For over three decades, power management efficiency and cost showed steady improvement as innovations in power MOSFET structures, technology, and circuit topologies paced the growing need for electrical power in our daily lives. In the new millennium, however, the rate of improvement slowed as the silicon power MOSFET...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Utilizing embedded microcontrollers for industrial applications requires special attention given the harsh and noisy environment. Going from a supply voltage as low as +1.5V or +3.3V to the +24V industrial world requires careful design decisions and dedicated solutions to achieve safe and reliable operation.
The following...
Published: Jan 21, 2019
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, cost effective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Vicor’s new Factorized...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
High-voltage power management ICs, such as TI’s LM5000 series of integrated controllers and regulators, can simplify the design of high-voltage power management solutions
This paper presents various application scenarios where high-voltage capability up to 100V is required and explains how high-voltage power...
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
Talon Communications is a Product Development Company specializing in low power wireless and embedded design. Talon designs your product using ultra-low power 8/16/32 bit micro-controllers, sensors and wireless communications.
Designing successful low power wireless products requires many specialized skills....
Published: Jul 18, 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
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
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
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
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
Improvements in AC/DC power supply design are evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. It’s easy to settle for tried-and-tested approaches because no one new design technique is likely to yield great benefits. The design challenge is to establish what small enhancements can be made in various parts of the design...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
When first introduced, logic product offerings consisted of quad, hex and octal standard logic gates, inverters and buffers. As integration and miniaturization occurred, the demand for logic solutions continued to grow, but shifted toward “control” or “glue” logic.
Control logic...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Viking Technology manufactures DRAM modules for OEMs in Enterprise, Telecommunications and Industrial markets. It offers Full DRAM technology portfolio from DDR4 to Legacy DDR1. Viking’s modules follow JEDEC standard and range from Standard Form Factors to the most comprehensive small form-factor and Specialty custom...
Published: Jul 17, 2018