution touch screens, while...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Over the past few years, the technology of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory to the marketplace. In practice, however, it has been difficult to efficiently capture the ambient or "waste" energy generated by many practical devices suited for this purpose, due to their very low voltage and power...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
This White Paper discusses the common mistakes made in using power strips in healthcare applications and introduces a methodology to promote safety and compliance.
Moreover, this White Paper examines the most current codes and standards governing power strips in healthcare applications and the ways those codes and...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
The universal serial bus (USB) has become a dominant interface to fulfill the ever increasing needs for rapid data transfer between end devices such as PC to portable devices, infotainment systems, storage, GPS, etc because of its ability to plug and play. USB has effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces, such...
Published: Jul 20, 2018