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Good bridge-circuit design satisfies gain and balance criteria Bridge circuits are the electrical analog of the mechanical beam balance as well as the predecessor of all electrical differential techniques. The [...]

What DOS does for DSP Given a rough target cost of $5000, you can assemble a DOS-based, 80386-class computer with the hardware and software needed to develop a range of [...]

Tango-Schematic provides a wealth of features for quick creation of schematic diagrams and netlists on a PC. Tango-Schematic has extensive device libraries, containing over 20,000 components. Using Tango's integrated, single-program [...]

Design high-quality, multilayer printed circuit boards with Tango-PCB or Tango-PCB PLUS software. Tango's powerful, easy-to-use design tools have brought tens of thousands of boards to life. Tango's ergonomic user interface [...]

Low-cost industrial PC family draws little power and fits in a small space System Designers often adapt PC components for embedded-system needs. However, mother boards designed for desktop applications don't [...]

250-MHz digital storage oscilloscope provides 1G samples/sec for $10,950 The HP54510A simultaneously samples two 25-MHz-bandwidth channels at 1G samples/sec. Although not the first DSO (digital storage oscilloscope) to offer this [...]

12-bit A/D converter offers self-calibration A/D converters serving in high-accuracy process control, high-resolution data acquisition, digital signal processing, and similar applications have a strong interest in self-calibration to remove external [...]

'Cold plate' speeds '486 to 50 MHz SANTA CLARA, CA--Intel Corp is evaluating a thermo-electric cooling device that houses a standard 80486 processor and enables the 33-MHz version of the [...]

Single chip implements FDDI physical layer AT&T'S T7351, the first single-chip solution for the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) physical (PHY) layer, saves designes as much as 60% board space [...]

Tango-Route and Tango-Route PLUS are productive, yet affordable, circuit board autorouters. When used with the corresponding Tango PCB layout editor and Tango-Schematic (or other schematic entry package), Tango-Route provides tremendous [...]

Tango-Route PRO is a high-performance autorouter for extremely fast, high-completion of printed circuit boards. Tango-Route PRO's speed, completion rate and features make it the most powerful autorouter running on IBM-PCs [...]

Tango-BETAsoft or 'Board-level Electronic Thermal Analyzer' is a thermal-reliability software tool for printed circuit design, that allows you to beta test board hardware during design. With many differing IC technologies, [...]

Rugged, nonvolatile data card features allow contacts A data card that tolerates harsh environments and lasts 5 to 10 times longer than similar products now expands your options for controlling [...]

Integrated tool set makes software development in C++ easier Objectworks\C++ Release 2 is an integrated tol set for object-oriented programming (OOP) that helps you develop software in C++ language. The [...]

Controller combines multiprotocol serial communications with [microprocessor] The Z80181 Smart Access Controller (SAC) combines the features of three ICs with additional I/O ports. The resulting collage is an intelligent peripheral [...]

Rewritable 133M-byte optical drive features 30-msec average seek time A low-mass read-write head on the Model RMD-5100-S rewritable optical drive results in an average seek time of 30 msec--competitive with [...]

Logic analyzers let you use one probe set for timing and 50-MHz state analysis Although there is probably no truly objective way to measure ease of use, Philips and Fluke [...]

FPGA family targets 40-MHz systems Plus Array field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allow you to develop logic that operates in real time with a 40-MHz system clock. You develop circuitry based [...]

VMEbus array processor performs 100 MFLOPS The VE-32C-01V is a single-slot VMEbus array processor for such computing-intensive applications as image processing, digital signal processing, graphics, and finite element analysis. Based [...]

C compiler for microprogramming optimizes custom architectures Using a standard high-level language to microprogram custom architectures may seem like a contradiction in terms, but not any longer. The MetaStep C [...]