Editor's Note: Low-cost, easy-to-use development systems lower the threshold to entry into embedded systems development for engineers, regardless of their experience level. Among these compact ...

Intelligent digital controllers can simplify power-supply design as well as enhance overall reliability through monitoring and statistical interpretation of key performance metrics. Multiple methods ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Sometimes a design needs more DACs than the mixed-signal microcontroller has available. An easy solution is to put in a ...

Two new Apple patents involving a PWM and a data transformation system have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Patent number 20110254464 involves a pulse width modulation (PWM) closed loop ...

Withclosed loop speed control, the fan controller ensures that the fan isrunning at the desired speed by measuring the actual speed and adjustingthe duty cycle accordingly. Here the host specifies the ...