When it comes to testing, a lot of effort is spent selecting the “right” testing tool. However, often this effort is expended for a second-class goal. Certainly, you need a tool that works for you, your development environment, your project, and your process. However, what is paramount for good testing is not...
Published: Nov 25, 2020
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Infineon's AURIX™ microcontroller family is equipped with many safety features and functionalities. Hitex, an AURIX™ Preferred Design House provides a white paper where you can learn how these powerful...
Published: Nov 25, 2020
The pace of innovation has changed. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can no longer take years to introduce new products or update functionality in existing products. If your customers can’t get what they want, when they want it, they’re quick to go elsewhere.
OEMs in nearly every industry are becoming...
Published: Sep 25, 2020
In today’s data-driven, technology-dependent world, no organization – large or small – can afford the financial cost, customer frustration and business disruption caused by network downtime.
The good news is there are plenty of options for protecting your network. But with so many different...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
The most common gate oscillator in use today is by far the Pierce-Gate. Its popularity stems from the fact that the digital inverter, U1, is usually included in the microprocessor or ASIC the designer selects. In effect, the oscillator cell U1 is free!
This whitepaper will analyze how the Pierce-Gate oscillator functions...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Wireless medical devices are becoming increasingly more prevalent for remotely monitoring and logging vital signs to assist in the detection and treatment of diseases and medical anomalies. Wireless body sensors upload vitals via an internet hub or personal server such as the patient’s smart phone.
To continuously...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) has nearly eclipsed the splendor of “big data”—in fact, it’s enveloping big data into a much larger, more promising concept. And to prepare for IoT, companies in all sectors must build a connected device strategy that makes sense—from both a financial and logistical...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Standard industrial interfaces such as RS-485 and RS-232 are commonly used for unidirectional and bidirectional data transfer in a range of applications that encompass everything from medical monitoring to test and measurement equipment.
This paper presents the reasons for galvanic isolation in board designs that...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Medical diagnostics are a part of everyday life, whether going to the doctor for a routine physical and blood work or heading to the emergency room. Doctors rely on the results from medical analyzers to inform us of changes in our body or administer life-saving medicine. The accuracy and speed of the analysis is critical...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
As lead-free gains momentum, many engineers are striving to set-up wave solder and SMT processes that maintain production yields but also offer reliable assemblies. Much has been written on these topics in the past 5 years.
This article asks two fundamental questions of interest to the process engineer transitioning...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
As consumers demand smaller, faster computer systems, OEM design engineers race to create systems with compact, more powerful microprocessors and chipsets. However, these compressed designs provide engineers with a new enemy…heat.
In minutes, densely packaged microprocessors or compact electronic systems can...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Because today’s high-speed, high-density backplane and I/O interconnects are pushing speeds well beyond 10 Gbps, accurate simulation of such systems requires the inclusion of long bit patterns, jitter, equalization, and crosstalk. To include these criteria and increase simulation speed, digital designers are migrating...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Today, powered surgical hand tools are used in almost all surgical specialties: ENT, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Eye, and Plastics. Initially pneumatic powered, all tools have now migrated to electric energy. Electric instruments offer greater performances than pneumatic ones and allow better power control, lower noise level...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
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....
Published: Jul 17, 2018