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Bidirectional ESD suppression diodes protect high-speed data lines

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AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of passive components and interconnect solutions, has released a new series of bidirectional ESD suppression diodes that combine the latest in transient voltage suppression (TVS) technology with miniature, leadless, and low profile 0201 and 0402 packaging designs to deliver cutting-edge ESD protection in high-speed data and communication circuits. […]

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FPGA-based mux delivers low 42-nsec latency

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LDA Technologies, an FPGA product design and manufacturing firm, announced the release of LDA NeoMux™, a new ultra-low-latency 10G muxing solution that achieves unprecedented 42ns wire-to-wire, thus cutting 40% off the latencies currently available on the market. NeoMux™ is created on LDA e4™ platform which in its turn furnishes the product with lowest Layer 1 […]

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What’s a Watch Dog Timer (WDT)?

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In the world of microcontrollers (MCUs), sometimes things go wrong. If a program goes haywire or into an infinite loop, it needs a way to check and see if things are still running. In “the old days,” the Windows operating system would occasionally crash (experience a fatal error) and put up what was called the […]

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Storage I/O controller products target serve storage applications

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Microsemi Corporation today announced the production release of a new generation of storage input/output (I/O) controller products, the SmartROC 3100 and SmartIOC 2100, powered by the company’s Unified Smart Storage Stack. With the release of this new Smart Storage Platform, Microsemi significantly enhances its server storage solution offerings for data center applications. “Our next generation […]

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SAR ADC boasts 0.5-ppm linearity, 148 dB dynamic range

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Analog Devices, Inc., which recently acquired Linear Technology Corporation, announces the LTC2500-32, an ultrahigh precision 32-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC).  The LTC2500-32 is a new and enabling approach for precision measurement applications, blending the high accuracy and speed of Linear Technology’s proprietary SAR ADC architecture with flexible integrated digital filters to optimize […]

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I/O carrier cards handle VPX, XMC, PCI Express duties

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Acromag expands their tech-refresh design of the AcroPack Series to include a superb selection of I/O carrier cards. The AcroPack carriers come equipped with up to four AcroPack or mini-PCIe mezzanine module slots to offer maximum I/O density in VPX, XMC and PCI Express based systems. AcroPack carriers offer a unique secure plug-in connection to […]

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SRAM compiler billed as having world’s smallest memory footprint

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Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announced the enhancement of its memory compiler IP offerings on both UMC 40eHV and 40LP processes. Based on UMC’s leading-edge 40nm bit cell and Faraday’s design optimization on the peripheral circuit, the newly-launched compilers are able to generate memory instances based on the world’s […]

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Top microcontroller threads on EDAboard.com — March

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(editor’s note: Intrigued by the problem? Have a similar challenge? Have a question or another solution? Then click the “Read more” link and follow the conversation on EDAboard.com or log in to EDAboard and participate in the microcontroller forum thread.) SCR bridge control – I am using a PIC18F4520 to control an SCR bridge. I […]

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Pardon the interruption: speeding up responsiveness

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Many of the abilities that modern digital electronics enable rely on the fact that common processors can perform millions or billions of operations every second. This blindingly fast speed can make it appear that a device is handling many operations at once when in fact, it is rapidly following a sequential set of instructions, often […]

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FAQ: overview of embedded systems

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An embedded system is much more than a computer, because they often must have a real time response and several constraints to work within a given system that is tailored by industry and function. Real-time operation requires a response to input within microseconds. Delays in responding, termed latency, are often unacceptable, especially in real-time systems. […]

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