Designing a fast reacting feedback system for miniaturized motor driven designs
A high speed, high throughput ADC accurately captures information and feeds motor position data to the controller, enabling higher levels…
A Critical Short Pulse
While there are maximum limitations of a duty cycle, which will be discussed separately, this power management tip focuses specifically…
Quiet and efficient switching regulators
A major challenge for numerous applications is the interference inherent to a switching regulator because it can generate both conducted…
Improving haptic feedback with piezoelectric transducers
Introduction to piezoelectric haptics provides the pros and cons of each and details piezoelectric transducer principles, theory, and modelling along…
Common op-amp circuits
These common op-amp circuits are useful for amplifying various analog signals. The ideal op amp model helps us understand how…
The Ins & Outs of Generalised Impedance Converters
OK, settle down at the back of the room, gentlemen and ladies! I’m back, and there’s more work to do…
Flyback Converter Without Opto-Isolated Feedback
Do you know which side of the galvanic isolation to put the controller? Should you use optocouplers or some other…
Interactive A/D mixed signal modeling via Foreign VHDL/Verilog C
In this article an analog-digital mixed signal modeling approach based on the conversion of analog Matlab/Simulink® model to C code…
GaN-on-SiC amplifier operates at up to 2.7GHz
The QPD2731 addresses the shift towards gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) with pre-matched, discrete GaN-on-SiC high electron mobility transistors.
26-bit ADC boosts CT scan resolution
The AS5900 detector interface chip allows as few as 3,200 electrons for a full-scale range at an input current of…