Designers are implementing a wide variety of interface bridging solutions that allow them to transfer data across protocols and, in the process, expand system functionality. The challenge is determining how to most efficiently implement these new bridging solutions without violating system power, footprint and cost requirements....
Automotive electronics are now beginning to radically change the automobile in ways that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. Engine control and ABS systems based on electronic sub-systems are now standard features of most automobiles. Among the many new and emerging applications undergoing significant change,...
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers.
The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no easy way...
Published: Jan 01, 2021
Deciding what hardware to use for your embedded GUI application? From understanding performance and storage requirements to estimating memory needs, you'll be faced with quite a few important...
In this Best Practices Using Storyboard guide, our goal is to ensure your Storyboard application is created from the...
Published: May 13, 2021
Ultrawideband (UWB) is a radio technology operating in the unlicensed spectrum for near-field communications with low power consumption and low complexity at low cost.
UWB has existed for quite a long time and was mainly used for traditional radar imaging without a ratified communications standard for worldwide deployment...
Published: Nov 29, 2021
Macro-scale energy harvesting technologies in the form of windmills, watermills and passive solar power systems have been around for centuries. Now, as designers seek to cut the cords, they turn to microenergy harvesting systems that can scavenge milliwatts from solar, vibrational, thermal and biological sources.
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As advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) introduce
new technology into vehicles, they need adaptable, futureproof test systems. NI offers a single, software-defined platform approach to automotive test that can natively integrate all the I/O types you need to test today’s and tomorrow’s ADAS technology....
High-voltage power management ICs, such as TI’s LM5000 series of integrated controllers and regulators, can simplify the design of high-voltage power management solutions
This paper presents various application scenarios where high-voltage capability up to 100V is required and explains how high-voltage power...
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In all engineering domains, development is defined by a Design, Build, and Test (DBT) cycle. Each time a project goes through this cycle, ideas are validated, deficiencies are discovered, and solutions determined....
Published: Jan 11, 2022
Mutation testing checks the quality of your test cases. Automated mutation testing is the most important new functionality in the new main version V4.3 of TESSY, the tool for automated unit / module and integration testing of embedded software.
What is the purpose of such code mutations and how does mutation testing...
Published: Mar 02, 2021
Automotive EMI standards are developing quickly to address the impact of electric and hybrid vehicles on the electromagnetic environment. Recent changes in CISPR 25 & CISPR 36 and the ongoing revision of CISPR 12 as well as a demand to reduce test time and record the disturbance characteristic of the device under test...
Published: May 27, 2021
Continuing advances in robotics have made them clearly one of the most important pieces of the manufacturing tool box. Giving robots eyes can make them much more productive and they can perform more complex tasks. This paper will discuss how robot vision can make robot assembly smarter, faster, and more reliable-- and...
Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices using the complete system impractical. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently. During HIL test, the physical system that interfaces to an...
In this application, Riaz developed a custom solution consisting of a printed circuit board with a heat source and an EMI shield consisting of a metal plate that also serves as a heat spreader. The heat source is separated from the EMI shield by a layer of thermal interface material.
A heat sink is mounted to...
