Powering Embedded Systems

August 2017

100W, Encapsulated DC-DC Converters Designed for RIA12 Railway Applications

ABSOPULSE Electronics has recently added the PDR 100R-P99 series to its line of fully encapsulated RIA12 DC-DC converters for railway applications. With an input voltage surge withstand capacity 3.5 times the nominal input voltage for 20ms, the converters meet RIA12 requirements for protection of traction and ro

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08/25/2017

Mouser Now Shipping Maxim’s MAX32625MBED Mbed-Enabled Development Platform

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is now stocking the MAX32625MBED Arm Mbed-enabled development platform from Maxim Integrated.The MAX32625MBED board provides a complete, functional system for developing and debugging a variety of low-power embedded systems, such as sensor hubs, connected sports devices, wearable medical pa

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08/24/2017

Development Board Offers Maker-Focused Processor-Plus-FPGA Performance

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is now stocking the Arty Z7 development board from Digilent. The Arty Z7 helps designers build a range of motor control and embedded vision systems on a ready-to-use development platform with Arduino Uno- and Digilent chipKIT-compatible headers, Digilent Pmod connectors, and USB and HD

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08/23/2017

Noise Sensitive Applications Want Ultralow Noise LDO Regulators

Amit P. Patel, Senior Design Engineer, Power Products & Steve Knoth, Senior Product Marketing Engineer – Power Products, Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Regulators are integrated circuits that step a voltage down from a higher voltage to a lower voltage without the need of an inductor. The low dropout linear regulator (LDO) is a special type of linear regulator in which the dropout voltage – the differential between the input-to-output voltages needed to

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08/21/2017

Kevin Parmenter, PSD Contributor

Power Systems Design (PSD) Hosted & Moderated a PCIM Europe Podium Session - A Special Report

Opening Statements by Panel Moderator: Kevin Parmenter, PSD Contributor It was my distinct pleasure to chair a podium session at PCIM in Nuremburg Germany in May. The subject of the session was enabling next generation power and the panelists were from the AMP, or Architects of Modern Power, organization. The

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08/11/2017

Figure 1. Power rail voltages and tolerances required by ICs continue to decrease. These dynamics challenge traditional oscilloscope measurement approaches as the noise of the scope and probe system impairs the ability to make accurate measurements of small signals.

Precise Power Integrity Measurements

Joel Woodward, Strategic Oscilloscope Planner at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich

Development teams face increasing power integrity challenges. FPGAs, ASICs, and standard components semiconductor devices continue to increase in gate count. Each of the millions of gates on an integrated circuit requires current to switch. As devices can consume tens of amps and total power must be managed, DC

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08/09/2017

Figure 1. Extending the frequency and voltage range of a probe requires a front-end network of resistors and capacitors.

Probing Tips for High-Performance, Low-Power Circuits

Andy Heltborg, Tektronix

Low-power circuits combine high speed and low-power consumption in a single component, presenting a number of probing and testing challenges. Since many low-power devices are also high-speed systems, there is a need to test and verify their performance. Testing the low-power components for compliance with industry st

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08/09/2017

Accurate Power Measurement: The Key to Energy Efficiency

Anoop Gangadharan, Yokogawa

In response to pressures to optimise energy efficiency throughout industry, a number of trends are emerging across the power landscape: · In the automotive sector, we are seeing increased electrification of the power train and the growing adoption of hybrid, electric, plug-in and fuel-cell based transportation

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08/09/2017