The Great Semi Debate: SiC or GaN?
SiC and GaN semiconductors are vying for use in automotive and industrial applications with performance superior to current silicon technology.A key semiconductor characteristic is bandgap that...
View ArticleNew Semiconductors Meet the Challenge of Leading-Edge Radio Design (.PDF...
Designing wireless equipment simply gets more complex each year. That statement is more accurate than ever as we enter the design phase for the forthcoming 5G equipment. 5G radio equipment must operate...
View ArticleNew Semiconductors Meet the Challenge of Leading-Edge Radio Design
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices: Cellular-band flexibility will be essential in next-gen radio equipment, particularly base stations, as we enter the 5G age. A recently introduced CMOS...
View ArticleDesigning to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy (.PDF Download)
Temperature is probably the most common physical measurement made during medical diagnosis or evaluation. Body temperature is an accurate predictor of many types of conditions and illnesses. The...
View ArticleDesigning to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: It’s hard to find a good, accurate temperature sensor, particularly when it comes to patient monitoring. However, a collaborative effort has broken through with a new...
View ArticleSingle 48V to 1V, 200A Converter Powers Microprocessors (Part 3)
A 48V to 1V, 200A Hybrid Switching topology supplies present and future microprocessor power requirements along with the ability to handle fast load transients in a single module.Download this article...
View ArticleQualcomm Introduces its First Multimode 5G Modem
Qualcomm, the largest supplier of smartphone chips, introduced its second-generation modem for tapping into 5G networks, which are projected to have speeds 10 to 100 times faster than current LTE...
View ArticleNanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range Filter,...
By fabricating a nano-MEMS honeycomb lattice, researchers developed a solid-state device that can function as a voltage-tunable filter or unidirectional energy coupler for electrical energy in the 10-...
View ArticleIntegrated Digital Support Enables Robust Power-Supply Design Flexibility
Single-chip power-supply controller IC combines analog circuits with an embedded MCU that employs 35 instructions and controls registers to store performance data.The analog and digital worlds have...
View ArticleNew Semiconductors Meet the Challenge of Leading-Edge Radio Design
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices: Cellular-band flexibility will be essential in next-gen radio equipment, particularly base stations, as we enter the 5G age. A recently introduced CMOS...
View ArticleDesigning to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy (.PDF Download)
Temperature is probably the most common physical measurement made during medical diagnosis or evaluation. Body temperature is an accurate predictor of many types of conditions and illnesses. The...
View ArticleDesigning to Achieve Medical Temperature Measurement Accuracy
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: It’s hard to find a good, accurate temperature sensor, particularly when it comes to patient monitoring. However, a collaborative effort has broken through with a new...
View ArticleSingle 48V to 1V, 200A Converter Powers Microprocessors (Part 3)
A 48V to 1V, 200A Hybrid Switching topology supplies present and future microprocessor power requirements along with the ability to handle fast load transients in a single module. Download this...
View ArticleQualcomm Introduces its First Multimode 5G Modem
Qualcomm, the largest supplier of smartphone chips, introduced its second-generation modem for tapping into 5G networks, which are projected to have speeds 10 to 100 times faster than current LTE...
View ArticleNanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range Filter,...
By fabricating a nano-MEMS honeycomb lattice, researchers developed a solid-state device that can function as a voltage-tunable filter or unidirectional energy coupler for electrical energy in the 10-...
View ArticleIntegrated Digital Support Enables Robust Power-Supply Design Flexibility
Single-chip power-supply controller IC combines analog circuits with an embedded MCU that employs 35 instructions and controls registers to store performance data. The analog and digital worlds have...
View ArticleWhat’s All This Subthreshold Stuff, Anyhow?
Operating transistors and ICs in the “leakage” zone lowers power consumption by an order of magnitude. Download this article in PDF format.Back in 1999, Bob Pease touched on the operation of CMOS...
View ArticleTrio of Tiny Gate Drivers Support Up to 200-V Half-Bridge Topologies
These 100-V MOSFET/IGBT gate drivers with differing current source/sink ratings use junction isolation and level shifting to support 200-V bootstrapped half-bridge configurations. There seems to be no...
View ArticleWhat’s All This Subthreshold Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
Back in 1999, Bob Pease touched on the operation of CMOS transistors in subthreshold mode. In his article, he pointed out that analog designers can use CMOS ICs such as the CD4007, a dual matched pair...
View ArticleNew Semiconductors Meet the Challenge of Leading-Edge Radio Design
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices: Cellular-band flexibility will be essential in next-gen radio equipment, particularly base stations, as we enter the 5G age. A recently introduced CMOS...
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