| Evolution of portable gaming, Part 1 |
2009-03-02 |
| Here's a timeline illustrating how far the portable gaming industry has advanced in 20-odd years. |
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MCU design in FPGAs |
2009-01-05 |
| Read about the design and implementation of FPGAs for MCU applications, as well as its benefits. |
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Capacitive sensing improves water-cooler control |
2008-11-11 |
| Capacitive sensing offers a new way to interact with users that overcome the traditional problems push-button switches. |
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Selecting memory controllers for DSP systems |
2008-08-18 |
| DSP system performance is often limited by I/O constraints. Here's how to make sure your memory system meets your latency requirements through virtual prototyping. |
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How to give your PLCs a boost |
2008-08-06 |
| With the variety of ways PACs can be connected to PLC architectures, engineers can easily improve their PLC-based automation systems. |
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Improving motion-control architectures |
2008-07-22 |
| It is not just improved motors and MOSFETs that matter; architectures play a key role in modern motion control. |
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The basics of control system design: Tuning a controller (2 |
2008-04-27 |
| Tuning a proportional controller is straightforward: Raise the gain until instability appears |
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The basics of control system design: Moving beyond PID (1) |
2008-04-27 |
| Find out the basics of control systems design and how you can improve yours in this article. |
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Robust controller design using multi-objective optimisation |
2008-03-10 |
| The powerful SQP algorithm such as implemented in MATLAB will speed your DC/DC designs. |
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Upgrade in-vehicle entertainment performance |
2008-01-16 |
| As the electronic content of cars, trucks, and SUVs increases, the number of microcontrollers built into new vehicles also grows every year. New generations of 32bit MCUs that support the Intelligent Transportation Systems Data Bus-1394 (IDB-1394) specification with the ability to move audio and video reliably and rapidly around a vehicle are becoming available. |
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| NAND flash preps for 4 bits per cell |
2007-10-29 |
| Adoption of MLC technology for NAND flash has been a crucial factor in achieving bit growth of NAND flash devices. |
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Building Bare-Metal ARM Systems with GNU (6) |
2007-07-30 |
| This is part six of a series that provides step-by-step instructions on how to build ARM Systems with GNU. |
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Defeating turn on overshoot |
2007-04-02 |
| This article illustrates how to eliminate the turn on overshoot associated with integrated feedback circuits in forward, half-bridge, full-bridge or push-pull converter topologies. |
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Standards, processes enable auto electronics integration |
2006-12-12 |
| The increasing sophistication and diversity of auto electronics is a result of mixed-signal process improvement and vehicle-networking standards. |
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VSPs spur on-time delivery of embedded auto systems software (2) |
2006-10-24 |
| With virtual systems prototypes as a case in point, this article discusses designing in quality, rather than testing for quality—with applicability to single unit and distributed controller platforms |
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Getting started with the MAX1233/MAX1234 touchscreen controllers |
2008-07-31 |
| This application note shows how to exercise the features of the MAX1233/MAX1234 touchscreen controllers. |
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Implementing DDR2 PCB layout on the TMS320DM646x |
2008-07-30 |
| Implement the DDR2 memory controller interface contained in the TMS320DM646x DSP devices |
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Sensorless BLDC control with back-EMF filtering using a majority function |
2008-07-11 |
| Implement a sensorless BLDC motor control algorithm using dsPIC digital signal controller |
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Achieving higher ADC resolution using oversampling |
2008-07-04 |
| Higher ADC accuracy is achieved by designing hardware to quantize the analog signal amplitude into the digital signal with a higher code-word length. |
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Interfacing the MCP2122 to the host controller |
2008-07-02 |
| This article discusses methods that can be used to interface MCP2122 to a host controller |
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Use a USB flash drive with an embedded host |
2008-06-18 |
| Check how a data logger application runs on the Explorer 16 demo board with the USB PICtail Plus Daughter Board. |
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Using the STMPE801 as a keypad controller |
2007-05-03 |
| This application note describes how to use the 8 internal GPIOs of a base-band processor and the 8 GPIOs of the STMPE801 port expander to control an 8*8 (64-key) matrix keypad. The STMPE801 is STMicroelectronics' 8bit general purpose port expander device whose eight GPIOs are connected to the host system using a standard I2C connection. |
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Reference system: MCH OPB SDRAM with OPB central DMA |
2007-05-03 |
| Targeted for the Memec Virtex-II Pro 2VP7-FG456 demo board, this reference system describes how to set up the parameters for the MicroBlaze processor, the MCH OPB EMC and the OPB Central DMA controller |
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Reference system: MCH OPB DDR SDRAM with OPB Central DMA |
2007-05-03 |
| Targeted for the Xilinx SP305 Spartan-3 development board, this reference system describes how to set up MicroBlaze parameters for caching, the clocking structure for the MCH OPB DDR SDRAM, and parameters for OPB burst transactions from the OPB Central DMA controller |
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Synthesisable CIO DDR RLDRAM II controller for Virtex-4 FPGAs |
2007-04-27 |
| Virtex-4 device is used to interface to Common I/O (CIO) Double Data Rate (DDR) Reduced Latency DRAM (RLDRAM II) devices. This application note describes reference design targetting two CIO DDR RLDRAM II devices at a clock rate of 200/235MHz with data transfers at 400/470Mbps per pin. |
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DDR SDRAM controller using Virtex-4 FPGAs |
2007-04-27 |
| The implementation of a DDR SDRAM controller in a Virtex-4 XC4VLX25 FF668 -10C device requires direct clocking for data capture and an automatic calibration circuit to adjust delay on the data lines. This application note explains the reference design for the implementation of these low-cost, high-density DDR SDRAM devices. This reference design has been developed using both SDRAM components and DIMMs |
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300W, wide mains, PFC stage driven by the NCP1653 |
2005-06-22 |
| 300W, wide mains, PFC stage driven by the NCP1653 |
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Powering Celeron-type microprocessors using TI's TPS5210 and TPS5211 controllers |
2005-06-14 |
| This app note discusses Celeron-type microprocessors using TI's TPS5210 and TPS5211 controllers. |
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Interfacing TI's touch screen controllers through McBSP |
2005-06-10 |
| This app note develops and presents the methodology to interface TI's touch screen controller products and multichannel buffered serial ports (McBSP) through SPI and I2S buses |
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ISP176x linux programming guide |
2005-06-09 |
| This app note provides information on the interfaces and data structures required to use the ISP176x host controller, OTG controller and peripheral controller driver layers for the Linux operating system |
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