Understanding New Developments in Measurement and Control Handbook

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Enclosure Design Tips Handbook

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The selection of a cabinet, enclosure or other packaging for electronic products presents the designer or system integrator with a variety of choices besides those factors dictated by the nature of the application. This eBook describes the important issues of packaging for electronic systems and products with the goal of helping designers evaluate options quickly and select the optimum solution for an application. Many enclosure solutions can be delivered with custom features or modifications.

Analog/Mixed Signal Components for 21st-Century Video

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Not so very long ago, video signals were analog, limited to a few MHz of bandwidth, and well understood. Today, there are multiple standards for standard and high definition digital television (HDTV), multimedia, and computer graphics. Video signals based on those standards are found in products ranging from personal media players, video game consoles and cell phones to home theaters and workstations for high-end architectural CAD tools - and cinema-quality computer animation. One thing almost all video products have in common is that at some point, the signal must be dealt with in the analog domain. Circuit designers need to know which video amplifiers are most appropriate for each application. They need to be able to address questions such as: how do the characteristics listed on an op-amp datasheet relate the pixel density and refresh rate specs of the different standards? How is it possible to drive video signals down media like twisted-pair? What are the tradeoffs implicit in driving a modest-resolution display in a cell phone or game console with a video signal intended for a high-end home-theatre size screen? This eBook from Electronic Design will help design engineers answer those types of questions.

A Black-Box Approach to Analog-To-Digital Converters

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Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) tutorials often focus on circuit details and their impact on performance. In contrast, this eBook takes a black-box approach by concentrating on the common characteristics of all ADCs and what they imply for the system-level designer.

Electronic Design's Guide To New International Environmental Laws

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New Hazardous Materials Directives coming out of Europe, Japan and China will have a major impact on the global electronics industry. Is the industry prepared?

• What Are The Issues?
• Minefield or Opportunity?
• How Is The Industry Responding?

The 25 countries of the European Union, including its 10 new Eastern European member countries, as well as Japan and China are about to restrict the use of environmentally hazardous materials in electronic components and systems.

This will have a huge impact on the industry -- all chip and equipment manufacturers and distributors doing business internationally must comply with these new directives.

The Analog Insider

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The Analog Insider provides an applications-oriented overview of analog ICs, their circuit topologies, the tradeoffs that engineers must make in selecting among them, and the practical considerations that must be applied when they are used in actual circuits.

Voltage Regulator Modules

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Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs) are specialized point-of-load (POL) voltage regulators for Intel and AMD processors. Unlike garden-variety non-isolated POLs, VRMs can be assigned their voltage-regulation specs -- dynamically -- by the processors they power. Using VRMs correctly requires careful reading of multiple specifications, but ED's Sam Davis has squeezed much of the basic knowledge needed by processor board designers -- and experimenters who want to enhance the performance of existing boards -- into five chapters.