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Tools for the Gifted
Networking engineers are some of the best and brightest among us. There are good reasons for this. Designing networking equipment is a demanding discipline, spanning…
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Why Use an 8-bit Core When 32 Bits Are Better?
You are designing a new product as an SoC and need some processing power – not a huge amount – and you have tight power…
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New Power Semiconductor Module from Vincotech Combines MNPC Topology with SiC Switches
January 19th 2012 – Efficiency is becoming increasingly important in power electronics. Many applications are driven by the initiatives for reduced energy consumption. The technology leaders…
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Looking Back on Five Years
During the Christmas break, I took time out from roasting an ox on the open fire, distributing presents to the assembled multitude of staff, chasing…
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The Valley of FPGA
Just about every electronic technology on the market today has alternatives. Between custom chips, ASSPs, pre-built modules, embedded processors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and a host of…
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A Memristor By Any Other Name?
Perhaps you’re new to the US and you’re investigating some recipes to make. You’ve resigned yourself to the fact that, here, things are measured more…
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Signals and Swats
You can almost imagine an I Love Lucy caper. Lucy and Ricky are trying to catch someone in the act of something nefarious. They dress…
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Sharp presents the new generation of 10W LED arrays
Hamburg , 12 January 2012 – The new product generation is based on the technical advances made in LED production, improving the efficiency by up to 47%.…