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New 100BASE-T PMD Jig Prototype

At the IOL, we have been using the same style jig for our 100BASE-T PMD (Clause 25) test system for many years which allows us to interface a 100BASE-T device to our digital oscilloscope.  The jig is made up of an RJ45 connector contained in a plastic sleeve, a PCB that has all the components mounted on it, and the TX and RX pairs are routed through the board to SMA... More

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MIPI Battery Interface Charges Up

Battery life is one of the most important characteristics of a mobile device. No one wants to be chained to a power outlet. But batteries charge and discharge differently based on environmental factors. To help address this issue, the MIPI Alliance has created a new single wire interface for communicating with batteries within a mobile device. In February 2012, the MIPI Alliance announced... More

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URC Presentation on the Redesign of Extended Sockets

Hello, I am Patrick MacArthur, Student Technician at the UNH-IOL and University of New Hampshire (UNH) Senior in the CS Department. I am participating in the 2012 Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). The URC is a celebration of academic excellence at UNH. The URC project that I will be presenting is a redesign of the protocol underlying Extended Sockets (EXS). Network programming is... More

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Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) - "Architected for Performance"

NVM Express is a specification for accessing solid-state disks (SSDs) over a PCI Express bus, which essentially means it has a register level interface that allows host software to communicate with a non volatile memory system for local storage. NVMe STRUCTURE: (Diagram source: Peter Onufryk, Director of Engineering for IDT, and Kevin Marks, Principal Engineer/Technologist... More

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Testing Challenges of Data Center Bridging Networks

Recently I had an opportunity to collaborate with several UNH-IOL colleagues and the current UNH Computer Science Department Chair on development of the article, “Testing Challenges of Data Center Bridging Networks.”  Now published in the March 2012 edition of IEEE Communications Magazine , the article was written by Mikkel Hagen, UNH-IOL and UNH CS; Peter Scruton, UNH-IOL;... More