I stood in stunned silence at the smoke billowing up from the hardware on the workbench. Just moments before, it had been operating as expected, before self-destructing with a sound that can only be ...

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Alligator Technologies introduced its new USBPBP-S1, a USB-controlled single channel programmable signal conditioning instrumentation amplifier and band pass filter. Extremely configurable in a wide ...

There are a lot of stupid things you can do with the ports on your computer. The best example is the Etherkiller, an RJ45 plug wired directly to a mains cable. Do not plug that into a router. USB is a ...

Measuring the signal quality of USB (Universal Serial Bus) interfaces requires that designers meet the stringent constraints of the USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) specification. Nothing is more ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a proven connectivity system. However, there are still design challenges in producing a USB hardware interface. Prime among these are face layout, power, and ...