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Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 2/14/2019 Comment now
Editor's note: Alloys can be very interesting in replacing such metals as Copper and Stainless Steel. Copper is soft, but has high electrical and thermal conductivity and Stainless Steel is strong, but has low thermal conductivity.
One of the main concerns that a traveler has to face when boarding a plane is to lose their baggage; unfortunately, there is no way to know the location of it in real time.
Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 2/11/2019 Comment now
Having worked with Brookhaven National Laboratories in Long Island, NY when I was an applications engineer for Burr-Brown and Texas Instruments, I learned a bit about semiconductor materials for use as particle tracking detectors in very high radiation environments. Radiation shielding and use of Rad Hard ICs are essential in this kind of environment.
Alain Stas, Product Marketing Engineer for Non-Linear Resistors at Vishay Intertechnology, 2/4/2019 Comment now
Whatever your applications design(s) - digital multimeter, oscilloscope, on-board charger (OBC), plug-in battery for hybrid or electric vehicles, power supply for a motor drives, etc. - it needs to include overcurrent protection. To that end, you might want to introduce a component that protects your circuit when the smoothing capacitor C of the SMPS in ...
Michael Steffes, Sr. Applications Manager, 2/3/2019 Comment now
Probably no single issue faces more high-speed signal path designers (and supplier support teams) than the risk of instability in higher speed op amps and fully differential amplifiers (FDA). Some legacy literature assumes approximations that might not be prudent. Background on how to think about signal path stability issues will be first reviewed. Some ...
Matthias Feulner, Applications manager of high-speed data converters, Texas Instruments, 2/2/2019 Comment now
Editor's note: I am happy to bring you, my friend and former long-time colleague at Texas Instruments, Matthias Feulner, one of the best high-speed communications experts in the industry
Dennis Feucht, Electronics Engineer, 1/28/2019 Comment now
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) was, a few decades ago, a relatively obscure field associated with the mathematics of numerical analysis. As computers have become cheaper and faster, it is now commonplace in cell phones, motor drives, medical instruments, and many other places, often mixed in with analog circuits. It is so common that it has moved into ...
Metastability can cause a spacecraft electronic failure. It may render a very expensive spacecraft/satellite unusable and if the spacecraft is manned, there could be lives in danger. A simple D Flip-Flop can wreak havoc in the cold void of Space. (I strongly suggest you read Max Maxfield's three-part article on Metastability in References 2, 3, and 4. ...
Bill Schweber, Engineer, Author, Editor, 1/27/2019 Comment now
I recently helped a friend install a "smart" Ecobee 3 thermostat in the second floor of his home, see "HVAC Upgrade Shows Interconnect Complexity of These "Simple" Systems". He was so pleased with its performance and the Internet-connected functionality that he decided to install another, identical one on the first floor, which is a separate zone of his ...
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