Motor Control/Sensors
1394 cameras: Simple designs with high bandwidth, low latency, scalability
The author, vice chairman of the 1394 Trade Association, argues that 1394 Automotive Camera Systems provide features and functions required for automotive applications while maintaining competitive price performance.
Dynamic Power Dissipation Considerations for Solid State Relays
Understand the key attributes of this all-electronic switching component and how to take advantage of them
Controlling brushless dc motors in diverse applications
Brushless DC motors are well suited to meet the efficiency and performance requirements of today's household products and other motor applications. For sensorless control, on-chip arithmetic accelerators
enable fine-tuned performance without the expense of
an external DSP.
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Industrial Instrumentation
Getting disciplined about embedded software development: Part 2 - The Seven Step Plan
Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 2: The Seven Step Plan.
Oversampling with averaging to increase ADC resolution
How an MCU can extend the resolution/accuracy of an ADC by delivering an extra bit or two.
Point-of-Load: One for All
In this article we will examine a DC/DC controller in conjunction with the latest generation of NexFET power MOSFETs to address the higher efficiency aspect with additional functionality to increase the overall performance.
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Process Control
Picking the right system design methodology for your embedded apps: Part 2
In a three part tutorial, Wayne Wolf discusses why today's complex embedded designs require developers to use a formal or informal system design methodology and the features that are important in such tools. Part 2: Formal specifications & informal requirements.
Twelve Things You Didn't Know a Scope Could Do
The newer versions of this essential engineering tool can do more than you may realize
Getting disciplined about embedded software development: Part 1 - Any idiot can write code
Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 1: Any idiot can write code.
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Networking
Building better memory management for high performance wired/wireless networks: Part 2
The authors evaluate the performance of variable- versus fixed-size memory pools in tests implementing the two approaches for LTE and WiMAX protocol stacks
Building better memory management for high performance wired/wireless networks: Part 1
The authors describe a variable pool memory management scheme that has been implemented for LTE and WiMAX protocol stacks and has exhibited excellent performance, especially when compared to traditional fixed-pool implementations.
Getting disciplined about embedded software development: Part 3 - The value of postmortems
Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 3: The value of postmortems
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Robotics and Prototyping
Ensuring the thermal integrity of your IC package/PC board design
Some basic tests will verify your PCB/IC thermal modeling and reality
How to inexpensively design an ASIC in 5 weeks
What many engineers may not know, hence a key motivator for this paper, is that a new generation of ASIC, (dubbed the NEW ASIC), is gaining momentum as an alternative to both standard cell ASIC and FPGA design.
Comparing AMBA AHB to AXI Bus using System Modeling
This article discusses the construction of an Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB) Shared Bus and AMBA Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) point-to-point Bus.
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Industrial Control DesignLine's How-To Section delivers detailed engineering articles focused on the design and development of industrial control systems, factory automation equipment, sensors, motor control designs, industrial robots, industrial Ethernet networking systems, ZigBee systems, and industrial instrumentation. Design topics covered in this category include process control, sensor design, motor control design, radio frequency (RF) design, Ethernet networking, prototyping, robotics, and more.
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