Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

LLC Resonant Transformer Design Tips

e14 Contributor

Featuring zero voltage switching and low voltage stress, LLC resonant transformers are suitable for high power and high efficiency power supplies. As LLC resonant power supplies are now being widely used and more and more people are asking questions ...
- 7 Jul 2011
Standby Power Under 10mW Now Possible for Portable Device Chargers

e14 Contributor

With the demand for AC-DC external power supplies projected to increase from just over 3 billion units in 2010 to 4.97 billion units in 2014, and because this is a key growth area of communications, driven by mobile phones, finding ways to reduce sta...
- 7 Jul 2011
Reliable Reliability

e14 Contributor

With an IQ of 181, you might think it’s hard for me to amuse myself, but it’s not true. I like a little light reading in the evening…things like Kreck and Lück’s The Novikov Conjecture (A group G is a-T-menable, or, equivalently, has the Haagerup pro...
- 7 Jul 2011
Gate Charge and On Resistance—I’ll take Less of Both, Please

e14 Contributor

Dear Dr. FAE. It would be really great if you would provide MOSFETs with lower on resistance. Resistance causes heat and this heat represents wasted energy. Why do you hate the environment?- Angry in AugustaDear Dr. Fred. I am switching your FETs at ...
- 7 Jul 2011
How do you stabilize an unruly boost converter?

e14 Contributor

Dear Fred. Can I call you Fred? I hope so. Can you help me? I am trying to stabilize a boost converter, but it reminds me of my three-year-old daughter. She won’t behave. Neither will my boost regulator. I know you like design details. My converter i...
- 7 Jul 2011
Moflash News: Sales of Moflash products in mainland Europe reach record levels

e14 Contributor

With the weakness of the pound and a prolonged focus on sales activities sales for Moflash have reached record levels. Over the last few years, Moflash have identified a number of new partners in Europe and these cooperations are starting to bear fru...
- 5 Jul 2011
Are Obsolescence issues an issue for you?

wendypreston

Hello all, We have recently encountered a number of questions on a similar theme coming in to Technical Central at Harwin HQ – namely that of obsolescence. Some of you have may seen a brief reply I posted in response to an Element14 questi...
- 4 Jul 2011
Stage 1: The Road to London

SamKavanagh

The road to London began years ago. It began in those lonely moments after being informed that I was not going to the 2008 Beijing games. Two solitary clicks of the second hand,during Paralympic Qualifications,changed the path I was on. A...
- 27 Jun 2011
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

NurulTaha

A recent interview I did for a local newspaper got me thinking why I've continued training and competing in boccia, despite facing many challenges. Sports may appear to be a very simple concept: it is an activity you partake in to reach a certai...
- 27 Jun 2011
Technology and Humans - are we really that compatible?

e14 Contributor

After my last blog, I'm just itching to broach this topic! Well are we? Our own evolution is a very slowprocess and our current strengths, according to natural selection, are based on the demands of Earth'senvironment many thousands of years ago. So ...
- 27 Jun 2011
STH

e14 Contributor

Hi,Is STH is a relavant cheaper alternative for PTH ?. How long this technology will survive in view of spairling silver cost and closing price gap between STH and PTH ?. Is it right time to enter into this segment?
- 27 Jun 2011
Implementation of Neural network in Microcontroller.

e14 Contributor

Yeap I am tring right now this>>>Implementation of Neural network in Microcontroller.with MATLAB and my lpc xpresso kit from NXP.It will rocking if i do soming interesting like that..
- 26 Jun 2011
Technology and Education - a growing partnership

e14 Contributor

Technology, especially electronic technology and even more specifically, digital electronic technology, is literally growing at an explosive rate.There may be detractors who say, "well this is not such a good thing". Maybe we can leave that debate fo...
- 24 Jun 2011
Coming Soon...

TheVideoGuy

Welcome Everyone! I'm excited to announce that the videos you see in and around the element14 community are about to get a major facelift! We started with the groundbreaking knode launch video (watch it here: http://www.element14.com/community/v...
- 21 Jun 2011
Recent Xilinx University Program (XUP) DSP Primer workshop in Prague

e14 Contributor

I recently attended an XUP DSP on FPGA workshop at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Many thanks to the hosts, Czech Technical University as well as Xilinx University Program,Parimal Patel and the workshop presenters, Bob Stewart and Louise ...
- 21 Jun 2011
World's first serial hybrid electric aircraft to fly at Paris Air Show

GardenState

Air traffic accounts for some 2.2 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide. For this reason, aircraft, too, must become more efficient. One possible solution – which Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and the European aerospace firm EADS are testing in...
- 20 Jun 2011
Road Testing The FTDI Vinculo (VNC2) USB Development Board

e14 Contributor

I was lucky enough to get involved in the Farnell/element14 'road test' programme, where individual electronic hobbyists get a chance to review (and keep) cool hardware items from Farnell. Last year I was lucky enough to attend a really useful f...
- 17 Jun 2011
WOW: Did you check out the DAC "Design Automation Conference" in San Diego

e14 Contributor

Fellow designers/inventors: It used to be that sophisticated electronic system design was out of reach of mere mortals (READ: Design tools cost $$). But these days, design tools, especially those tools for designs using off-the-shelf parts are really...
- 13 Jun 2011
demande de passage d' un type de microcontroleur à un autre.

hgerard

Une Personne serait telle en mesure de passer ces sources d'un microcontroleur atmega8 vers pic18f4550 ? Attachments:community.element14.com/.../ul_2D00_17.zip community.element14.com/.../ul_2D00_15.zip community.element14.com/.../usb2lpt.zip
- 9 Jun 2011
Fantastic idea

Andre-Schmeets

Just a quick link to a fantastic idea. This is fun with electronics ! Thomas Rutgers VIDEO Andre
- 30 May 2011
First post from WSN Solutions

lbeck37

Just got the blog up at element 14 and wanted to let you know that SavySense is close to having their first commercial units available for purchase for wirelessly monitoring growing conditions for nurseries or serious home gardeners.
- 28 May 2011
Nouveau Record du Monde pour Polyjoule !!

Polyjoule

Vendredi 27 Mai, Poyljoule vient de battre son propre record du monde au Shell Eco Marathon, en pile à combustible. 590 km/kWh, soit l'équivalent de 5136 km/l équivalent essence.!! Encore deux essais pour essayer cette après-midi et demain d'all...
- 27 May 2011
Deuxième tentative.

Polyjoule

En fin d'après midi nous décidons de lancer une seconde fois notre véhicule sur la piste. 7 tours abordés parfaitement, tant dans le pilotage que la stratégie. Malheureusement un défaut au niveau de la pile nous empêche de finir le 8eme et derni...
- 26 May 2011
Première Performance pour Polyjoule.

Polyjoule

Ce matin, Polyjoule réalise sa première performance au Shell-Eco-Marathon, avec 507 km/kWh, soit environ 4400 km/litre équivalent d'essence. Ceci nous place pour le moment en tête de la catégorie Hydrogène ! Pour voir toutes les photos consultés...
- 26 May 2011
Ouverture de la compétition du Shell Eco-Marathon

Polyjoule

Après plusieurs jours de préparation et d'essais , aujourd'*** s'ouvre officiellement la compétition du Shell-Eco Marathon. Actuellement notre équipe attend pour accéder dans les premiers à laligne de départ, afin d'avoir le champ libre sur le c...
- 26 May 2011