Introduction:TCA and uTCA are getting popular in today's infrastructure systems. We see an increasing number of designs with bus supporting multiple daughter cards. The first Hot-swap control chip was introduced to reduce the inrush current when plugging a card into the backplane. Now, the hot-swap technology is far more mature.
In this seminar, we will discuss how the control scheme affects hot-swap reliability, stability and overall cost. Also, we抣l show you some test waveforms to demonstrate how an intelligent current-power limit combined technology helps with hot-swap interface design.

Introduction:With LabVIEW, engineers and scientists can acquire and output real-world signals, analyze data for meaningful information, develop embedded or autonomous systems, and share results with displays, reports, and the Web. Watch this webcast to learn the fundamentals of graphical programming and discover how LabVIEW can benefit your applications by providing data acquisition and signal generation, signal processing and analysis, connectivity with third-party hardware and software, and desktop, embedded and industrial deployment.

Introduction:Have you ever had trouble designing a new sensor? If so, don't miss the chance to learn how to easily compare hundreds of sensors and complete your sensor path design with National's new online tool. In this webinar, we will go through a new tool with three simple steps: learn about and explore sensors, compare and select the best sensor for your application, and then design and build your solution. We will also share with you design tips and considerations that will support your time-to-market plans.

Introduction:In the past, FPGAs were typically low density and low performance梪sed primarily as "glue" logic to piece together a system. Today, FPGAs are high density, high performance components梪sed to implement major system functionality. Since the current trend is to use multiple FPGAs on a PCB, how do you effectively and efficiently integrate the two? New FPGA/PCB concurrent design processes and tools significantly improve system performance, product costs, and designer productivity. This session will discuss these new design approaches.

Introduction:Local oscillators can be found in many segments, such as wireless infrastructure, tuner and ADC/DAC clock, etc. Most of the applications required that the local oscillator must be tunable. Therefore, in this seminar, we will focus on VCO, voltage control oscillator. Since the frequency of a VCO will drift without control, a phase lock loop is introduced to lock the VCO to the desired frequency. Hence, when we talk about local oscillators, we are referring to the whole PLL+VCO system design.
In this seminar, we will also see how the key design parameters, such as charge pump current, N-counter value and phase comparison frequency, etc affect the overall system performance like loop bandwidth, phase margin, lock time and spurs.