Articles - Measurement - 7

By Aldrick S. Limjoco, Analog Devices Analog Dialogue Introduction Minimizing output ripple and transients from a switching regulator can be important, especially when powering noise-sensitive devices such as high-resolution ADCs, where the output ...

Dennis Hudgins, Texas Instruments As the demand for power efficient systems continues to grow, accurately monitoring system power and energy consumption is increasingly important and is a problem more engineers must solve. One solution to this ...

Shyam Sunder Tiwari Electronic Design Designers seeking a quick and easy frequency source often use a relaxation oscillator (Fig. 1) based on digital gates such as the 74HC14 inverter with hysteresis. The oscillator is also useful in sensor signal ...

6 applications utilizing thermally based circuits are detailed. Included are a 50 MHz RMS to DC converter, and anemometer, a liquid flow meter and others. A general discussion of thermodynamic considerations involved in circuitry is also presented.

When EDN published its first issue in 1956, electrical measuring instruments looked a little different than they do today. Howard Skolnik, a former colleague and key analog mentor from my Burr-Brown days, has always had a passion for significant ...

Bob Sheehan Electronic Design Ascertaining the relationship between bandwidth and response in power supplies isn’t easy, but this Idea for Design presents a measurement approach that helps ease the process. It’s normal to assume that ...

Ian Beavers, Analog Devices Analog Dialogue Question: I have heard that it is possible for a gyroscope heading to accumulate drift error over time. Can this happen in my IMU? Answer: A MEMS gyroscope, which measures angular rate, has several ...

By Tom Lecklider Evaluation Engineering Most electronic engineers know that a transistor's base-emitter voltage (V BE ) has a temperature coefficient (TC) of about 2 mV/ C. However, for precision temperature sensors, about isn't good ...

There was a time when it wasn't so rare to discover an unusual, scope-like object in an electronics lab. This was the curve tracer, able to display detailed characteristic curves of many components. Early models displayed vacuum tube curves; ...

High frequency Helmholtz coils are often used to generate uniform but time varying high frequency magnetic fields for a number of applications such as magnetic field susceptibility, calibration, and scientific experiment. A high frequency Helmholtz ...