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
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
When it comes to Computer-on-Module (COM) solutions for embedded computing applications, selecting the right form factor and processor for the application can be a challenging task for design engineers. COM solutions provide a cost-effective computer building block: a COM is a development board featuring a computer processor,...
Published: Jul 20, 2021
The intention of this paper is to analyze the overhead of memory used, while employing a C compiler as opposed to Assembly for PICmicro® MCU projects. The example code and the numbers used in this paper are for a 14-bit opcode target processor. ROM location counts are given for 14-bit words. For estimation purposes,...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The shift from a physical to digital world has been enabled by the IoT with a promise to bring a better, smarter world to consumers.
A renewed focus has been placed on security, flexibility and managing costs associated with the IoT gateway. More and more organizations are turning to Linux embedded operating systems...
Published: Aug 02, 2018
This paper reviews the state of the art of electric drives technology in three specific areas (a) technical requirements of high−performance ac machines control, (b) most popular electrical machines and (c) control techniques. Key development trends including the dominance of ac adjustable speed drives in new applications,...
Published: Feb 21, 2019
Rail voltages are getting smaller, and tolerances are decreasing. As a result, making accurate power rail measurements has become much more difficult.
Industry dynamics are driving both a decrease in rail voltage values as well as tighter tolerances across a wide range of rails. Making an accurate ripple measurement...
Published: Jun 04, 2020
The purpose of coding data is to efficiently transport it through a particular medium. The medium may be circuit board traces, ribbon cable, twisted pair copper, copper coax, fibre optic or air. Each type of medium suffers from a group of impairments.
These impairments in the medium affect the ability to transport...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Flash memory is commonly used to store firmware in embedded systems. Occasionally, the firmware stored in the Flash memory in some systems is accidentally corrupted, preventing the system from booting up after power-on. Flash corruption is commonly associated with a software bug. However, it is also commonly understood...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Multi-hop mesh protocols, such as Zigbee® , are getting a lot of press for their ability to link together low data-rate Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. Zigbee, in particular, is targeting itself as the standard bearer for wireless, low-power meshing protocols. Many of the features of a Zigbee solution touch...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Vector Network Analysers (VNA) are gaining popularity in the Signal Integrity community as Time Domain Measurement and Analysis tools.
VNAs with 8 ports or more can provide significant decreases in test time by migrating from a 4-port measurement system to an 8-port measurement system. For tight tolerance DUTs...
Published: Sep 01, 2020
This application note is about creating your own battery model for the R&S®NGM200, beyond the standard models provided within the battery simulation option NGM-K106. The main purpose is to gradually discharge a battery or a rechargeable battery using the internal QuickArb function. The discharge of the battery...
Published: Apr 20, 2021
This webinar helps decision makers as well as design and test engineers understand the different risk categories and test concepts for wireless coexistence testing for products belonging to the smart home, smart city, medical, smart health and automotive domain.
We will be talking about how to classify connected products...
Published: Oct 20, 2020
This white paper discusses the affects that extended high temperatures have on SSDs. It discusses endurance and data retention characteristics of SSDs with two different types of NAND flash media – 2xnm SLC (Virtium PE class) and 1znm MLC used in standard (Virtium CE class) and iMLC (Virtium XE class) modes. ...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
