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Cortex-M0+ is not the newest small, low-power processor and, in fact, some newer offerings may surpass it. However, its broad deployment and mature environment continue to make the processor a compelling offering for low-power applications. So, ...

If you need a very pure sine wave in the audio range, the circuit in Figure 1 can help. It is a simple deal: A sine wave with a THD of 1% coming from a function generator that goes through a trackable low-pass filter, which attenuates the ...

When current pulses with a stable I HIGH /I LOW ratio modulate a semiconductor junction, the ensuing voltage difference (for example, ΔV BE for a bipolar transistor) is a linear function of the absolute (Kelvin) temperature, T. You can use ...

The circuit in Figure 1 seems utterly simple but demonstrates unusual behavior. It produces an almost square wave of odd-integer quartz harmonics, including its main frequency. Figure 1. A simple circuit that produces an almost square wave ...

Simulating the output-offset current of a current mirror is straightforward. You simply have to apply an input current, measure the output current, and calculate the difference. This output-offset current, however, is not equal to the input-offset ...

Nearly four decades ago (in his Designs for High Performance Voltage-to-Frequency Converters, Ref. 1 ), famed designer Jim Williams cataloged five fundamental techniques for voltage to frequency conversion. One of those five is reproduced in Figure ...

With the addition of a few inexpensive miniature components, the hard-wired, voltage-controlled current source of yesterday becomes a software-programmable voltage-controlled current source (Figure 1). A digital potentiometer, IC 1 in conjunction ...

An instrumentation amplifier offers precise gain without feedback resistors, and, at any value of gain, it provides high input impedances at its noninverting and inverting inputs. In a typical IC instrumentation amplifier, a single resistor that ...

This is the Microchip MCP41xxx digital potentiometer data sheet that includes (on page 15, their Figure 4-4) an interesting application circuit comprising a Dpot controlled amplifier with pseudologarithmic gain settings. However, as explained in ...

Designers charged with creating precision analog front ends and signal chains know that the performance of the voltage reference whether a discrete standalone device or one that’s embedded in a component such as the analog-to-digital ...