How do I reduce time-to-market? Let me count the ways… If you read enough advertising, white papers, application notes, or product descriptions you will quickly lose count of the various components, tools, and services that promise reduced time-to-market. It seems that everyone has a solution to the problem of shrinking design cycles and just when you’ve […]
Amplifier Theory: Design & Troubleshooting, Part 2
By unclejed613, “Well-Known Member” on Electro-Tech-Online. (Editor’s note: In Part 1, the author began exploring the basic building blocks of amplifiers with the goal of helping the reader “… gain enough knowledge to troubleshoot everything from a discrete headphone amplifier to a kilowatt PA system amp without too much difficulty.” No matter how complex amplifier designs may look […]
Amplifier Theory: Design & Troubleshooting, Part 1
By unclejed613, “Well-Known Member” on Electro-Tech-Online. No matter how “digital” things get in modern consumer electronics, when it all comes down to it, after all of the digital magic is done, air must be moved for you to hear the results. An analog voltage and current must be applied to some type of device that displaces air. […]
How to Select the Proper Quartz Crystal to Meet Your Design’s Timing Budget
by IDT There are five timing budget parameters which influence the total system timing error of a quartz crystal and oscillator combination: frequency tolerance, frequency stability, aging, load capacitance; and oscillator accuracy. In this post, we will discuss the basic guidelines in selecting the proper quartz crystal to meet a design’s timing budget. Frequency Tolerance Also […]
Now Viewing: Top Analog Threads on Edaboard
Wondering what your colleagues in analog are talking about? Starting this month, we’ll share five, top-viewed threads from the Analog Circuit Design and Analog IC Design and Layout forums on our Edaboard community. From time to time, we’ll also share some of the top 10 most active threads, as well as point you to select unanswered threads […]
Intel IDF2014: Sensing the Internet of Things
At the Intel IDF2014 technical conference for makers, developers, and creators held in San Francisco last week, you got the sense that analog is the new revolution in digital. From the Internet of Things to wearable computing to smart consumer products, sensors play a rapidly growing role in those billions of connected devices acquiring, transmitting, and analyzing data — Big Data. Intel’s […]