Power Test (electronic)

Low-power PLDs: a good choice for portable designs

By admin4 on July 1, 2008

Today, anyone currently designing portable equipment is concerned with power, cost, and package size. These concerns usually rule out traditional silicon solutions employed by telecom, datacom and server engineers, since a speed/power tradeoff often exists. For portable designers, this usually excludes programmable logic as well. Moreover, sense amplifier technology and large packages has left little [...]

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Advanced power loss analysis using oscilloscope

By admin4 on July 1, 2008

The higher data speeds and GHz-class processors used in new Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) architectures are creating new pressures for power supply designers. To address these demands, designers are adopting new techniques like synchronous rectifiers, active power filter correction and higher switching frequencies.
However, these techniques bring unique challenges such as high power dissipation at the [...]

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