Introduction In many applications, it is not possible to measure distance to the target by establishing a physical contact. Typical examples include measuring presence of objects on a conveyor belt in logistic centers, or ensuring safety distances ...
Lightning is one of nature’s most intense and unpredictable forces, but thankfully, we have got technology to help us stay ahead of the storm. Lightning detectors are designed to pick up the electromagnetic signals generated by lightning ...
Applications for using a single pushbutton to advance a circuit to its next logical state are legion. Typically, there are just “on” and “off” states, but there can be more. The heart of the circuit is a toggle flip-flop ...
Abstract There is a new product type in the industry, the digital low dropout (LDO) linear regulator. It offers telemetry and adjustability of a linear power supply in a very small footprint. Such solutions are used in ultralow noise applications ...
This article will illustrate how special converters equipped with PassThru mode can be useful when the circuit’s input voltage is too high or too low to power a load. It will give examples of how PassThru mode is used with buck-boost ...
Thanks to its internal hysteresis, the highly useful Schmitt-trigger circuit accepts a low-slew-rate input signal and produces a clean, glitch-free output transition. Unfortunately, user-programmable logic devices, such as CPLDs and FPGAs, ...
Our fundamental passive and inherently analog components resistors, capacitors, and inductors are so conceptually simple and easy to describe that we often don’t fully articulate or appreciate the many roles each can play in a system or ...
A project in the UK and the Netherlands is using Large Language Models (LLMs) to create hardware designs with a technique it calls Conversational Prototyping. While LLMs are widely used for developing code, the project is exploring how they can be ...
PWM is a simple, cool, cheap, cheerful, and (therefore) popular DAC technology. Excellent differential nonlinearity (DNL) and monotonicity are virtually guaranteed by PWM. Also guaranteed are a stable zero and a full-scale accuracy that’s ...
High speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are by definition devices that sample an analog signal and, as such, must have sample clock inputs. Some system designers that utilize ADCs have observed a slower than expected startup from the time ...