Beside the common advantages of a flyback converter, it has inherently parasitic components, which typically produce ringing waveforms with considerably high voltage spikes. This ringing can also influence the EMI emissions adversely. Therefore, it is an important task to adequate suppress and damp the ringing effect....
Published: Jul 01, 2021
As more and more devices are added to the plant floor, secure and reliable signal connections are of absolute importance. Devices today must handle a wide variety of functions and include features that will ensure cost-efficiency, reliability, and safe operation. Based on customer comments and surveys, this article identifies...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
As energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important in the electronics industry, many efforts are made to reduce power consumption in standby mode, the most effective being, evidently, safe disconnection by means of a mechanical switch.
Reliable disconnection from the power supply must take place directly at the...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
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...
Published: Sep 03, 2020
Like its predecessor, the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI Express is becoming a ubiquitous system interface. Unlike PCI, PCI Express adopts a Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) interface to provide users with the scalability required for future applications. As system bandwidths increase, more applications are...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The reed switch magnetic contact serves as the first line of defense in the vast majority of all security systems. Its sole function is to detect unauthorised access through doors and windows. Despite its widespread acceptance, a vulnerability in the way a reed switch magnetic contacts operates may allow an intruder to...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
This document provides a brief introduction to OpenNSL and provides summary information about how to build OpenNSL-ready network switching platforms and network switching applications that run on top of OpenNSL. It also provides insights into the benefits of using OpenNSL.
Networking is evolving from closed systems—where...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
Lattice Semiconductor has introduced two low cost FPGA families with SERDES, the LatticeECP2M, introduced in 2007, and the most recent family, the LatticeECP3. The ECP2M and ECP3 FPGAs provide designers with the best of both worlds: a high performance, low-cost FPGA fabric with built-in high performance SERDES.
These...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
This paper will examine the key packaging challenges in the fabrication of a 1000x1000 OXC, using MOEMS (micro-optical-electromechanical-systems) mirrors in 2N configurations.
It will describe how wafer-scale-integration (WSI) allowed for much greater simplification of the overall system and creation of the first...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Every electronic system needs a timing device. And crystal (XTAL) resonators are often the go-to solution. However, oscillators, which pair a resonator with an oscillator IC into one complete integrated timing device, offer several benefits compared to XTALs. These benefits are further extended with MEMS timing technology....
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Developing and producing electronics housing takes time and costs money, so many companies have stopped producing these housings in-house. Instead, they draw on professional system solutions created by experienced partners.
As device manufacturers reduce their vertical manufacturing range, they must work closely together...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
The use of LED lighting has gained widespread popularity in recent years due to its energy conserving properties and its ability to maintain a long lifecycle. Therefore, the components used in LED lighting must also be able to endure long periods of use.
Due to this demand for longer-lasting aluminum electrolytic...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Like every component, the fabrication technology used in resistor manufacture has changed over time and resistive films have made a significant contribution in allowing the cost-effective mass production of devices that are increasingly miniaturized.
Yet the traditional wirewound resistor, despite a substantial...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
The size or power density of a power supply is a key criteria when selecting the optimum product for a given application. In applications where fans are not desirable due to noise or reliability concerns then efficiency becomes of primary concern. Power supply technology has evolved to a point where efficiencies in the...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
