Watch our new webinar and find out the basics of the wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) using wireless technologies from Bluetooth to 5G for industrial environments.
The webinar also offers information on important challenges of IIoT such as low and deterministic latency, as well as ways to master them....
Published: Mar 29, 2021
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
The design of AC/DC power supplies is inevitably evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. It develops largely as a result of gradual improvements in semiconductors and passive component technologies and materials. Invariably, power supply design objectives involve not only meeting basic input and output specifications...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
As consumers demand smaller, faster computer systems, OEM design engineers race to create systems with compact, more powerful microprocessors and chipsets. However, these compressed designs provide engineers with a new enemy…heat.
In minutes, densely packaged microprocessors or compact electronic systems can...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Designers for electronic products are challenged by requests for customized and differentiated complex products in short time frames. In this environment two factors become crucial: flexibility and simplicity. For many years ASICS or FPGAs allowed engineers to meet very specific product design requirements. However, the...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
When implementing technical protective measures (also referred to as “safeguards”) from the hierarchy of controls, as discussed in Part 3 of this series (The Risk Reduction Process Utilizing a Hierarchy of Controls), each risk reduction measure will be associated with a safety function or combination of safety...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
This paper describes a new two-phase cooling heat transfer cell based on a submerged vibration-induced bubble ejection process in which small vapor bubbles attached to a solid surface are dislodged and propelled into the cooler bulk liquid. This ejection technique involves forcibly removing the attached vapor bubbles with...
Published: Jul 20, 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
In the case of AC/DC power units, it is not dramatic technology breakthroughs that drive the trend, it is good engineering and the inventiveness to combine the best of a whole range of techniques and technologies that separate a really innovative power supply from an average one.
This article looks at AC/DC power...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
This white paper focuses on isolated digital interfaces conforming to RS-485, which continues to be the industry’s workhorse standard for data transmission. The paper provides an overview of RS-485’s common-mode voltage range (CMVR) definition, and explains how isolating a transceiver’s signal and...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
The drive to create Metadata processing server systems plus the parallel push for increased port density and triple-play (voice / video / internet) traffic handling in telecommunication systems places greater demands on power management architectures.
A new architecture is required to optimize processing real...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Advanced modeling techniques centric to motor and power stage dynamics can yield significant gains in motor control efficiency, assuring precise control that adapts to fluctuations in system behavior in real time.
Through the application of sensorless vector control, designers can enhance the performance and lower...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
While almost every power-supply engineer intimately knows and understands the lab setup for measuring efficiency, there are many important nuances that must be considered when measuring the efficiency of a device with ultralow quiescent current (IQ). For a device that consumes less than 1 µA, the circuit’s...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
PCI was originally designed as an interconnect for personal computers; because of the nature of PCs at that time, the protocol architects did not anticipate the need for multiprocessors. Therefore, they designed the system assuming that the host processor would enumerate the entire memory space. Obviously, if another processor...
Published: Jul 17, 2018