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Planet Analog Analog semiconductor acquisitions are all the rage. After the golden age of analog design innovations spanning across the last three decades of the 20th century, an era of consolidation began with the turn of the 21st century. While ...

When you design for electronics applications, such as sensor or amplifier bias supplies or special waveform generators, a controlled constant-current source or sink circuit can serve as a useful building block. These circuits exhibit high ...

The more linear the sensor’s output, the easier it is to calibrate and to minimize uncertainty in output scaling Most analog output sensors have general specifications such as linearity (or non-linearity), repeatability, and resolution, as ...

For redundancy purposes, a number of power supplies, using ORing diodes, can work into the same load. During maintenance, when you can remove any power supply, the minimum possible power perturbation at the load is desirable. To compensate for the ...

Switching Battery Inc., has unveiled an innovative electronic method for the connection of batteries called para-series. The patent-pending para-series method is based on dynamically switching a group of batteries between series and parallel ...

A global survey by Farnell shows significant use of low-cost SBCs are being used in all stages of product development and production led by the Raspberry Pi Single board computers are increasingly being used in industrial designs and across the ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became the brains of seminal computers like the ...

Integrated circuit (IC) power is responsible for controlling, managing, providing, and distributing source voltage to electrical circuits as well as other ICs in the circuit. Basically, power ICs have the function of converting, stabilizing, and ...

Ground Plane There is much more to discuss than can be covered here, but we’ll highlight some of the key features and encourage the reader to pursue the subject in greater detail. A list of references appears at the end of this article. A ...

Despite its critical nature in high-speed circuitry, printed-circuit-board (PCB) layout is often one of the last steps in the design process. There are many aspects to high-speed PCB layout; volumes have been written on the subject. This article ...