This application note provides an introduction to the DDR memory technology and explains common challenges, related to the specific nature of DDR data, command / address and control buses and describes the typical measurements to verify and debug DDR system designs.
The paper explains the recommended test points and...
Published: May 19, 2022
For reliable and efficient system verification and debug of DDR3/DDR4 memory designs, comprehensive compliance test and analysis tools are required. While measurement capability and usability are critical to speed up the verification and debug process, it is equally important to choose the right probing solution and use...
Published: May 19, 2022
Type-C interfaces bring dramatic benefits to consumers. However, in order to realize this potential designers must implement Type-C's Power Delivery (PD) protocol, detect cable orientation and switch high speed signals, as needed and, if desired, provide support for Vendor Defined Messaging (VDM).
This whitepaper...
Changes in power supply design are rarely revolutionary. Rather, they are evolutionary and dependent upon a host of component and manufacturing technologies that, for the most part, develop at a modest pace. Moore’s law simply doesn’t apply to power supply design; if it did, a 200 W switcher the size of a thumbnail...
Ever since the first watermills and windmills were used to generate electricity, energy harvesting has been an attractive source of energy with great potential. In recent years, energy harvesting technology has become more sophisticated and efficient, and energy storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and thin-film...
This in-depth white paper guides you through the choices and weighs key design considerations to help you pick the right transceiver. It reviews the most typical RS-485 ICs and explore the most common design considerations. Then it examines electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and compare the Human Body Model (HBM)...
Optical image stabilization (OIS) addresses the quality of images, and is an idea that has been around for at least 30 years. It has only recently made its way into the low-cost consumer camera market, and will soon be migrating to the higher end camera phones. This paper provides an overview of common design practices...
There can be few more critical applications for power supplies in electronic equipment than in the field of medical electronics. Medical equipment will often have lives dependent upon its reliable operation.
Power supplies must not only deliver the specified electrical performance but must also meet stringent specifications...
Designing a user friendly control panel can be a daunting task. As technology continues to advance, designers continue to include more and more options in their production lines.
As the functionality of these new products increase, engineers are forced to find new innovative ways to interface with the operator. To...
This webinar is intended for engineers and researchers who work on RF frontend designs and are facing energy efficiency challenges.
While most of the parameters such as output power and frequency are standardized it is still possible to improve the energy efficiency by selecting optimal semiconductor technology, and...
The goals of this technical brief are to introduce the three basic ways monitoring can help achieve savings. It will conclude with some insight on system scaling and a few applications where monitoring saved customers money – these application examples are real-world solutions implemented by Phoenix Contact customers....
Most often capacitor selection to the uniformed seems like a simple choice but the demands, challenges and expectations of modern electronics prove otherwise. As more electronic systems continue to be integrated into our automobiles, the need for capacitor technologies that deliver high reliability, long life, stable performance,...
This webinar is intended for engineers who work on power electronics design and test. We will be discussing the double-pulse test method, an extremely reliable verification method for converter designs, including switching losses, switching characteristics for all operating modes, and switching times and energies.
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Published: Dec 17, 2021
In a design of a modern switch-mode power supplies (SMPS), the designer has to ensure that the converter is operating in its specified values over all circumstances. For example, some of these tests to ensure proper performance are output voltage deviation test, load transient test, output voltage ripple, input voltage...
