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Why get up close and personal with a resistor when you can tweak it from a distance? Remote variable resistors make analog circuit control easier, neater, and a lot more fun. Well, we are about to ...
A software suite powering oscillators and clocks claims higher time synchronization accuracy than quartz-based solutions.
Here’s a nostalgic vibe of an awesome analog chip from the 1990s era that’s still making an impact in audio designs.
There are many options when you need to splice wires. In addition to formal two-piece connectors, there’s the widely used ...
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the Wheatstone bridge topology, excitation and calibration methodologies, and basic signal-conditioning techniques using building blocks such as difference ...
There is another analog compute-in-memory solution for math-heavy AI workloads, which is capacitor-based and achieves power efficiency above 40 TOPS/W. Analog AI accelerator startup EnCharge is ...
There is a lot of demand for the tiny speaker in smart glasses and smartwatches to be even smaller and lighter. However, the century-old micro-speakers built around a dynamic driver, coil, and ...
Tony Pialis, whose company Alphawave Semi has been acquired by Qualcomm for $4.2 billion, is a man associated with connectivity IP. But how did it all start for Pialis, who holds a bachelor’s and a ...
How does USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) technology work? What choices do design engineers have in terms of component selection? How does it relate to the USB Type-C part? T. K. Hareendran provides ...
Most electrical and electronic devices today require a method to detect tampering. In many cases, it could mean that the door of a device has been opened. This post will share some tamper detection ...
Impulse relay is a viable alternative for lighting control from multiple locations. In modernistic houses and apartments, lighting schemes to control lights from two or more locations are becoming ...
If the car battery terminals are reverse connected during a jump start, vehicle upkeep, or repair, components in the associated automotive electronics modules may be damaged if they cannot handle the ...