The field of electronic communications is rapidly expanding into every aspect of ordinary life. Detection, ...
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PLL/VCO device delivers groundbreaking low phase noise and spur performance
Increasing demands for frequency bandwidth, throughput, and dynamic range in communications ...
All-in-One power solution for automotive infotainment – single IC produces five rails directly from battery
Our connected and media driven lifestyles are a result of, or a reason for, technology’s push into ...
New, robust approach to overvoltage protection for sensitive electronic signal inputs
High demands on the robustness of electronic systems, especially in industrial environments, continually ...
Isolated pH Monitor with temperature compensation
Introduction
Knowing the pH value of a liquid is essential in many industries. Nearly every ...
Accurate, Low Power Remote Sensing Ideas
The remote sensing examples shown here feature high reliability, easy connectivity, and ...
Preventing Voltage Fluctuations Due to Power Supply Lines
When power supplies such as step-down regulators or linear regulators are used, they regulate ...
Driving a Unipolar Gate Driver in a Bipolar Way
Question:
Do you need a specialised gate driver to deliver positive and negative voltages?
Answer:
No, ...
Paralleling very low dropout linear regulators for increased output current and even heat distribution
Introduction
Each successive generation of computing systems demands more total power and ...
High voltage family of controllers reduces DC-to-DC converter cost and size
Monolithic full bridge autoresonant transmitter IC simplifies wireless battery charger design
The use of batteries in everyday devices is getting more ubiquitous. In many of these products, a ...
40V Input, 3.5A Silent Switcher µModule Regulator for Automotive and Industrial Applications
Low Noise Silent Switcher Architecture Simplifies EMI Design
Automotive, transportation, ...
Active battery cell balancing
With passive and active cell balancing, each cell in the battery stack is monitored to ...
Ensuring Data Integrity with the Internet of Things
Given the explosive growth in the number of things in the Internet of Things, it’s imperative ...
Automotive USB Type-C Power Solution: 45W, 2MHz Buck-Boost Controller in a 1 Inch Square
USB Type-C is a relatively new, high power USB peripheral standard used in computer and ...
Single IC Can Produce Isolated or Nonisolated ±12 V Outputs from 30 V to 400 V Input
Electric vehicles, large-scale battery storage stacks, home automation, industrial, and ...
What’s in Your Healthcare Monitor?
Consumers are increasingly interested in monitoring their own health due to both increased health ...
Passive balancing allows all cells to appear to have the same capacity
In the automotive and transportation marketplace, large battery stacks provide high output ...
Physical Size Allocations for RF Electronics in Digital Beamforming Phased Arrays
Introduction
Phased array radars and active electronically scanned arrays (AESA) have been ...
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF 5G
How Electronic Test and Measurement (ETM) Manufacturers Can Prepare for and Benefit from 5G
5G ...
Vehicle Tracking Systems: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow
A vehicle tracking system is ideal for monitoring either a single car or an entire fleet of vehicles. ...
2G to 5G base station receiver design simplified by innovative integrated transceivers
Base station receiver design can be a daunting task. Typical receiver components such as ...
Innovative Digital Bus Architecture Reduces Audio System Costs
Car manufacturers strive to make future generations of vehicles safer, smarter, and more ...
Every day in the Digi-Key warehouse is centred on the customer
Every day in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, you’ll see planes continually taking off from ...
Selecting the Right Supplies for Powering 5G Base Stations Components
Cellular communications have come a long way since the introduction of analog cellular networks in ...
Smoke Alarm System 2.0
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the author of the U.S. and Canada smoke detection standards, has released ...
Wireless Li-Ion Charger Solution for Wearable Devices Includes Integrated Step-Down DC-to-DC Converter
The LTC4126 is ...
Evolution of PCIe® Standards and Test Requirements
Designers of data center systems and devices face ever-increasing demands to provide faster speeds. ...
Making cities smarter and safer with innovation from the Edge to the Cloud
Smart cities bring together technology and infrastructure to improve the lives of citizens ...
Medically Wearable, Scalable & Available
The total medical electronics market in 2018 was valued at $73.3B and is expected to grow ...
Get started with smart home audio design
Smart home technology has expanded rapidly in recent years. A growing number of households ...
Power Supply Management Made Easy
By Nathan Enger, Applications Engineer, Analog devices Inc.
A power supply sequencer and ...
The Sensors Behind the GEN II Wearable Device
The population is ageing and more people need healthcare support, which is having a big ...
Gaining Better System Performance, Fault Protection, and Speed from RS-485 ICs
Since the RS-485 standard was approved in March of 1998, it has become an extremely ...
Wearable Technology Takes Advantage of Low Power Conversion in Health and Wellbeing
Once as simple as a walking or running step counter – or pedometer – wearable devices ...
A guide to developing electronic based systems – Part 3
Part 3 – Electronic hardware design
Custom built hardware design is so common that the ...
A guide to developing electronic based systems – Part 2
Part 2 – To make or to buy
Assembling components from sub-components and then combining ...
A guide to developing electronic based systems – Part 1
Part 1 – Electronic system overview
The purpose of this series of articles is to describe ...
Ultrawideband Digital Predistortion (DPD): The Rewards (Power and Performance) and Challenges of Implementation in Cable Distribution Systems
By Patrick Pratt and Frank Kearney
Introduction
The first cable systems in the U.S. ...
Five key questions for display specification
Mike Logan, Display and Input Technology Manager, andersDX
The display is the first thing ...
Functional Safety for Integrated Circuits by Tom Meany – Analog Devices, Inc.
Integrated circuits (ICs) are at the root of all modern safety systems. Integrated circuits ...
Omniscient Vacuum Cleaners are Only the Beginning
The next level of vision technology is turning machines into smart partners – ...
Connecting cities with citizens – touch is everything
By 2020, current statistics show that the number of connected devices worldwide will grow ...
Power integrity and its impact on signal integrity
The trend is ongoing: Newly developed electronic circuits must support higher data rates ...
The no-compromise solution
In multisport competitions, most athletes have some weakness in one or the other discipline. ...
Untethering Wearables with LTE
The Apple Watch Series 3 has built-in cellular capabilities which allow it to make calls ...
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