Medical Design Features

Understanding wireless charging configurations

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Leadless SMD packages: great performance on a small surface area

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How to use the CORDIC algorithm in your FPGA design

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Choose the right touch technology for your display

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Use GPS and MEMS sensor combo for next-gen positioning and navigation

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EMC Basics #15: Use gaskets to seal and solve leaky RF seam problems

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ADC Guide, Part 5: ADC non-linearity (DNL/INL) and monotonic transfer function

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Understanding low outgassing adhesives

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Use a twist (and other popular wires) to reduce EMI/RFI

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Time is money! A quick fix for those pesky FPGA design errors

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Technical Papers

When a Virtualized Medical Device Makes Sense

Software Development for Medical Devices: Overcoming the Challenges of Compliance, Quality and Cost

Aggregation managers for the connected health system

Unifying Device Management and Cyber Security in the Connected Hospital

Medical Applications Guide

Courses and Webinars

Medical Devices Reach for the Cloud: Building a Scalable and Adaptable Software Platform for Connected Healthcare Devices

Simplify Point-of-Care Patient Monitor Design Using ECG AFE

Persistent Publish/Subscribe Messaging in Medical Devices

Fundamentals of Energy Harvesting

Fundamentals of Power-Supply Distribution Topologies

Teardowns

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Inside a CFL bulb – Less power & longer life using NXP technology

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Satin to introduce automated design monitoring at DAC 2012

Convection-cooled power supply provides 95% efficiency

MIPS introduces new Aptiv generation of processor cores

Energy Micro EFM32 Gecko MCU powers dive computer

Lattice ships over 1 million MachXO2 "Do-It-All" PLDs

Computer-on-module shortens machine vision time to market

TDK rolls out extended life capacitor series

ADI unveils converters for performance and small package advantage

Commentary

Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

Junko Yoshida

This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special digital edition and at events, we plan to honor 40 visionaries, technologies and disruptions that have rewritten the rules—of technology, of the industry, sometimes of society—over the last four decades.

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I suggest the co-inventors of the high-efficiency switching-mode Class-E RF power amplifier: Nathan ...

Goodbye, hardwired switches and circuits: we'll miss you (maybe)

Bill Schweber

It's all sensed switches and touch screens due to their benefits; but they have downsides as well.

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David, Thanks for including that link to Bill's earlier column. I must have missed the original. ...

Debugging the case of the self-powered LED

Bill Schweber

We've all had this happen: the problem is not actually a problem

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" I've always felt that system-level debugging is among the most difficult of all engineering ...

Elon Musk and testing as if your life depended on it

George Leopold

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says you learn more from success than failure. When it comes to manned spaceflight, we beg to differ.

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The last sentences remind me of the way many companies are being managed now (as opposed to being ...

Picoprojectors: the road back to the past, or enabling new paths?

Bill Schweber

I'm having a "back to the future" sense here, but the reality will likely be quite different

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The DLP technology almost replacing the LCD projector technology. TI made this achievement.Also they ...

Engineer down! Someone needs our help!

Clive Maxfield

I just received an email from someone who we will call Dave (because that's his name). Dave says...

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I knew I'd regret putting my old ac and dehumidifier in the trash. They most likely had all the ...

Kill computer science, keep football. Say what?

Brian Fuller

The battle over preserving funding for University of Florida's CS program raises the question of what's more important: sports or academics?

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Is anyone going to submit a resume 10 years after graduation with "I was a starting QB in college" ...

Recent Comments

Bert22306  05.16.2012
IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012
I suppose this will partially depend on whether other tablets, like the Kindle Fire, and the ...
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Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors
Perhaps a little startup known as PLA ;)
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any1  05.16.2012
Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits
Not every design needs to be on the leading edge. There is still money to be made at 130 nm if you ...
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Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

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Autonomous vehicles - Be Afraid

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Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

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Goodbye, hardwired switches and circuits: we'll miss you (maybe)

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