Technical Features

    October 2010
    Transformer Design Comparisons for Mitigating EMI in Gate Driver Circuits

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    Figure 1: Gate driver circuit diagram with a Bourns transformer

    While gate driver-based converters deliver improved efficiency, speed and signal integrity, their high frequency switching features can produce elevated levels of conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI), posing challenges to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and overall system reliability. To solve this
    Date:
    03/29/2026
    Lattice Launches Platform Manager
    At the company's press launch in Munich, Germany, Gordon Hands, Director of Strategic Marketing for Lattice's Low Density and Mixed Signal Solutions, presented Lattice's next-generation programmable
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    Date:
    10/27/2010
    Medical Compliance

    A Quality Management System for the Delivery of Products or Services (Source: International Organization for Standardization)

    When companies are certified by international standards or qualified by a regulatory body, it signals to customers that these companies are dedicated to producing a quality product consistently
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    Date:
    10/22/2010
    Solar Energy Harvesting
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    Date:
    10/18/2010
    Powering Medical Applications
    Safety is paramount wherever power supplies are used, but nowhere more so than in medical applications where even small parasitic leakage currents may compromise safety. First published in 1977,
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    Date:
    10/01/2010
    Smart Battery Management in Medical Devices
    Technology advancements over the past few years have generated many new developments that have specifically benefitted the portable medical device market. The focus of such efforts has centered
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    Date:
    10/01/2010
    Lowest Cost Medical and Beyond
    Analog Devices products and technologies have made a significant contribution in healthcare designs - helping shape the future of diagnostics and monitoring equipment, as well as health and wellness
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    Date:
    10/01/2010
    Portable Ultrasound System Design
    I had the great pleasure to talk with Suresh Ram, Director, Medical Key Market Segment at National Semiconductor Corporation. Suresh is responsible for driving the strategy and development of innovative
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    Date:
    10/01/2010
    Designing High Performance 4-Channel Audio
    Whether it is automotive entertainment or home theater systems, consumers have been asking for more channels and speakers with the ability to handle higher audio power levels per channel. In addition
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    Date:
    10/01/2010
    Medical Equipment Design
    A stethoscope, whether acoustic or digital, is used mainly to listen to heart and lung sounds in the body as an aid to diagnosis. Listening, or auscultation, has been done with acoustic stethoscopes
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    Date:
    10/01/2010

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