Embedded Design Techniques for Selecting Components and Sub-systems

The latest embedded system designs are delivering a variety of complex new products and services across a wide range of industries and applications. With shrinking cost constraints and growing performance expectations, these embedded designs are delivering smaller and more cost-effective solutions into a wide range of everyday items including appliances, tools, buildings, clothing and nearly everything else around us.

Central to these embedded designs is typically a microcontroller and various secondary interfaces, including examples such as power supplies, video outputs, and non-volatile memory. Quickly and easily selecting appropriate components and sub-systems with confidence is essential to reliably delivering smaller and more cost-effective solutions. To accomplish this, you need fast intelligent results from intuitive test and measurement tools.

This application note covers three applications in which specific measurement techniques were used to more efficiently select and identify appropriate components and sub-systems for embedded designs.