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AVX Buys Ethertronics in Move from Passive Components to Active Antennas
AVX Corporation, one of the largest makers of passive components and interconnects, has agreed to acquire Ethertronics, whose advanced antenna systems are installed in everything from connected cars to...
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Simple Generator Provides Very-Low-Frequency/Distortion Sine and Square Waves...
The circuit of Figure 1 generates sinusoids down to very low frequencies with distortion in the region of 3% or less, yet has no feedback or gain-stabilizing components because none are needed. It uses...
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Simple Generator Provides Very-Low-Frequency/Distortion Sine and Square Waves
With a handful of low-leakage passive components and two high-impedance op amps, you can build a sine/square-wave generator with output period of a minute and more.Download this article in PDF...
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At CES 2018 Powercast, Energous to Demo Wireless Charging at a Distance
True wireless charging—delivering power to your mobile device over the air up to 80 ft. away—has been approved by the FCC, and will be on display in Las Vegas.While you were busy boxing up that ugly...
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The Front End: Filtering or Bandlimiting?
The answer will likely come down to having to deal with noise control, or stopping frequencies altogether to avoid reception collapse.“Filters are generally used to limit the bandwidth of signals,...
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Chief Executive of Texas Instruments, Rich Templeton, to Step Down
Texas Instruments said that its chief executive, Rich Templeton, is stepping down after more than 13 years in the captain’s chair of the company he turned into the largest manufacturer of analog chips....
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Hall-Effect Sensing Makes Sense in Building Automation, Portables (.PDF...
The main trends in today’s building automation and personal electronics market include miniaturization and portability, along with increasing intelligence and lower costs. Achieving these trends,...
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Hall-Effect Sensing Makes Sense in Building Automation, Portables
The low power consumption, cost-effectiveness, and smaller footprints offered by Hall-effect sensors make them strong candidates for a wide range of designs and applications.Download this article in...
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Electronic Design's Power Products of the Week (1/21-1/27)
Having trouble tracking down three-phase MOSFET driver ICs or hybrid DC/DC controllers for your latest design? Our editors have pulled together the power semiconductors, electronics, and other products...
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Enhanced Circuit Yields Versatile, Efficient Switch-Mode Solenoid/Relay...
Several years ago, Paul Rako, in collaboration with the late, great Bob Pease, wrote a terrific article about the finer theoretical and practical points of electromagnetic solenoid-driver circuits.1 It...
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Enhanced Circuit Yields Versatile, Efficient Switch-Mode Solenoid/Relay Driver
In this Idea for Design, using a comparator-based switch-mode driver circuit of a solenoid improves efficiency by tailoring the drive to the pull-in versus hold-mode current requirements.Download this...
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What’s All This Prototype PCB Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)
Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at...
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What’s All This Prototype PCB Stuff, Anyhow?
Airballs? Dead bugging? Pegboard? Toner transfer? Paul Rako runs through the evolution of prototyping boards, from the days of Bob Pease to approaches he finds most effective.Download this article in...
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Discrete Analog ICs Literally Become Nearly Invisible
TI introduced an op amp and family of comparators in its new X2SON packages measuring just 0.8 × 0.8 mm—and there's no compromise in performance. Despite the widespread use of highly integrated analog...
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Free Design Rule Checker Focuses on PCB Designs
Siemens Mentor group now offers a free version of its HyperLynx design-rule-checking software for checking printed circuit boards using the latest high-speed serial interfaces. Mentor, a Siemens...
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Matched JFETs Improve Photodiode Amplifier (.PDF Download)
Linear Technology has a good application note about using a discrete JFET to improve the ac response of a large-area photodiode. The circuit uses the JFET as a voltage follower on the cathode side of...
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Matched JFETs Improve Photodiode Amplifier
Using a bootstrapping scheme with a JFET can enhance a photodiode’s ac response, but adds unwanted dc voltage. Remedy that problem with a matched dual-JFET.Download this article in PDF format.Linear...
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The Front End: Dither? I’ll Give You Dither
The term dither means multiple things, from indecision to its application in improving resolution. So how does coffee play into it? “Are they still dithering about?”One of my technical articles seemed...
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The Multi-Switch Detection Interface: A Cure for Many BCM Ailments (.PDF...
An automotive body control module (BCM) is an electronic control unit (ECU) that manages a wide range of vehicle comfort, convenience, and lighting functions, including the central locking system,...
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The Multi-Switch Detection Interface: A Cure for Many BCM Ailments
Sponsored by: Texas Instruments. An MSDI device bundles many standard interface requirements in a compact package, giving designers more flexibility when integrating a body control module in...
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