Oscilloscopes and How to Use Them
Twelve things to look for in an oscilloscope and best practices for power-integrity measurements are just some of the webinars in this series.
View ArticleElectronic Design Products of the Week (9/9-9/13)
A ruggedized Hall-effect sensor... a connector for outer space... industrial camera accessories—here are more of the latest analog-related components making news.
View ArticleBroadcom Says Core Chip Business Has Hit Bottom
Broadcom shares have slipped nearly 5% since the company said on Thursday that its core chip business has bottomed out but was unsure when it will start to recover from the slowdown. The San Diego,...
View ArticleWood-Based 3D-Printed Sensors Include Wireless Access
Leveraging a previously developed technique, researchers developed sensors that are printed on cellulose and can be read wirelessly using a VNA.
View ArticleTexas Instruments Targets LDO at Small-Battery Systems
Texas Instruments slashed the standby current of its latest linear dropout regulator (LDO), aiming to more than double the battery life of compact devices ranging from portable medical and consumer...
View ArticleMechanical Engineers Should Design Our Interfaces
A return to common sense: The systems knowledge and versatility of mechanical engineers make them more suited than programmers and EEs when it comes to practical interface design.
View ArticleA Clever Voltage-Fed Half-Bridge Converter Architecture
If push (or push-pull) comes to shove, you can put the buck regulator on the bottom of a cascaded converter design.
View ArticleUse Resonance with a High-Voltage Piezo Driver
By exploiting a PZT’s impedance, this series-resonant technique basically transforms a high-current piezo amplifier into a high-voltage piezoelectric driver.
View ArticleQualcomm Buys TDK's Stake in RF Business for $1.15 Billion
Qualcomm is spending $1.15 billion to buy out the radio frequency chip business it operated with TDK, looking to supply a broader range of components for 5G handsets and other devices. The San Diego,...
View ArticleWEBENCH Power Designer: From Floppy Disk to the Cloud
The venerable tool has been substantially overhauled, especially when it comes to the user interface. But what’s the story behind WEBENCH’s creation? Find out how it all started and what the enhanced...
View ArticleSimple Charge Pump Boosts Input Voltage by 50%
This charge-pump circuit, using just a few diodes and capacitors, ups the input voltage by a factor of 1.5 in contrast to the usual voltage-doubling output.
View ArticleLiquid-Metal Triboelectric Nanogenerator Harvests Body Motion
Researchers developed a friction-based transducer comprised of liquid metal and a polymer-layer sandwich that can harvest energy of low-frequency motion, such as from a body.
View ArticleAn Enlightening Dimmer Switch Teardown
Older dimmer switches can’t power electronic bulbs, much less a dead short. Paul Rako tears one down to illuminate why that’s the case.
View ArticleBuck-Boost Converters Shrink Solution Size Up To 25%
Texas Instruments rolled out its latest line of buck-boost converters that deliver up to 2.5 A and enable up to 25% smaller power supply solutions in industrial and consumer Internet of Things devices....
View ArticleComparing isolated amplifiers and isolated modulators
This document compares isolated amplifiers and isolated-modulator-based solutions and explains some unique advantages of isolated-modulator-based solutions.
View ArticleA closer look at Shunt- and Hall-based current-sensing solutions
This document compares various isolated current-sensing methods based on several aspects such as performance, cost, and ease of implementation in OBCs and DC/DC converters.
View ArticleJerry, Bob, and the Optoelectronic Pulse Amplifier
A behind-the-scenes look at how the first commercial optically coupled integrated circuit was created by LED inventor James “Bob” Biard and the inventor of the first digital handheld calculator, Jerry...
View ArticleShape-Shifting Origami Surface Yields Dynamically Tunable RF Filter
Using dipoles printed with silver ink on a pre-scored folder substrate paper, a Georgia Tech team devised a scheme for RF filters of various types that can be tuned by adjusting the origami-based...
View ArticleA Better Transformer Equivalent Circuit
Precision transformer circuits play key roles in applications such as TRA bridges. Here’s an equivalent circuit that surpasses most others when looking to meet those accuracy demands.
View ArticleWho Really Did Invent the Transistor?
The trio credited with the milestone may not be a threesome after all. With that in mind, how accurate are the accounts regarding other famous discoveries in electronics, and their inventors?
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