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Latest Articles Buck Converters Simplify Energy Harvesting from High-Input-Voltage Transducers By Stephen Evanczuk, Electronic Products 5/8/2013 In certain energy-harvesting applications and operating conditions, transducers such as piezoelectric devices can produce high output voltages well above typical operating levels. In these cases, a step-down, or buck, converter offers a simple choice for maximizing transducer power output. More... |
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How to Choose the Right Power Supply for Your LED Lighting Project Contributed by Publitek European Editors 5/7/2013 With the proliferation of high-brightness LEDs designed to provide replacement lamps for commercial and domestic lighting there comes an equal, if not greater, proliferation of power supply solutions. With hundreds of products from dozens of manufacturers, it becomes a question of how to make sense of all the permutations of input / output voltages and output current / power ratings. More... |
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MCUs in Industrial Automation Contributed by Publitek European Editors 5/8/2013 This article looks at the role of Microcontrollers (MCUs) in industrial automation, specifically examining how they provide the real-world interface to sensors and actuators. It discusses the need for integrating high-performance cores like ARM®’s Cortex™-M3 with precision and dedicated peripherals such as those found on Analog Devices’ ADuCM360 and Energy Micro's EMF32 family. More... |
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STMicroelectronics’ EZ-Boards® - Easy Design with Surface Mount Power Devices By David Swanson, Principal Engineer, STMicroelectronics 5/7/2013 Did you ever build a quick prototype of that nifty idea that has been rolling around in your head? Having the idea is great. Building it for the first time and getting it to work is close to nirvana for folks like me. That really was the fun part of inventing. Making it work. More... |
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Sensor Technologies for Accelerometers Contributed by Publitek European Editors 5/9/2013 There are many different types of accelerometers for industrial applications, ranging from the latest micro-machined capacitive devices to traditional rugged piezo electric crystals. The boom in portable devices and the advantages of knowing the position and orientation of the equipment has led to an explosion in the different types of devices in recent years. More... |
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Control Loop Challenges of Wireless Systems Contributed by Publitek European Editors 5/9/2013 This article looks at the challenges of implementing control loops with a wireless sensor network. It looks at the latency requirements of different closed and open control loop architectures and the wireless network protocols that can support them. More... |
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