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1. On-Board Diagnostics Not Just For Racing Anymore, May 6 2013, Pallab Chatterjee, Automotive Innovation -- Let’s talk racing!

By Alan Wolke 

With the recent announcement of the world’s fastest Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from Tektronix Component Solutions, I thought it would be interesting to take a quick tutorial tour through one of the simplest DAC architectures – the R-2R resistor ladder network as shown in Figure 1below.

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1. Now Playing: The World’s Smallest Movie (Made with Atoms), May 2 2013, EDN Staff, Tech Edge -- Now this is crazy – scientists at IBM created the world’s smallest movie…using atoms!

By Ian Dees

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Getting your son or daughter to do their chores or homework every night may be a daunting task even for the most determined parent.  But go to work with mom or dad?  That’s a whole different story, especially if that workplace is Tektronix world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.

For the uninformed, the fourth Thursday of each April is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

The mobile device design world continues to adapt MIPI Alliance standards, making the need for engineers versed in electrical PHY layer compliance testing for higher-speed M-PHY serial interconnects greater than ever.

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1. How to Manage Creative Types (With a Minimum of Fuss), Apr 17 2013, M. Simon, ECN-- Attention non-creative types, this blog post is for you! After reading a Harvard Business review article on how to work with creative types, M.

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1. Measure of Chaos: When Uncertainty Runs Amok, Apr 9 2013, Ransom Stephens, Measure of Things -- “Could a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan cause a tornado in Oklahoma?” Do you know the

Quadrature signals, also called IQ signals, IQ data or IQ samples, are often used in RF applications. They form the basis of complex RF signal modulation and demodulation, both in hardware and in software, as well as in complex signal analysis. This post looks at the concept of IQ signals and how they are used.

A pair of periodic signals are said to be in “quadrature” when they differ in phase by 90 degrees.