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November 2008



My Toaster Reflow Oven Project - Part 1

Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:17 P GMT-06
In a previous article just over a year ago, I wrote about a concept that I had read about for electronic hobbyists to turn a toaster oven into a reflow oven for soldering.  Well I couldn't resist giving this a try when my mom mentioned to m

Signal Integrity Testing for USB

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:23 P GMT-06
USB 2.0 interfaces are becoming commonplace in embedded systems (480 Mbps for high speed mode).  I haven't seen any USB 3.0 Super Speed designs yet, but those have a data rate of 4.8 Gbps.  These types of interfaces clearly require some