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A bypass-capacitor dialogue peels back the layers, Part 3: Continuing the discussion on layout considerations The low-glamour but extremely vital subject of bypass capacitors, grounding, and decoupling gets additional investigation through a basic dialogue

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D/A converters integrate a low-drift reference in an 8-lead TSOT-23 package Linear has introduced the LTC2631, a family of pin- and software-compatible 12-bit, 10-bit and 8-bit D/A converters in a tiny TSOT-23 package, making it the smallest I�C D/A converter family with an internal reference on the market today.

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RFID in Hospitals A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that radio frequency identification systems can cause "potentially hazardous incidents in medical devices" in hospitals. While these findings have sparked a flurry of media attention and panic over the safety of RFID, there might not be as much to fear as first thought.

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It's easy to say "it's easy" when you're naive Just because something is easy to say doesn't make it easy to do, especially if you're ignorant about the specifics. . . . Bill Schweber, Planet Analog Editor more

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215 million IP-enabled consumer devices by 2012 The number of IP-enabled consumer devices in the home should grow from a current base of 64 million to 215 million in 2012, Multimedia Intelligence Inc., with the number of ports will "far exceed" those utilized. Author Mark Kirstein pointed to the overlapping functionality of many devices in the home, which will leave some wireline or wireless ports unused, as well as the IP ports in set-top boxes that are not enabled by the service provider.

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