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TI Precision Labs - ADCs: SAR ADC Input Types
This video highlights the difference between single-ended, pseudo-differential, fully-differential, and true-differential inputs as well as the difference between unipolar and bipolar inputs and the...
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TI Precision Labs- ADCs: Statistics Behind Error Analysis
This video walks through the statistics behind error analysis, specifically covering the statistical implications of the typical and maximum data sheet specifications and how they can be used to...
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TI Precision Labs- ADCs: Introduction to Frequency Domain
This video introduces the concept of the frequency domain and how it can be used to analyze common AC specifications such as SNR and THD.Printer-friendly version
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7 Tips for Better Power-Integrity Measurements
Today’s ASICs, FGPAs, and off-the-shelf ICs have increasingly stringent power requirements. These requirements result in the need to test power rails with decreasing voltages and tighter tolerances.For...
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Optical Biosensing for Emerging Healthcare Applications (.PDF Download)
Optical sensing is one of the most prevalent biosensing techniques and, yet, we have only just begun to leverage its full capability. This article uses a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor to illustrate...
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Optical Biosensing for Emerging Healthcare Applications
Biosensing has only scratched the surface of its potential. Using non-intrusive, inexpensive sensors as part of a larger information system could be paradigm-changing in terms of consumer...
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How to Measure Current, Power for Improved System Monitoring (.PDF Download)
If you're seeking a way to measure current and power in a circuit, you need to know about current-sense amplifiers (CSAs). A CSA is a specialized op amp connected as differential amplifier with...
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How to Measure Current, Power for Improved System Monitoring
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Often used for overcurrent protection, current-sense amplifiers are now finding homes in a wide array of applications, including automotive electronic fuses and...
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Clocked Gates Determine Which of Two Pulses Came First (.PDF Download)
In many applications, there’s a need to determine the difference in arrival time of two pulses, such as those derived from acoustic signals emanating from a single moving source. In this circuit, logic...
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Gated Counter Determines Which of Two Pulses Came First
By using a pair of clocked D-type flip flops and a basic OR gate, along with an MCU’s counter, this circuit helps determine the first pulse to arrive.Download this article in PDF format.In many...
View ArticleAnalog: Still Alive and Well (.PDF Download)
Today it seems that everything electronic is digital—a reasonable assumption considering it’s hard to find a turnable knob anywhere and values are displayed in digits everywhere. The underlying...
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Analog: Still Alive and Well
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Maxim Integrated: Despite the onslaught of digital technology, analog tech and analog components are a long way from becoming obsolete, and a case can be made that perhaps...
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Voltage Reference Bests Zener Diode as Low-Current Bias Source
Zeners are commonly used as low-current sources for bias voltage functions, but the proper voltage reference can give the same result and with much-lower dissipation and no performance tradeoffs.There...
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Capacitive Touch Switches: The Ideal Mix of Interface, Algorithm, and...
Take a quick look at most older appliances, consumer products, and even medical devices of just a few decades ago and you’ll see their user front panels are covered with traditional, protruding...
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Capacitive Touch Switches: The Ideal Mix of Interface, Algorithm, and...
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Cypress Semiconductor: Technically and visually appealing for consumer and medical products, capacitive-based touch switches deliver cost-effective, fast time-to-market...
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Graphene and Gold Merge to Deliver Superior Photodetector
By layering a pattern of gold and graphene stripes on a silicon substrate, a research team developed a photodetector with high speed, wide bandwidth, and high sensitivity.Graphene seems to be following...
View ArticleIntel Moves Silicon Photonics into Wireless Infrastructure
5G wireless networks will handle much more information than what moves into and out of the remote data centers that power current 4G wireless communications. These networks will require computing power...
View ArticleA Design Solution for Next-Generation Wireless (.PDF Download)
Wireless has invaded every facet of our lives. We’re tied to our smartphones with its fast 4G coverage; we can’t live without a nearby Wi-Fi access point; we depend on Bluetooth for our cord-free...
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A Design Solution for Next-Generation Wireless
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices Inc.: Meeting the needs of advanced wireless designs—especially 5G—gets more challenging on a seemingly daily basis, but new products to help untangle the...
View ArticleWireless Controls Keep Expanding the Smart Home’s Boundaries (.PDF Download)
Consumers are increasingly adopting various wireless technologies to monitor and control the home environment. The goals of the smart home are greater convenience, energy savings, and safety. Thanks to...
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