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2. uC/OS-III The Real-Time Kernel
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... that are not found in other real-time kernels, such as the ability to complete performance measurements at run-time, to directly signal or send messages to tasks, to achieve pending on multiple kernel ...

3. White Noise Generator – Sound Check
(MyBlog/TB-Tech-Tips)

... in the v.h.f. region. Also, the high output could prove useful in driving passive r.f. bridges for measurement of circuit impedance or antenna characteristics. Using a BC549 is not critical and other ...

4. Blackfin FMC board runs Microsoft .NET Micro Framework
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... HMI Smart energy management Network-enabled instrumentation Test and measurement  ...

5. Xilinx 7 Series 28nm FPGAs – "Super Family" with three branches
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... as the logic density, performance, and I/O bandwidth required for next generation test and measurement equipment. The Virtex-7 family will include “XT” extended capability devices with as many as 80 transceivers ...

6. Hunting a Wild Engineer
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... Industrial Control Engineer, Network Designer, PCB Layout Designer, Power Management Engineer, RF Designer, RTOS Developer, System Architect, Test and Measurement Engineer, Verification Expert, Video and ...

7. Tektronix launches online community for oscilloscope users (free scope)
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... visiting a scope guru, I wonder ... and will beer be served?). But we digress... the folks at Tektronix say that if we visit Scope Central we can interact with our peers who are confronting the same measurement ...

8. Book Review: Modeling the Bipolar Transistor
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Why reprint a book that is over 30 years old and out-of-print; that deals with 20-to-40-year-old bipolar transistor models when newer models are now available; and that presents measurement techniques ...

9. FPGA Cluster Speeds Financial Derivative Risk Analysis
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... and volatility. These risky instruments and the associated uncertainties in the current financial environment create a greater need for risk measurement, using risk-adjusted return methods. Asset pricing ...

10. Freescale’s Power Meter Controller Addresses Next-Gen Smart Grid Applications.
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... All ADC channels sport a four-channel mux, enabling a single converter to handle current measurements for all three phases with some capacity left over for housekeeping functions. Freescale says the converters ...

11. Airbag sensors transition from discrete mechanical to MEMS commodities: Pt. 2--MEMS overview
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... of such an ECU will increase; hence there will be a significant potential for savings if integration continues. Sensors could come in IMUs (inertial measurement units), also called clusters, and no longer ...

12. Need a handy low-cost benchtop supply? Use an old PC ATX PSU!
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... and fairly well regulated, and most users (like me) can plug in their multi-meter and get a more accurate measurement anyway.   The switching circuit is a simple latch based on a two inverters from a ...

13. Gray Codes (Part 1)
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... precision of the measurement depends on the number of bits (circles). A 4-bit value representing 16 unique states allows the shaft's angle to be resolved to 22.5°, while a 10-bit value representing 1,024 ...

14. Agilent Technologies’ Stereo Viewer Brings James Clerk Maxwell’s Famous Equations to Life
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Sometimes you read something and you just think – Wow. Got to see that! This was one of them and I was strongly hoping for some images that might make me rethink the ways in which other things are displayed. ...

15. Free boundary scan connection checker
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... boundary-scan pin.  Buzz also gives hardware design engineers a practical way to check continuity between two pins on a prototype board, mimicking the familiar DMM buzz measurement but without probes.  ...

16. Mega-Cool Low-Cost CMOS Image Sensor Tester from Jova Solutions
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... The ISL-3200 is a CMOS image sensor test and measurement system, which, for as little as $9,995, provides the integrated hardware and software required for testing a wide variety of image sensor devices ...

17. 3D people-counting ASIC prototyped using HLS and FPGAs
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... measurement of heights for the distinction to be made between children and adults. "About half of the Impulse C to FPGA users are developing video and image processing applications with our tool set" ...

18. New reference hits all the bases: high accuracy and low drift, current, & dropout
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Precision voltage references form the basis for numerous measurement, data acquisition, and control circuits: the meter stick to which a data converter can play vernier. But as is the case with the data ...

19. More about International Rectifier’s new high-side switches for automotive applications
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... because, such current monitoring functions (high-side drive, ground-referenced measurement) must operate a scaled pair of transistors in a matched electrical environment despite the disparity in their ...

20. Test Equipment Review – Rapid Electronics 5 in 1 Multi-Tester
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... a basic multi-meter, it has common measurement functions: Resistance ranges:    • 200 ohm (also has an audible alarm that sounds if the resistance being measured is less than around 100 ohms.)    • 2000 ...