By Chi-Ping Hsu A new year approaches and with it comes fresh new challenges for design engineering teams and for us as key ecosystem partners. The biggest challenge that we face as an industry is one that has begun to form in recent years and will fully flower in the coming year: How do we […]
Quiz Day Friday: Electronics and Electrical
As Friday returns, so does Quiz Day Friday — curiously captivating quizzes from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online community members including: 3vO,DerStrom, Ian Rogers, Pommie, Roman Black, Reload Ron, JimB, MrAl, and ericgibbs. Electro-Tech-Online is an electrical engineering membership forum where you can ask questions and get answers from your fellow engineers on topics such as radio communications, microcontrollers, PCB design, and more. And […]
Top analog threads this week from EDAboard.com
Gain and phase margin for transimpedance amplifier – I am designing a transimpedance amplifier with variable resistive feedback gain. I have a problem with simulating gain and phase margin. For the test input signal I am using an AC current source and perform an AC simulation. When I plot the magnitude, I get a transimpedance […]
Quiz Day Friday: Electronics and Radio
Welcome — or welcome back — to Quiz Day Friday and Quiz V6.0: Electronics and Radio. If this is your first Quiz Day Friday, then you might want to catch-up on the five previous quizzes: Quiz V1.0 on General Electronic and Electrical Engineering Quiz V2.0 on Common Engineering Abbreviations Quiz V3.0 Electronic and Electrical Engineering – Intermediate […]
Quiz Day Friday: C Language Programming
Welcome back to Friday and Quiz V5.0: C Language Programming. New to you? (Not the language…the quiz) If this is your first Quiz Day Friday, then you might want to check out the four previous quizzes: Quiz V1.0 on General Electronic and Electrical Engineering Quiz V2.0 on Common Engineering Abbreviations Quiz V3.0 Electronic and Electrical Engineering – Intermediate […]
Quiz Day Friday: Computer History
Welcome back to Friday and Quiz V4.0: Computer History, a real blast from the past . If this is your first Quiz Day Friday, then you might want to check out the three previous quizzes: Quiz V1.0 on General Electronic and Electrical Engineering Quiz V2.0 on Common Engineering Abbreviations Quiz V3.0 Electronic and Electrical Engineering – […]
Quiz Day Friday: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Welcome back to Friday and Quiz V3.0: Electronic and Electrical Engineering. This is the intermediate level of Quiz V1.0 on General Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Sandwiched in between is last week’s Quiz V2.0 on Common Engineering Abbreviations. Feel free to catch-up… This is the third of 10 quizzes each with 10 questions from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online […]
Quiz Day Friday: Common Engineering Abbreviations
Welcome back to Friday and Quiz V2.0: Common Engineering Abbreviations. If you missed our kickoff last Friday, then catch up by taking Quiz V1.0: General Electronic and Electrical. No, it’s not a prerequisite but some of us like order. This is the second of 10 quizzes each with 10 questions from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online community […]
Quiz Day Friday: General Electronic and Electrical
Now that your week is winding down, it’s time to slowly transfer activity from those hyperactive brain circuits into the weekend. To help you along, we are kicking off Quiz Day Friday with the first of 10 quizzes each with 10 questions from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online community members including: 3vO, DerStrom, Ian Rogers, Roman Black, Reload […]
Low Power Conversion for Energy Harvesting
by Tony Armstrong, Director of Product Marketing, Linear Technology Corporation There is plenty of ambient energy in the world around us and the conventional approach for energy harvesting has been through solar panels and wind generators. However, new harvesting tools allow us to produce electrical energy from a wide variety of ambient sources. Furthermore, it is not the […]