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)...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
With increasingly sophisticated Smartphones and mobile devices offering more features and un-tethered instant access to data, news and entertainment, consumers are spending more time using their devices. Users are demanding faster connectivity, multi-core Ghz+ application processors and HD resolution touch screens, while...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
As power levels for board components have risen, thermal engineers have been forced to design larger and more innovative heat sinks than ever before. Along with the thermal challenge has come the mechanical challenge of attracting these heat sinks to the components in a reliable fashion.
There are many traditional...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
HPC (High Performance Computing) processors and memory loads continue to increase power demands at lower voltages while performance density and total cost of ownership challenges increase.
Efficient HV (high voltage) AC or DC distribution and power conversion to the loads are essential to maximize datacenter...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Mammography is a diagnostic and screening procedure that uses X-rays to examine the human breast. A patient’s breast is placed on an imaging platform and compressed and imaged by a dedicated mammography unit. Two pictures are taken from both the left and right side (four in total) during the screening process. Recently,...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Devices that demand reductions in power consumption are increasing, such as cooling fans. If we looked at all process from fan production, usage in field, to scrapping the fan, the highest required energy comes from the power consumption during operation. In other words, reduction of the fan's power consumption is...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Every year, we waste enormous amounts of food – estimated at 1.6 billion tons annually according to Boston Consulting Group. There are many causes for these losses, but one significant problem is refrigeration failings: in the supply chain, in food production outlets, and in retail stores.
Advantech’s...
Published: Jul 20, 2021
With the digital expansion over the past few decades, new requirements for data centers to store, transmit, and manage data of all sorts are reaching a critical level.
In this article, GE power discusses the path to improving efficiency as it applies to AC-DC power supplies (AC-DC front ends) within server equipment....
Published: Jul 19, 2018
With the escalation in interest to the environment conservation, low power consumption products with low impact to environment are becoming the mainstream in various industries. For the electronic equipment industry utilizing many cooling fans, low power consumption is required for the cooling fan since low power consumption...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Almost every switched-mode power supply (SMPS) needs an EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) input filter to suppress any disturbances of the SMPS on the power lines. This requirement having an input filter in the design ensures that no negative effect will occur in other parts of the systems connected to the power lines....
Published: Nov 18, 2020
Heat Sinks are required to insure the proper operation and long term reliability of Solid State Relays because they provide a means to dissipate the power that is normally developed by the SSR into the surrounding ambient air and maintain a safe operating temperature.
This paper discusses “Why Heat Sinks...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Growing demand for faster access to larger volumes of data, coupled with emerging high-speed network standards and rapidly advancing technology, is having a profound impact on network infrastructure. As 40 Gb fiber becomes a standard option in data centers, the challenge of connecting 40 Gb equipment with existing 10 Gb...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Adding security to a device costs extra money, time, power consumption and makes everything worse. The only reason for adding security to a device is the need to improve marketing – security components help to sell more products. To participate in the evolution of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things and cloud technologies...
Published: Sep 21, 2020
Cooling fans consist of an aggregate of airfoils, i.e. blades positioned around a hub that is driven by an electric motor. Due to their airfoil nature, a pressure differential is required across the blades to create the required flow. Therefore, if this pressure differential is disturbed, fan will suffer performance degradation. ...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
