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Keep on truckin’ 10/22/2009

Tales From The Cube: Changing both the antenna and the transmitter didn't clear up this mysterious transmitter-shutdown problem. It turns out that antennas with the same part number were indeed different.

Designing an accessible board 10/8/2009

Design in access to verification and debugging during—not after—the development of a board-level product.

Lightning strikes sewage setup 9/17/2009

Tales From The Cube: Mysterious, random chip failures leave SCADA-system engineer wondering whether isolation from ground could be the cause.

Unreal-wheel deal 9/3/2009

Tales From The Cube: Do all those rules for signal propagation, high-speed-digital design, and line terminations really apply to cables more than a mile long? Tough lessons you learn in a real-life application prove that they actually do.

Finger on the trigger 8/20/2009

Tales From The Cube: Circuits are getting faster and more complicated. Fortunately, the tools we have are getting more powerful, too.

A breath of fresh air 7/9/2009

Tales From The Cube: Breathing on failed control boards shows that condensation can cause failure.

Weather or not: All signs point to “no” 6/25/2009

Tales From The Cube: When recycling old embedded code, the whole become less than the sum of the parts when you're up against a tradeshow deadline, of course.

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