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What Do Clocks, Carriers, Local Oscillators, and FM Have in Common?
Sponsored by: Texas Instruments. A phase-locked loop, of course. A PLL frequency synthesizer plays a key role in delivering the precision and accuracy demanded by many applications.Download this...
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Microcontroller Efficiently Converts Sensor Voltage to Current (.PDF Download)
When taking measurements from analog sensors located at long distances, voltage drops and noise can affect precision of the readings. Therefore, a voltage-to-current (V/I) module is needed to transmit...
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Microcontroller Efficiently Converts Sensor Voltage to Current
This MCU-based circuit converts sensor outputs, which are often voltage, into a standard current signal, thus avoiding noise and loss when sending over long lines.Download this article in PDF...
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Dialog and Plantronics Make Noise with Advanced Audio Products
Since the start of their collaboration and launch of their first Savi product, Plantronics and Dialog Semiconductor continue to push forward together with product development and upgrades. Partnerships...
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Electronic Design's Power Products of the Week (10/15-10/21)
Having trouble tracking down high-speed photocouplers or synchronous buck regulators for your latest design? We have pulled together some power products that stuck out to us this week. Maybe our list...
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An Amateur’s View on the P2 (Part 3): Diode Bridge and Gain Adjust
Justin Mamaradlo continues his exploration of the P2 with a look at the diode bridge, including a modified version, and the offset adjust blocks.For Parts 1 and 2, click here and here.1. This...
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What’s All This LM334 Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
Over 10 years ago, Bob Pease did a nice video about current sources:He described a circuit that used an LM334 current-source chip as the basis for an LED driver (Fig. 1). It’s a neat circuit, where the...
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What’s All This LM334 Stuff, Anyhow?
Prompted by a comment left on one of Bob Pease’s videos, Paul Rako explores what makes the LM334 tick through his own experimentation.Download this article in PDF format.Over 10 years ago, Bob Pease...
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Mount a Photodiode to Maximize Speed
This article shows how best to mount and bias a photodiode to achieve direct coupling and optimize speed of response. Direct coupling is advantageous in many photodetector applications, such as viewing...
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Mount a Photodiode to Maximize Speed (.PDF Download)
Direct coupling is advantageous in many photodetector applications, such as viewing laser thresholds and modulation depth. I patented a very fast photodetector mount1,2 in the early 1970s using these...
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The Front End: Tell Me What Happened AND When It Happened
Getting proper data-acquisition rand measurement results may be a matter of “timing it right.” In life, it seems like you’re always either doing the wrong thing at the right time, or the right thing at...
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The Final Days…Getting to Sign-Off Faster
The final days of sign-out can be stressful and frustrating.In this white paper we review how to create customized, automated flows that help you simplify and speed up the process while still getting...
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Advancing the Art of Parasitic Extraction
Topics covered include:Review of the types of parasitic effects and why they are important: resistance, capacitance and inductanceAdvantages of the new Calibre xACT suite in solving challenges at 16nm...
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Context-Aware Latch-Up Checking
One of the biggest challenges for verification engineers is identifying and eliminating unintentional failure mechanisms formed by inadvertent combinations of geometry and circuitry.This white paper...
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Sensor Technologies Will Drive the Next Digital Age
The explosive growth of interconnected devices makes sensors indispensable and integral in digital ecosystems.The next phase of digital transformation has arrived, and it reaches to the far edges of...
View ArticleWhat’s All This BOBB Demo Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
In 1995, Bob Pease wrote a great article about a ball-on-beam balancer (BOBB) he designed. Making a servo system that can keep a ball balanced on a beam is an interesting control challenge, similar to...
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What’s All This BOBB Demo Stuff, Anyhow?
A Fuzzy Logic ball-on-beam balancer pushed Bob Pease to create his own analog version—a memorable event that segues into the always lively analog vs. digital debate.Download this article in PDF...
View ArticleBeyond the Op Amp—Designing With IC Comparators (.PDF Download)
A comparator is a great circuit because it provides a near ideal transition between the analog and digital domains. The comparator looks at two linear input signals and gives a digital output that’s...
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Beyond the Op Amp—Designing With IC Comparators
Sponsored by: Texas Instruments. Generally speaking, an op amp doesn’t make for a good comparator. To achieve optimal performance and avoid additional debugging, an IC comparator is the best...
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Preventing IoT Edge Device Vulnerabilities
Security issues around IoT edge devices are rarely mentioned in literature, however, the projected billions of IoT edge devices out in the wild makes for a vast attack surface.Security issues around...
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