September 20, 1999
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[Design Application]
Serial Backplanes Transport Designers To The Analog Zone
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Contributing Author
[Ideas For Design]
Simple Charger Targets Lithium-Ion Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are popular in portable equipment due to their high energy densities. Many handheld products are designed to operate from a single lithium-ion cell with an operating voltage...
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Contributing Author
[Ideas For Design]
I2 C Simplifies Front-Panel Design
Interfacing a central processor to a user front panel is usually accomplished in one of two ways. The first method involves a power and a serial data link (typically RS-232), which are routed from...
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Contributing Author
[Ideas For Design]
Nanopower RFID Receiver Yields High Sensitivity
The “RFID tag” receiver seen in the figure has been tested for proof-of-concept at 445 MHz. Some of the familiar receiver techniques, such as direct...
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Contributing Author
[Ideas For Design]
Reactance Circuit Stabilizes Photosensor, Eliminates Ambient Light Interference
Operation of a silicon photodiode as an optical receiving element is typically accomplished using the reverse-biased mode at a specified bias voltage (Fig....
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Contributing Author
[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Dear Bob: Re: "What's All This Vice-Versa Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 2)" (Electronic Design, Aug. 9, p. 107). I take it that in your peripatetic wanderings (Europe, Nepal, etc.), you've...
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Bob Pease
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