The right connectors will eliminate downtime on a busy production line. But with the thousands of connectors currently on the market, even experienced engineers can find it difficult to select the right one for the job. This paper explores how you can minimize this connector confusion using four technical factors. Download the white paper from Lapp to learn more... … [More]
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Practical Guide to Maximizing DC Measurement Performance
Taking quality DC measurements is a cornerstone of testing semiconductor chips. Learn how you can improve measurement accuracy and product quality for power management ICs, RF power amplifiers, and … [More]
How Co-modeling Provides Powerful Capabilities for Hardware Emulation
Understanding co-modeling technology in an emulation environment and its’ impact on verification and validation is critical to improving a wide range of significant capabilities. This is especially … [More]
C-Lube Keeps Linear Motion Components Lubricated
Various takes on maintenance-free linear guides have been around for years, but not all of them are created equal. Some focus on achieving the longest possible maintenance-free intervals. Others focus … [More]
MCU-based High-accuracy Measurement System
Measurement systems play a critical role in industrial, medical, and building automation applications where data collected from sensors is used to improve efficiency, ensure reliability, or make … [More]
White Paper: Calculations & Formulas for Coreless DC Motors
When selecting a brush DC motor for an application, there are several basic motor physics principles to consider to produce a safe, well-functioning, sufficiently-powered precision drive system. In … [More]
Best Practical Jitter Tolerance Testing with Signal Quality Analyzer MP1900A
Accurate evaluation of device characteristics requires testing by injecting multiple types of jitter on the device under test (DUT). This paper explains types of jitter, guidance on measurements for … [More]
7 Principles of Product-Centric Quality Management
The burden on quality and operations leaders to introduce compliant and innovative medical devices to market is great. And as regulatory standards, market requirements, and device complexities have … [More]
How to Ensure Equivalence Between C++ and RTL Designs
When designers move their untimed C++ design descriptions through a high-level synthesis (HLS) flow, they wonder if the generated, timed RTL is functionally equivalent to the original, high-level … [More]
A Case Study of RTL Power Optimization at NVIDIA
Graphic processing chips are known to push the technical limits of hardware design, semiconductor capability and power consumption. With every generation of chips, it becomes more important for … [More]
How Ethernet is Driving the Need for New Data Center and Wireless Infrastructure Timing Solutions
Due to its ubiquity and decreasing support costs, Ethernet is being broadly adopted in data center and wireless networks to enable higher network utilization and lower cost data transmission. Learn … [More]
What They Didn’t Teach you in Engineering School about Heat Transfer
Heat and its behavior are complex. Rules of thumb are often used to visualize the heat path for design or physical prototypes; but knowing how heat is traveling, at what speed and where it will go, is … [More]
What They Didn’t Teach you in Engineering School about 3D Pressure Drop
Pressure loss is one of the greatest challenges faced by designers. After all, a pressure drop translates to a loss in energy which would have to be compensated by a higher energy demand. Therefore, … [More]
Meeting the Design Challenges of Smart Metering
Smart metering devices record and report the consumption of a utility service through a communications network, offering providers improved reliability and accuracy and giving consumers the ability to … [More]
Implementing Position Sensors for Hazardous Areas & Safety
A significant proportion of industrial equipment will be deployed in what are described as hazardous areas, or possibly applications that require a functional safety assessment. Hazardous areas … [More]
White Paper: Industrial HMI in a Package
The growing popularity of HMI-based systems and markets where HMI and streaming converge is driving the need for higher-end MPU implementations that can manage the demands of highly sophisticated … [More]