This moral of this story: any promises of protection and safety should be double-checked for validity. Surge (over-voltage) protection is a rather frequent function, but implementing it robustly is not a very simple task. Recently, I stumbled upon ...
We’ve come to expect the U.S.-based global positioning system (GPS) to be available and ubiquitous for the countless military, commercial, and consumer applications dependent on it. Its diverse uses represent a huge leap from its original ...
How to deal with the reality that a standard buck controller power stage won’t work for negative-input conversion. Telecommunications equipment, industrial test and other applications require a negative input to negative output voltage ...
Magnetic cores had some interesting uses, but a lot has changed in memory technology. This iteration of Electronic Design: Now and Then was inspired when I was reading Using Magnetic Cores in Computers from our archives. This article was originally ...
AI might be replacing jobs at an exponential rate, but a significant percentage of people would not only be OK with AI co-workers, but an AI boss. That’s according to a Quinnipiac University national poll which surveyed usage, experience, and ...
At a time when AI data centers are expanding astronomically to provide the otherworldly computing power needed to train AI models, you might be wondering about the psychological effect of exposing ourselves to an artificial entity that’s ...
There are several ways to evaluate the bandwidth of a signal in the time domain and frequency domain. Previously we looked at the classic relationship of rise time (t R ) and bandwidth (f 3dB ) [ Ref 1 ], captured by this equation: Eric Bogatin ...
The term bandwidth is used and abused in many situations. I recall one meeting where the word was used to refer to: the frequency content of a particular signal, the frequency response of a specific circuit, the speed of our local area network and ...
This design based on an SR latch and two RC networks is, unlike many alternative solutions, neither complex nor expensive. Single and differential capacitance sensors are widely used to measure linear and angle displacement, pressure, proximity, ...
Multicore processing boosts performance and energy efficiency in many coding situations. Bare-metal algorithms further enhance these benefits. Many embedded firmware engineers have seemingly not yet tried multicore processing. Using processors with ...