Thunderbolt: Good industry-standard intentions undone by proprietary implementations
Industry standardization may sound good when it rolls off company reps’ tongues, but a dearth of hardware and software interoperability renders it nothing more than meaningless hype.
A short primer on OTRA and OTIA amplifier devices
OTRAs/OTIAs perform current-to-voltage conversion, much like a resistor, but they exhibit enhanced input and output characteristics.
Analyzing energy loss in a capacitor circuit
Deriving the energy loss of a circuit via two different analysis methods and coming to the same interesting conclusion.
Metrics are good, but insight is best
Answering the questions "Will my schematic fit on the given PCB area?" and "How long will it take to do the layout?" with a statistical approach.
Variable attenuators for receiver sensitivity testing
The goal of receiver sensitivity test is to determine the lowest power signal a receiver can detect under a variety of conditions.
Benchmarking memory on an inexpensive PC
How do system memory speed, per-module capacity, and total system capacity affect PC performance results? The answer, as always, is "it depends".
A short primer on analog current conveyor circuits
Current conveyor (CC) circuits allow a relatively small variation in voltage and are used in a variety of complex electronic applications.
Managing chaos
Using simple quality analysis and control with XmR charts to monitor critical processes continually without personal bias.
Streaming music reception: Implementation differentiation
20+ year old tech devices still hold a special place in this engineer's heart, one that newer offerings haven't (yet, at least) been able to replace.
A look at conical inductors
An analysis of a conical coil as the RF choke in a bias-tee.