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SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #62: Design your own simple I2C industrial interface isolator

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A Current Sensing Tutorial--Part 1: Fundamentals

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"Also of Interest" for February 13, 2012

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Test op-amps for input bias current

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Design: Multimode, multiband transceiver technology delivers LTE

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Calibrating amplifiers and ADCs in SoCs

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Extreme Design: When radar failure at 12,000 feet is not an option

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"Also of Interest" for February 6, 2012

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Prediction and negative-delay filters: Five things you should know

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Battery fuel gauge: factual or fallacy?

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Technical Papers

New Class of Nanopower Analog ICs Enable Sub-1V, Micropower Current Sensing Techniques

Regulators Produce Clean, Efficient, High Current Point-of-Load Power for FPGA, Server Backplanes

Keep Power Consumption in Check with Low-Power Comparators that Autosense Plugged-In Accessories

Analog Circuit Design: Chapter 3

Harvest Energy from a Single Photovoltaic Cell

Courses and Webinars

NXP Analog Switch Design and Applications

Optimized Low-Voltage BCDMOS Technology and Analog Supply Chain Ecosystem

Fundamentals of Designing with Semiconductors for Signal Processing Applications: Analog to Digital Converters

Fundamentals of Choosing and Using A/D and D/A Converters

Fundamentals of Power-Supply Distribution Topologies

Teardowns

Electric motorbike teardown

Video: Tear down that Prius!

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Compact gate drive IC simplifies hybrid, EV power train design

LED driver controller handles demanding lighting applications

LNAs target 1.6 to 3.0 GHz receivers

Wideband PLLs promise enhanced noise and spurious performance

RFaxis front-end IC assists ZigBee networks

Hi-Speed USB protectors let drivers safely recharge their USB devices

New H-PSOF power-electronics packaging touts high-current capability and high efficiency

ST overcomes LED camera flash limitations

Avago amplifier cleans signal quality and drops power usage

Wideband I/Q demodulator improves receiver performance

Commentary

Things that go “meep” in the night

Clive Maxfield

I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…

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I once worked on a project refitting a shop. The Project manager had a PC with a screen saver that ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Calling all people who care about power

Brian Bailey

Reaching out to people is one of the things that editors have to do, but I have to know who to reach out to. Should I include you?

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Interesting Idea: Stochastic Behavioral Modeling of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits

Brian Bailey

Process variation has become an increasingly challenging issue for both integrate circuit design and manufacturing, which results from the uncertainties from chemical mechanical polishing...

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This is interesting work. You might want to check out: "Monte Carlo Simulation of Semiconductors", ...

How It Was: Magnetic wire recorders

Clive Maxfield

If asked about the history of sound recording, you might think of the phonograph, the gramophone, and the magnetic tape recorder, but what about the wire recorder?

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Hi again -- thanks for the link ( http://www.gentweb.co.uk/wirerecorder.htm ) which I just added to ...

How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls

Clive Maxfield

In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...

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Some stations in the US did play reruns of "The Goon Show". The humor would fly right past you and ...

How to solve $16.7 billion product returns problem

David Douthit

The United States consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.

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I think you are letting your xenophobia cloud your judgment. The article states that over 90% of ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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This discussion no VCC and also the one on anode and cathode brings up something I've dwelled on in ...

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The dumbing down of embedded design
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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers
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Cree claims LED price-performance breakthrough
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Chevy Volt flap: What's the big deal?

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Has a radical idea ever been the solution to your intractable problem?

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Chips in Space: Lessons learned (Part 2)

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Location Is Everything: Improving Performance with Interactive LDE Estimation

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