Increasing pressure on production costs and, more generally, time to market, have impacted all levels of IC design. In this context, one of the major challenges is to avoid silicon failure or yield ...

We are now more than a decade intothe 21st century, and on an ever-acceleratingfast track to technologicalinnovation in electronics.The transistor and progression intothe IC, or microchip, lit the ...

The design and optimisation of analog-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-analog converters (DACs) play a pivotal role in modern electronic systems, bridging the gap between the analog real world ...

Audio IC supplier Wolfson Microelectronics of the U.K., partnered with Japan's Sanyo, is prepping a mixed-signal device for next-generation automotive entertainment systems. This audio chip will tap ...

An optimized, basic op amp offers precise sensor-output performance while negating temperature-induced drift and errors.

When it comes to getting signals from an analog world into our computers, most of us don’t give much thought to how the hardware that does the job works. But as it turns out, there are a number of ...

Voltage-controlled oscillator-based analog-to-digital converters (VCO-based ADCs) represent an emerging class of digitisation circuits that harness the frequency-modulating properties of VCOs to ...

This 555 timer based circuit is a kind of voltmeter, also an analog to digital converter, that converts the analog input voltage to digital output pulses. The output pulse width is proportional to the ...

Ground loops can degrade circuit performance and ruin your day. Follow these tips to prevent them from occurring in circuits ...