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2. Interview Bites: Metro Ethernet Forum's Nan Chen on Carrier Ethernet
(MyBlog/TB-Articles)

... may be multiple carriers. Using this as an analogy, Carrier Ethernet is at a stage where when you pick up a phone, you can only call Verizon customers, or Comcast customers. TechBites: How do you define ...

3. Switched-Capacitor Sinewave Generator – Sine of the times
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

... are replaced by on-chip capacitors and clocked switches as shown in Fig.2. When the analogue switch is in position ‘a’ the input capacitor charges to the input voltage. When the switch changes to position ...

4. Blackfin FMC board runs Microsoft .NET Micro Framework
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

Avnet has announced the BF518F FMC Development Kit, the first Blackfin-based development platform running Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. This VITA57-compatible platform features Analog Devices'  Blackfin BF518 processor, ...

5. An Introduction to Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
(MyBlog/TB-Articles)

... and machine vision." Traditional analog radios are fixed in capability. Since all of their functionality is hard-wired into the radio, there is little ability to upgrade. Many modern radios add proprietary ...

6. Headphone Amplifier – Pushbutton Control
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

... 10k pot. The DS1666 was chosen because it has a simple control interface, and also because it has a VBIAS pin (12) that can be held at a negative voltage so that analogue signals of either polarity can ...

7. S2C offers a very cool SoC prototyping solution
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... of pencil-drawn schematics; performing timing analysis by hand; trying to decode the results from analog simulation where said results were printed out on reams of zig-zag computer paper; and .. the list ...

8. Do NOT Over-Engineer Things!
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

...  Suffice it to say that I'm building it in a Steampunk Style, which involves a lot of polished brass and antique black analog switches and meters and suchlike. It will look a little like the example shown ...

9. Hurray – ESC India 2010 here I come!
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... with via their device driver code. Amongst many other topics, I'm going to waffle on about stuff like analog versus digital (including A/D and D/A conversion); real-world sensors (optical encoders, accelerometers, ...

10. Thumbs-Up for Virtuoso IC6.1.4 Analog/Mixed-Signal Chip Design S/W
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The folks at Cadence are jumping up and down with excitement about the release of their Virtuoso IC6.1.4 release. This version of Cadence's high-end analog and mixed-signal chip design platform is replete ...

11. Switch Mode Regulators – Saves Batteries
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

... The circuit is generally not recommended for sensitive analogue circuitry as it does have a small amount of ripple on the output. The circuit is straightforward to build. The inductor current rating should ...

12. New dev platform for Cypress PSoC 5 with ARM Cortex-M3
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... System-on-Chip) family of devices which boast a mix of programmable analog, programmable digital, and an ARM Cortex-M3 Processor. The guys and gals ay Cypress unveiled two new design kits, a new version ...

13. Opal Kelly Challenge: Design an FPGA-based logic analyzer in a day!
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... mini-platforms for data capture, emulation, and testing.  Klaus Zietlow is a one-stop shop for electronics design (analog, digital, and mixed signal) and has worked on everything from high-speed, high-precision ...

14. ADI slashes SHARC cost and power, keeps the good stuff
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Analog Device’s latest SHARC DSPs combine big performance and on-chip memory with small prices and power numbers.  This unique combination makes the new ADSP-2148x and ADSP-2147x DSPs a compelling choice ...

15. Tanner, the Honda of EDA companies
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

My colleague Max recently wrote about Tanner’s activities in the analog EDA space.  This is going to be an interesting company to watch, IMO.   I recently met with John Zuk, the company’s head of marketing, ...

16. Wind Speed Monitor – How Discretely Bloweth the Wind?
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

... of a decimal divider, IC7, driven by a 10Hz clock, IC14d (Fig.4). During the period of count 0 to 1, OR gate IC6b closes analogue switch IC2a and connects the first receiver, RX1 and TR1, through IC1a ...

17. Cypress enhances analog/digital embedded design platform
(MyBlog/TB-Reviews)

... by the PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment. The latter introduces a schematic-based design capture along with analog and digital peripherals customizable through user-intuitive wizards and ...

18. Opal Kelly Expert #3: Design an FPGA-based logic analyzer in a day!
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... used to implement his FPGA-based logic analyzer. Klaus is pretty much a "one-stop shop" for any form of electronics design, including analog, digital, and mixed-signal. He has worked on everything from ...

19. HSPA, EVDO, WiMax & then LTE but what about the mobile backhaul?
(MyBlog/TB-Articles)

... wireless broadband traffic but what bout the evolution of backhaul?? Is it ready? or is it going to be a major bottleneck analogous to the traffic jams seen if only one lane was operating out of a four ...

20. Hunting a Wild Engineer
(MyBlog/TB-Blog)

... going to be a bunch of engineers there. Let's say you were informed to expect an analog circuit designer, a PCB layout designer, an RF engineer, a DSP architect, an embedded software developer, and so ...