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Input/ Output White Papers :: Secure Connect - A major leap in the cordless desktop experience

Cordless mice and keyboards – the cordless desktop – vastly improve the computing experience. They look great and eliminate desktop clutter. They even free people from their desks,...  >>  

Fibre Channel White Papers :: FIBRE CHANNEL WRITE ACCELERATION

The Cisco® MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA), which can...  >>  

iSCSI White Papers :: The Convergence of Storage and Networking

The iSCSI protocol specifies a method for encapsulating SCSI commands in the TCP/IP protocol — the messaging protocol of the Internet. This encapsulation means that the Internet, or any...  >>  

RAID White Papers :: Storage Synergies: Adaptec Series 5 Unified Serial Controllers and Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Drives

A new generation of storage controllers and disk drives is now available, optimal for a growing class of storage applications that require scalability, performance and reliability.  >>  

SAN Application Notes :: Director-Class SAN Switch

Devices Used: FPGA, LatticeSC, FPSC and Power Manager.  >>  

LCD Display Monitors Application Notes :: Automotive Graphics System

The Altera® Automotive Graphics System Reference Design demonstrates Altera CycloneTM FPGAs in a graphics system targeted at the automotive sector. The reference design runs on a Nios...  >>  

Printer Application Notes :: Optimizing AP Printer Throughput with SpeedMax

The SpeedMax high speed option package for the AP printer reduces the minimum print cycle time from 8 seconds to 6 seconds, providing a significant throughput increase. This Applications...  >>  

Handheld/ PDA/ Palmtop Application Notes :: Differentiating Portable Devices

Signal Path solutions  >>  

Desktop/ Server Hardware Application Notes :: Compact-Footprint, 60A, Two-Phase Power Supply for AMD K8 Motherboards

This application note describes a compact-footprint, low-cost, 60A, two-phase solution for desktop motherboard applications using AMD K8 CPUs. Test data, schematics, and bill of materials are...  >>  

SAN White Papers :: Virtual Fabrics - Extending Virtual Fabrics to HBAs

In large enterprise SAN environments, several mission critical applications operate simultaneously, almost always sharing the same physical network infrastructure. Storage administrators require a...  >>  

Input/ Output Application Notes :: Xilinx XAPP058 Xilinx In-System Programming Using an Embedded Microcontroller application note

The Xilinx high-performance CPLD, FPGA, and configuration PROM families provide in-system programmability, reliable pin locking, and JTAG Boundary-Scan test capability. This powerful combination of...  >>  

iSCSI Application Notes :: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

With virtually every IT department in today's corporate world facing growing user demands and shrinking budgets, storage vendors are rushing to deliver the cost efficiency of low-end systems with...  >>  

CRT Display Monitors Application Notes :: PWM East-West correction AN10294_1

Philips Semiconductors PWM East-West correction - The East-West correction circuit is an essential part of the horizontal deflection electronics in a CRT TV with a 110 degrees CRT. One part of the...  >>  

Input/ Output White Papers :: Ergonomic Keyboards

The keyboard is a crucial component of a properly designed computer workstation. One of the main emphases in designing ergonomic keyboards has been to try to improve user posture during keyboard...  >>  

Serial ATA White Papers :: SAS: The Path to Maximum SATA Scalability

The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) marks a new era in storage scalability, wherein both the type and quantity of drives can easily be optimized.   >>  

Input/ Output Application Notes :: AVR270: USB Mouse Demonstration

The PS/2 interface has disappeared from the new generations of PCs to leave the place to the USB interface. This change has to be followed by the designers of pointing devices, who should integrate...  >>  

LCD Display Monitors White Papers :: Powering organic LEDs

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are poised to break out well beyond their primary applications in cell phone sub-displays over the next several years. According to DisplayBank, a South Korean...  >>  

LCD Display Monitors Application Notes :: Avalon LCD Controller

The AvalonTM LCD Controller provides a flexible solution, which may be implemented in Altera® CycloneTM II, Cyclone, Stratix® II, Stratix GX, or Stratix devices, devices, and has the...  >>  

Desktop/ Server Hardware Application Notes :: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series

Intel offers the industry’s first quad-core processors in volume production for multiprocessor server platforms, enabling scalable performance and proven reliability for data demanding...  >>  

Serial ATA White Papers :: External Serial ATA

The need to add more storage capacity continues to explode, and a convenient solution has become more critical than ever before.  >>  

RAID Application Notes :: Adaptec RAID 51245

The Series 5 family of high-performance Adaptec Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controllers offers both high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing.  >>  

Desktop/ Server Hardware Application Notes :: Fairchild's FAN4800 Power Factor Correction (PFC) and PWM Controller Combo

The FAN4800 is a controller for power-factor-corrected, switched-mode power supplies.  >>  

Serial ATA Application Notes :: Serial ATA Storage Architecture & Applications

Today, hard disk drives for desktop PCs, laptops, servers, and storage appliances use either Parallel ATA or SCSI interconnect technology. Serial ATA is the new storage interconnect standard for...  >>  

Input/ Output Application Notes :: EASY INPUT V2.4 KEYBOARD EMULATOR IC

The EASY INPUT chip is designed to allow the transfer of ASCII data into keyboard based PC programs such as word processors and spread sheets directly from external hardware devices. It does this...  >>  

Handheld/ PDA/ Palmtop Application Notes :: Power Supply Design at Your Fingertips!

The WEBENCH environment provides the end-to-end design and prototyping tools you need to create power supplies that meet your design's requirements.  >>  

Printer Application Notes :: A printer adapter power supply for 90 Watt peak with TEA1532

The present application note describes a typical printer / notebook adapter power supply, based on a GreenchipTMII controller, the TEA1532. The features of this controller are elaborated in full...  >>  

iSCSI White Papers :: Intel PRO/1000 Server Adapter iSCSI and iSCSI Remote

All major operating systems (OSs), such as Microsoft Windows* Server 2003, Red Hat Linux*, and Solaris* include iSCSI initiators. Any Intel PRO/1000 adapter or LOM will work with the native OS...  >>  

Input/ Output Application Notes :: HANDLING SUSPEND MODE ON A USB MOUSE

All USB devices must support Suspend mode. Suspend mode enables the devices to enter low-power mode if no bus activity is detected for more than 3.0 ms. Like USB keyboards and pointing devices, USB...  >>  

CRT Display Monitors Application Notes :: 10-Bit Interface Board for High Performance Display Interface Evaluation Boards Application Note (AN-784).

The purpose of the 10-bit display interface board (DIB) is to aid in the evaluation of the AD9981 or AD9980. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the evaluation boards for these parts, and...  >>  

RAID Application Notes :: Selecting an I/O processor for storage applications

Conventional host-attached storage applications use a chipset on the host to interface via a PCI bus to an IDE drive or SCSI controller, with the host CPU running all the driver software to manage...  >>  

Handheld/ PDA/ Palmtop Application Notes :: AN10047 Handheld Devices Using the ISP1582/3

AN10047 - Handheld Devices Using the ISP1582/3. Handheld devices can be powered using either power-sharing mode or bus-powered mode.  >>  

RAID White Papers :: Emulex HBAs Outperform the Competition in Microsoft Exchange Environments

A properly tuned storage subsystem is key to extracting the highest performance possible from Microsoft Exchange mail servers. The Fibre Channel HBA is a critical link between the Exchange Server...  >>  

LCD Display Monitors Application Notes :: FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY

Industry’s Most Comprehensive Solutions for LCD-TV Displays: - Power Supplies - CCFL Backlight Controllers - High-Current VCOM Buffers - Fast-Settling Gamma Buffers  >>