This in-depth white paper guides you through the choices and weighs key design considerations to help you pick the right transceiver. It reviews the most typical RS-485 ICs and explore the most common design considerations. Then it examines electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and compare the Human Body Model (HBM)...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
Every microprocessor or DSP requires a reset generator circuit or IC to perform two functions: (1) start up from a fixed condition after the supplies are turned on, and (2) prevent the processor from executing instructions incorrectly and causing flash memory corruption when their power supplies are lower than the specified...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
This paper introduces a new DC/DC power supply architecture, called “Yeaman Topology”. The main characteristic of this topology is to separate the output voltage regulation function from the bulk power conversion function, implementing two stages that share a common input, and have their outputs in series....
Published: Jul 25, 2018
MIPI D-PHY is a practical PHY for typical camera and display applications. It is designed to replace traditional parallel bus based on LVCMOS or LVDS. However, many processors and displays/cameras still use an RGB, CMOS, or MIPI Display Pixel Interface (DPI) as interface. A bridge is often required to connect a processor...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
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
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
The large variety of motor technologies and corresponding control schemes available today to the design engineer and the dramatic pressure to reduce development time in industrial projects have created the need for performant design tools which allow to realise, already at a level of preliminary simulation, the complete...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Digital power is one of the most important technologies for reducing power consumption and managing the growing power complexity in modern electronic systems.
This paper explores the many benefits for system designers working with digital power modules, and shows how digital power modules can simplify the design of...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Ever since the first watermills and windmills were used to generate electricity, energy harvesting has been an attractive source of energy with great potential. In recent years, energy harvesting technology has become more sophisticated and efficient, and energy storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and thin-film...
Published: Jul 23, 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
We are witnessing one of the greatest revolutions in all of human history – a revolution driven by artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.
AI has long been seen as ‘something of the future’, but it is now impacting our daily lives. This is happening within many areas,...
Published: Feb 13, 2020
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, costeffective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Vicor’s new Factorized...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Magnetic Hall effect sensors prevail in position sensing applications across a variety of markets. This is a result of the robust, versatile, cost effective and non-contact performance of Hall effect sensors. Growth in the use of these sensors has been steady for several decades. The expected annual revenue generated by...
Published: Nov 02, 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
