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Product Development: Flex and Rigid-Flex PCBs

Rigid-flex circuits combine the best of both—rigid boards and flexible circuits—integrated together into one circuit. Reliability is important for electronic devices. Hence, a substantial number...

Clock Gating for the Internet of Things

Power dissipation is a concern while designing high-performance systems. Clock gating technique can be used to reduce power. The Internet of Things (IoT) connects smartphones,...

Post-Silicon Validation Methodology in SoC (Part 2 of 2)

Read Part 1 Post-silicon validation is an essential step to verify the proper functioning and operation of an SoC, post manufacture. Part 2 discusses elaborately...

Post-Silicon Validation Methodology in SoC (Part 1 of 2)

Post-silicon validation includes a number of activities such as validation of both functional and timing behaviour as well as non-functional requirements. Each validation has...

Thermal and Humidity Effects on Electronic Equipment

In order to design highly reliable products, designers need to study the intended application environment and its impact on the electronic assembly. This article...

Smart, Wide-Bandwidth Internal Compensation Achieves Small-Size Power Solution

Introduction Shrinking the size of the power solution often sits among the top priorities on a system engineer’s list. This is not because it is...

Design: How to Improve Power Conversion Efficiency of Inverters

Inverters convert DC electricity from sources like solar panels, batteries and fuel cells into AC electricity. Their power-handling capacities like input voltage, output voltage...

High-Frequency Issues In Electronics

This article covers some important issues in design of high-frequency electronic circuits and commonly followed practices to mitigate them. Electronic circuits behave very differently at...

Designing Electro-Medical Equipment

Designing electronic medical devices requires engineers to walk an extra mile. After all, it’s the matter of saving lives! Since accuracy and reliability are...

How to Design IoT Systems

A quick guide to designing a perfect Internet of Things (IoT) system taking into account performance, connectivity, power consumption and security issues The Internet of...

The Golden Rules of Electronic Circuit Design

Knowledge of common pitfalls in electronics circuit design, and how to avoid these, is important for producing any product While testing a smartphone, the manufacturer...

Interactive Analog/Digital Mixed Signal Modeling via Foreign VHDL/Verilog C Interface

The development of modern electronic modules requires even more appropriate tools to facilitate their early prototyping. Mixed Analog/Digital systems today need simulation platforms based...

How Output Technologies are Changing for the Better

3D printers are penetrating into the market, enabling rapid prototyping of realistic 3D models. Ever wondered how these printers are designed? In an era...

Making PCBs at Home Photographically (Part 2 of 2)

Part 1 of this article in previous issue explained the creation of schematic and PCB layout. This part covers the remaining steps for making...

Programming Challenges and Solutions for Non-volatile Memory

Persistence or data storage is a very important aspect for any enterprise or consumer software. However, in terms of speed or latency, the persistent...

Resolving Interference in a Crowded Wi-Fi Environment Using BAW Filters (Part 2)

Read part 1 There are any number of strategies that consumers can try to fix interference problems with Wi-Fi in their homes — moving the...

How Not to Run Hot: Overcoming Thermal Challenges in Wi-Fi Front-End Designs (Part 1)

For wireless access points or customer premises equipment (CPE), it can be hard to fully account for thermal management and the parameters affected by...

Making PCBs at Home Photographically (Part 1 of 2)

Here is a comprehensive guide to making your own PCBs at home using materials that are readily available in shops and online stores. While it addresses single-sided PCBs, it can be extended to create double-sided PCBs as well.
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