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Wireless Controls Keep Expanding the Smart Home’s Boundaries
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As the intelligence quotient of homes pushes higher, demand soars for related products. To keep pace, designers need low-cost simple solutions for their designs, such as...
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The Chronicles of GND (Part 3): Push Me, Pull Me—When Supply Currents Go Rogue
What is The Kirchhopamp Protocol and why is the output stage perhaps the key player when dealing with op-amp supply current? Kendall Castor-Perry, aka "The Filter Wizard," breaks it all down.Last time,...
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Most Electronic Devices Have a Pulse. You Want to Avoid Skipping a Beat.
Almost every electronic device needs to keep track of time to function. Tiny electronic clocks allow the instructions vital to the operation of chips and circuit boards to get where they need to go at...
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What’s All This Hassler Spice Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
Back in May 1995, Bob Pease wrote an article about the “hassler” circuit used by analog great Bob Widlar. The circuit sensed loud voices and would emit a near-ultrasonic squeal to dissuade further...
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What’s All This Hassler Spice Stuff, Anyhow?
Spice simulations demystify a long-lost Bob Widlar circuit that’s meant to annoy the annoying. Paul Rako takes us through the process step by step. Download this article in PDF format.Back in May 1995,...
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On Semiconductor Takes Majority Stake in Wafer Fab
On Semiconductor announced it would take over the majority of a shared factory to help meet mounting demand for power and analog semiconductors. The company said on Monday that it would pay Fujitsu...
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Processes Combine to Deliver 16-Channel Beamforming Ultrasound Pulser IC
Analog, low-voltage digital, and high-voltage drive circuity merge to form the core of of this single-chip ultrasound pulser with beamforming control. Ultrasound testing is a non-invasive, safe, and...
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An Illuminating Look at LED Driving (.PDF Download)
Light-emitting diodes have become the lighting source of choice for almost all illumination applications. Incandescents, fluorescents, CFLs, and other types are fading away in favor of the almighty...
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An Illuminating Look at LED Driving
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: The LED is the dominant lighting solution today, but the processes involved in driving and dimming them are more sophisticated than you perhaps thought.Download this...
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Boreas Technologies Targets Haptics in High Definition
Tired: haptic technology that causes smartphones to vibrate with new message alerts. Wired: haptic technology that recreates the sensation of pressing a physical key on a touchscreen. Inspired:...
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The Semiconductor Industry Is in Transition
“Monetizing Semiconductors, From Silicon to Services,” a white paper, looks at the present state of the semiconductors and notes changes that are about to occur. Companies are beginning to acknowledge...
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Conquering Underwater-Communication Challenges with Electro-optics, Radar
Researchers are making progress on enhancing communications between two undersea nodes, or from below the surface to the above air, using advanced electronic, optical, and even sonar/radar...
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Download Electronic Design's New Buying Guide for Ambient Light Sensors
From the Editor's of Electronic Design ---- This guide features articles that will help you choose the right ALS product. The number of optical sensors (e.g. Ambient Light Sensors) in smartphones is...
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PCB Designer’s Intro to Lesser-Used DC-DC Regulation Methods
Here’s a rundown of some approaches that may come in handy when you need to solve a power-regulation issue in a not-so-standard fashion. Power needs regulating. It doesn’t usually come in the form we...
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Behind the ADC Veil: Demystifying Common DC Specifications (.PDF Download)
As its name implies, the function of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is to convert analog signals to digital representations for processing by a microcontroller (MCU), field-programmable gate...
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Behind the ADC Veil: Demystifying Common DC Specifications
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: What are the real-world numbers? Though many datasheet specifications are guaranteed, certain parameters are listed as typical values without minimum and maximum...
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Tearing Down the Philips MP3 Player
This rather cluttered design isn’t easy to build. Paul Rako reveals what he discovered in his foray into “zombie electronics.” I got this Philips GoGear MP3 player at the Singapore airport back in 2007...
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MEMS-Based IMUs Accelerate the “Internet of Moving Things” (.PDF Download)
It’s understandable to think of the Internet of Things (IoT) as composed primarily of sensors that are fixed in place and continuously measure and report on temperature, motion, pressure, activity, and...
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MEMS-Based IMUs Accelerate the “Internet of Moving Things”
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices: Equipped with three-axis gyroscopes and accelerometers, MEMS-based inertial measurement units target applications related to the IoMT.Download this article in...
View ArticlePocket-Sized White-Noise Generator Quickly Tests Circuit’s Response (.PDF...
The behavior of analog circuits can often be characterized by sweeping their inputs with a signal going across a range of frequencies and then observing the output. These sweeps can be composed of...
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