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Protecting the Universal Serial Bus from Over Voltage and Overcurrent Threats

This application note addresses the various requirements for protecting the Universal Serial Bus (USB) from overcurrent and over voltage environmental threats.The solutions presented cover both USB 1.1 and the higher speed USB 2.0 circuitry. Specific emphasis is placed on USB 2.0 with infor- mation directed at hot connection over current conditions and electrostatic discharge (ESD) […]

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Epson develops compact atomic oscillator

Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a small, highly stable atomic oscillator, the AO6860LAN, for telecommunications networks and industrial applications. The development of the new oscillator will be presented on November 4, 2015, in Edinburgh, UK, at the upcoming ITSF 2015 (the International Telecom Sync Forum). Volume production is scheduled to begin in 2016. The new

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Increasing cable length in precision video applications

raditionally, the physical environment for transmitting video signals over long distances has been the shielded coax cable. Its quality and advantages are well known, and many times designers looking for off-the-shelf solutions do not know that long distance video transmission can be achieved with the same quality but for a much lower price. 1. Design

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IR remote tester

O circuito não necessita de muitos componentes…basta um microcontrolador, um receptor de infravermelhos e alguns leds para indicarem o nível de dados recebidos pelo comando. Funciona com qualquer comando desde que seja infra-vermelhos. O microcontrolador que usei foi o 12F683 da Microchip em formato SOIC. Apenas precisa de 2 pilhas AAA e consome apenas 0.8mhA

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HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch

Hello fellow ‘instructablers’! In this instructable I’ll present you a brand new project that I’ve just completed. In fact, I’m using the project itself to write this instructable. I present to you the amazing, the fantastic, the magnificent… HacKeyboard! What is HacKeyboard? It looks like a computer keyboard, and it is, but not an ordinary

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TI introduces world’s first multichannel inductance-to-digital converters

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the world’s first multichannel inductance-to-digital converters (LDCs). The four new devices in the LDC1614 family expand the innovative LDC portfolio, a data converter category that TI first introduced in 2013. The devices offer two or four matched channels and up to 28-bit resolution in a single integrated circuit (IC). The combination

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Save space on your PCB with TRACOPOWER!

TMLM family of 4-20W AC/DC power supply is the right solution on most important requirements – constraint space, high efficiency and cost saving. 5 Every square inch of your PCB costs money. It is a fact, and if you can reduce your PCB´s area, you actually save money. Moreover if you use a high

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Ohmkara Breadboarding MultiTool: Electronics Prototyping

About this project OVERVIEW If you’ve done electronics prototyping, you’ve worked with a breadboard. Getting your wires or components to fit can be quite the hassle. Trying to decipher a mess like this is even more nasty. There’s no more need to buy pre-cut wires or to guesstimate while cutting jumper wires. The OHMkara tool

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StickOS and CPUStick – Build a Simple Toaster Oven Temperature Profile Controller 2/2

Using a highly-integrated microcontroller running “StickOS BASIC”, it is possible to quickly build a toaster oven temperature profile controller for performing surface mount (SMT) printed circuit board reflow soldering at home. Continuing with the first article, the schematic and configuration for the Toaster Oven Temperature Profile are presented. 1. Schematic and configuration The schematic

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Large 7-Segment Clock,

Since it was one of the first things I ever built, I decided to put it in an enclosure of its own and consider it too as a finished product. The problem was that the prototype never ran properly. It worked, just not as well as it should. Needless to say, I tried to fix

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