With the increased adoption of the JESD204 interface in data converters, it has become necessary to devote more attention to the performance and optimization of the digital interface. The focus must not be only on the data converter performance. ...
Author: Dan Simion, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Maxim Integrated Products
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LED technology has advanced rapidly, with improved chip designs and materials facilitating the development of brighter, more energy-efficient, and longer-lasting light sources that can be used in a wide spectrum of applications. In spite ...
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The proliferation of inertial MEMS sensor content in cars is driving system designers to rethink the current stand-alone sensor architecture in favor of an inertial sensing cluster. Once the inertial information for all systems is available, added features will add little cost to the vehicle. While ...
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Systems applications such as telecommunications and data communications that employ fault tolerant power delivery architectures usually require "live (or hot) swap" capability for zero downtime. This article presents design considerations related to 48V distributed power architectures using hot swa...
