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Power Management
Power Tip #2: Taming a noisy power supply
Focus on the electrical and physical design of the error amp, reference amp, and ramp circuits to minimize problems.

Most Popular Design Articles

• Signal Chain Basics (Part 19): Exploring and understanding linear voltage regulators
• SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS: Operational Amplifier--The Basic Building Block
• SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS (Part 7): Op Amp Performance Specifications--Bias Current

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• A Trillion Lines of Code?
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Most Recent Courses

• Using Second and Third Generation Serial RapidIO® Devices to Improve 3G+ Baseband Processing
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• Fundamentals of FPGAs
  Technology course  45 min.
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  Product course  15 Minutes
• ESC SV-543- Understanding Sensorless Vector Control for Brushless DC Motors
  ESC Online Course  90 minutes

Most Popular Courses

• Fundamentals of Microcontrollers
  Technology course  75 min.
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  Technology course  1.5 hours

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New Product

• NI claims industry first USB-GPIB controller for Macs
• DC-DC converters support extremely high temperature applications

Under The Hood

• Teardown and repair reveals design choices in Dodge key fob
• Garmin Nuvi 205: Entry-level GPS in the great wide open

Reference Design

• Broadcom and Avago Technologies Announce Advanced Features and New Price Points to Drive Bluetooth® Laser Mouse Products
• Fujitsu developer kit for fingerprint identification

Technical Paper Library

Featured Technical Papers

• A USB Case Study: Accelerating Software Driver Development using Virtual Platforms
  Synopsys
• Advances in Silicon Technology Enables Replacement of Quartz-Based Oscillators
  Silicon Laboratories
• Distributing Power to Blade Servers
  Eaton
• Is Power Your Weakest Link in Data Center Flexibility?
  Eaton
• High-Speed Data Acquisition for Medical Imaging Utilizing SDR Technology
  GE Fanuc Embedded Systems
• Texas Instruments Designs Complex Application Engines Directly from ANSI C to Reduce Design Time
  Synfora
• A New Paradigm in Linux Debug
  MIPS Technologies

Top User-Rated Technical Papers

• First Steps with Embedded Systems
• CMOS Analogue Switches—Structure and Specifications
• USB to 6V 0.3A USB Charger
• The U.S. WiMAX 3.65 GHz Opportunity: The History of the Band and How WISPs Can Register for FCC Approval
• Low Drop-Out Linear Regulators

Upcoming Webinars

Upcoming Webinars

• Oct 07, 2008: 
  Fundamentals of measuring radar with today's swept and FFT based signal analyzers
  Agilent Technologies
• Oct 07, 2008: 
  Three classic pitfalls of embedded builds (and how to fix them)
  Electric Cloud
• Oct 08, 2008: 
  Ten Things You Should Know About MIMO
  Agilent Technologies
• Oct 09, 2008: 
  Controlling BLDCs with the Lowest Software Overhead
  Infineon
• Oct 14, 2008: 
  TDR, S-Parameters & Differential Measurements Webcast
  Agilent Technologies
• Oct 15, 2008: 
  Buying Time: Using Signal Integrity and Common Sense to Meet Timing Margins for High Speed Memory Interfaces
  Synopsys

New On-Demand Webinars

• Exploding Bandwidth? New Virtex-5 TXT FPGAs for High-Bandwidth Bridging
  Xilinx
• Using Multichannel DRAM Subsystems to Create Scalable Architectures for Video SoCs
  Sonics