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 […]
AgileIC: Time for a new hardware design process?
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 […]
