EDN - December 15, 2008

Tales From The Cube: Input of 12 sequential 1s causes a data-collection system to output garbled data. This looks like a job for 12-gauge AWG wire.

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• When is a microcontroller an SOC?
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• Signs of optimism in economic crisis

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• Five- to 10-LED flashlight circuit runs at 3V
• Microcontroller measures resistance without an ADC

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• 6-GHz SERDES chip charts its own eye diagram
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• Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy