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The basics of testing op amps, part 4:Testing op amps requires stable test loops

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Multichannel DDS enables efficient FSK/PSK modulation

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Leadless SMD packages: great performance on a small surface area

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SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #65: Tracking down spurious signals in high-speed DACs

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How to engineer EM circuits, Part 3: Understanding Numerical Integration

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Choose the right touch technology for your display

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Selecting PCB materials for high-frequency applications

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"Also of Interest" for May 14, 2012

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Use GPS and MEMS sensor combo for next-gen positioning and navigation

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EMC Basics #15: Use gaskets to seal and solve leaky RF seam problems

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Technical Papers

Redefining a New State-of-the-Art in Microampere Current-Sense Amplifiers

Current Sense Amplifier Performance Comparison: Touchstone TS1100 vs. Maxim MAX9634

Introduction to Noise Measurement

New Class of Nanopower Analog ICs Enable Sub-1V, Micropower Current Sensing Techniques

Regulators Produce Clean, Efficient, High Current Point-of-Load Power for FPGA, Server Backplanes

Courses and Webinars

NXP Analog Switch Design and Applications

Optimized Low-Voltage BCDMOS Technology and Analog Supply Chain Ecosystem

Fundamentals of Designing with Semiconductors for Signal Processing Applications: Analog to Digital Converters

Fundamentals of Energy Harvesting

Fundamentals of Choosing and Using A/D and D/A Converters

Teardowns

Electric motorbike teardown

Video: Tear down that Prius!

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Holt releases integrated terminal for MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1760 apps

World's first piezoelectric MEMS oscillators operate up to 625MHz ±50 ppm

Melexis rolls out next-gen automotive IC line

LeCroy pushes RT DSO bandwidth war to 65 GHz, works on 100 GHz for 2013

Agilent 6-GHz generators boast low phase noise

Second gen EV/hybrid charging connector released

Automotive application processor integrates remote-control technology, enabling safe use of smartphone-based in-vehicle infotainment

ADI unveils converters for performance and small package advantage

DVGAs promise convenience for 3G 4G communications

Innovative IC can't trap lightning, but can let you know it's coming

Commentary

Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Industrial control systems—Thwarting attacks

Carolyn Mathas

The Department of Homeland Security put feelers out to other governments in the hope of bolstering the safety of industrial control systems (ICS) and created a venue to brainstorm solutions.

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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – May 16th

Brian Bailey

Mathworks, MIPS, Imperas, Cadence, Sigrity, Kilopass, EVE, Carbon and ams made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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802.11ac Wi-Fi: Benefits of a Revolutionary Technology Leap

Tim Peters

With the new 802.11ac standard, we’ll be able to give the smartphones, tablets and notebooks we use everyday more breathing room through Gigabit-capable Wi-Fi networking. Get ready – it’s happening sooner than you think.

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5 G itself has come means what will be the next ? May be devices based on Cognitive Radio concepts ? ...

Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

Rick DeMeis

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.

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No they don't. There must be a driver, with a driver's license, behind the wheel of these ...

Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

Junko Yoshida

This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special digital edition and at events, we plan to honor 40 visionaries, technologies and disruptions that have rewritten the rules—of technology, of the industry, sometimes of society—over the last four decades.

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I suggest the co-inventors of the high-efficiency switching-mode Class-E RF power amplifier: Nathan ...

The Prague Astronomical Clock – A testimony to timeless quality

Carolyn Mathas

Last Sunday at noon I had the good fortune of being in Prague at the Old Town Hall, site of the Prague Astronomical Clock.

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Goodbye, hardwired switches and circuits: we'll miss you (maybe)

Bill Schweber

It's all sensed switches and touch screens due to their benefits; but they have downsides as well.

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David, Thanks for including that link to Bill's earlier column. I must have missed the original. ...

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Has a radical idea ever been the solution to your intractable problem?

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Chips in Space: Lessons learned (Part 2)

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Disruption in the engineering classroom

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Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful “Stuff” (Part 1)

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Location Is Everything: Improving Performance with Interactive LDE Estimation

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Planet Analog is edited by Bill Schweber, (biography is here) and focuses on ICs, circuits, and systems for analog functions, design, simulation, and debug. Coverage and content spans signal input/output (sensors and transducers, real world I/O); interfacing (level shifting, drivers/receivers); signal processing (op amps, filters); and signal integrity issues. Contact Bill at bill.schweber@ubm.com if you are interested in submitting a technical article, or have a general comment/question about the site; or check out the site FAQ here.

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