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Teardown reveals Chevy Volt's electronic secrets
Rick DeMeis, Automotive Designline, May 10, 2012Beyond battery chemistry and electric propulsion and control, the Chevy Volt enhanced-range electric vehicle builds in flexibility, ruggedness, and diagnostics—with attention to quality construction. More -
Understand and characterize envelope-tracking power amplifiers
Gerard Wimpenny, Nujira Ltd, May 10, 2012In contrast to fixed-supply power amps, the performance of an envelope-tracking power amplifier is not self-contained and requires substantially more data to predict system performance. More -
Build a digital PLL with three ICs
Dave Allen, Dash Inc, Kansas City, KS, May 10, 2012A counter’s self-presetting feedback loop hunts for the center count. More -
Do new technologies ease small-scale product innovation?
Bill Schweber, Contributing Technical Editor, May 10, 2012PC-based simulation and tools, manufacturing setups, and production equipment mean that it is easier to develop lower-volume products. More -
Drive interfaces require trade-offs
Pallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor, May 10, 2012As the amount of data in networks continues to grow at an exponential rate, higher-performance storage at both the client side and the enterprise server is becoming a necessity. More -
Remote display technology lets users fully experience cloud content
Raj Pawate, Distinguished member, Technical Staff, Texas Instruments Incorporated, May 9, 2012The cloud can provide content almost anywhere, anytime. Often, however, the device where the content ends up is not ideal for viewing, sharing and experiencing it. Remote display technology provides an effective path around this dilemma. More -
Project e-smart, part 1: Students convert Smart car into an EV
Andreas Freuer, Omar Abu Mohareb, Michael Grimm and Hans-Christian Reuss, University of Stuttgart, May 9, 2012For a student project at the Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, a commercial compact car with combustion engine was converted to an electric vehicle. More -
OEM-ready wireless sensor site launches
Steve Taranovich, Senior Technical Editor, April 26, 2012Monnit Corporation has launched OEMSensors.com with a new line of OEM-ready wireless sensors, gateways and back-end monitoring software targeting broad lines of commercial, industrial and M2M applications. More -
Understanding the basics of setup and hold time
Deepak Behera, Karthik Rao C.G. and Deepak Mahajan, Freescale Semiconductor, April 19, 2012Setup and hold times are treated as intrinsic properties of an element. However, it is the very existence of setup and hold time that often confuses us. Here are the cause of setup and hold time within a sequential element (flip-flop) and a look at the operation of the flop. More -
EMI problems? Part three: strength of EMI-radiated signals
Bonnie Baker, Texas Instruments, April 19, 2012Now that we have identified EMI sources we are going to see what happens as the signals are radiated towards your boards. More
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Product fEEd
EDN's technical editors highlight notable new products including analog and digital ICs, power components, sensors, passives, boards and systems, software, and more.
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E-Switch KJD17 pushbutton switch: Heavy-duty series of switches offer safety protection
C&K Components RB-4G0124 and RB-231 switches: Rolling-ball tilt switches control safety
Knitter-Switch MMP/MMS 1263 switches: Switches feature automatic-return slider
AVX StaticGuard varistors: Automotive varistors have low leakage current
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Rick Nelson, editorial director of Test & Measurement World, comments on test, globalization, measurement, machine vision, economics, nanotechnology, the engineering profession, and more.
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