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Order your free samples today at band LTE and 5G applications. www.coilcraft.com. ® WWW.COILCRAFT.COM SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 VOLUME 67, ISSUE 5 IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES 18 Redesign Overvoltage Protection to Bolster Reliability and Safety Different circuit-protection technologies are used to overcome MOV limitations in certain harsh environments. A novel hybrid approach ups the reliability and safety ante to meet application demands. 18 24 Debugging Starts with Code Quality Save time on your projects by using coding standards and static analysis to help improve your code quality in the beginning, so you spend less time debugging at the end. 24 30 Attacking the Memory Bottleneck Is it time to go serial for the memory interface in servers? Microchip and IBM think so. 34 Unleash Multicore Processor Performance in Automotive Architectures Software must be parallelized and modifi ed to benefi t from new approaches to enhance hardware performance. AUTOSAR’s layered software architecture leverages MCUs to meet the latest demands. 34 38 What’s the Difference Between Conventional and Planar Switching Power Transformers? Escalation in the use of higher frequencies for today’s power-conversion applications has designers increasingly looking at planar magnetics devices over traditional transformers. 41 What’s All This Pease Prototype Stuff, Anyhow? Digging through boxes of the prototype circuits that Bob Pease had amassed over the years proved to be a fun time for all involved. COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 4 ON ELECTRONICDESIGN.COM 8 EDITORIAL 10 NEWS & ANALYSIS 47 CLASSIFIEDS 47 AD INDEX 48 LAB BENCH 41 Wearable Clinical-Grade Medical Sensors Get Even Smaller EDITORIAL MISSION: To provide the most current, accurate, and in-depth technical coverage of the key emerging technologies that engineers need to design tomorrow’s products today. 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T e Raspberry Pi was designed as a platform to teach computer As the electronics industry gears up for the eventual massive science to students. Given its low cost and wide availability, is it 5G rollout, questions abound regarding everything from suitable as a platform for commercial embedded products? small-cell infrastructure to available spectrum to handset development. https://www.electronicdesign.com/raspberry-pi-right-platform- embedded-product-development https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/can-5g- really-live-its-hype-and-why-should-you-care Wood-Based 3D-Printed 11 Myths About USB Type-C Due to its popularity, a few myths have now emerged about the Sensors Include Wireless USB interface—particularly regarding its latest iteration, USB-C Access with PD. https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/11-myths- Leveraging a previously developed technique, researchers about-usb-type-c developed sensors that are printed on cellulose and can be read wirelessly using a VNA. 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