Texas Instruments' Bill Klein Signal Chain Articles. Given the interest it has provoked the introductive article on "The MIDAS Touch for Signal Chain" , these articles are for the deepening the argument, proposing the presentation of Bill Klein in text format and then introduce a series of articles, written in parallel with Bill and in collaboration with Farnell on "signal chain", already known as MIDAS. So articles about Mixed_signal, Interface, Data_conversion, Amplification and Sensors will be published in the coming days.

By John Isaac, Mentor Graphics [ Courtesy of Assipe ]
In today’s competitive electronics industry, getting to market ahead of the competition can mean the difference between a successful product and one that misses its market window. Design cycle time plays a big part in determining a product launch schedule and the PCB layout portion of this process often is called upon to make up for early design phase schedule slips. One designer and one computer at a time can be a limiting factor.

Your News Open Source is the newborn from the Your Electronics Open Source family. Your News Open Source is a site dedicated to the news of the electronics world. Each news is framed in Topics (RF, Analogs, Digitals, Passives o General) and with tags. If you want to read the whole news you can do it through the link which is located immediately after it, or going into the bottom of the page where you can find all producers from where Your News Open Source takes news. If some tag intrigue you (you find the entire list at the bottom of the page in the section Tags Cloud) you have to click on it and will appear all the news that belong to that tag.

Striking Gold in Advanced Analogue From Farnell
Today’s world is heavily reliant upon monitoring and control of a wide variety of physical effects, for example to utilise resources such as energy more efficiently, and to realise improvements in quality of life. Examples of electronic products that are used to achieve these goals include fuel metering and exhaust monitoring systems, medical scanners, portable health monitoring instruments, remote equipment-status monitors, and advanced security systems.

The USB specification was introduced in November 1995. USB was promoted by Intel, Microsoft, Philips and US Robotics. Originally USB was intended to replace the multitude of connectors at the back of PCs, as well as to simplify software configuration of communication devices. A USB system has an asymmetric design, consisting of a host, a multitude of downstream USB ports, and multiple peripheral devices connected in a tiered-star topology.[Wikipedia, USB]
But behind all these, it is an entire world about USB. Discover it in our 100% USB Book!

The printed circuits boards(PCB) for the production, are realized with a finishing process named H.A.L. (Hot Air Levelling) while the prototypes' realization, usually, with a finishing process named "chemical tin". But which are the differences and especially, considering the prices, the process' quickness and the normative in force that bans the lead employment (RoHS), which is the best to be used and why?

ARM is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture, developed by ARM Limited that is the most widely used 16/32-bit embedded RISC solution in the world. The ARM instruction set architecture has evolved significantly since it was first developed, and will continue to be developed in the future! This is our Book about ARM dev.emcelettronica/arm

FTPmicro is a web-server or ftp-client, as big as a DIP40 package, based on the PIC18F67J60.
Despite the small dimensions, the board has some interesting features:
1) A microSD card slot
2) A TC1047 temperature sensor
3) Many analog and digital I/O pins
4) Microchip TCP/IP stack
5) Connector for the ICD2 programmer/debugger by Microchip

The STORE of DEV.Emcelettronica is for professional and companies that intend to commercialize the project or/and produce it they can download the file gerber (in order to realize the plan directly) and/or the ASM (to realize the software directly).

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FLEX is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC DSC family.
FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC DSC micro-controller.

Develop a single-click digital control automatic code generation tool for FLEX! Using the Scilab/Scicos FLEX Toolbox it is possible to automatically generate code from Scicos control diagrams to fast prototype control algorithms and digital control systems for microcontroller and DSP embedded application.

ERIKA Enterprise is an innovative RTOS for small microcontrollers based on an API similar to those proposed by the OSEK/VDX Consortium.The ERIKA Enterprise kernel implements innovative scheduling algorithms such as Fixed Priority with preemption thresholds, Stack Resource Policy (SRP), and Earliest Deadline First (EDF), which can be used to schedule tasks with real-time requirements.

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Passed by now the " psychological" threshold of 1000visits/day, we are pointing to another important goal.
Presently we have an average of 6K visits/day with a maximum peak of 13K and our (minimum) objective is to arrive within 2007 to an average of 10000!!

Use the GOOGLE API AJAX for Electronics
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Looking for iPhone curiosities, in my web surfing, I have discovered an interesting scoop.
The battery is soldering to the phone (no standard connector) !
OK, there is an interface (PCB) but the soldering is handsmade!!
Probably the Apple's reasons are valids, I don't know if they follow Assembly strong specifications or is only a battery marketing operation...