How to enable advanced instrumentation
Design advances and merging of disparate technologies are leading to new, effective ways of remotely sensing important real-world conditions.
New fabs being built for analog, power semiconductors
Analog, power, and RF semiconductors ship in high volumes and are good enough to keep a 300-mm fab busy at…
Bringing analog circuit design into the digital age
A look at the impact of innovative new design tools for analog circuit design that make it more attractive to…
Analog debugging on bare-metal systems
The concept of streaming data from firmware and displaying it on an oscilloscope can be a powerful tool and can…
Key options for analog debugging on bare-metal systems
Streaming data from firmware and displaying it on an oscilloscope can be a powerful tool and can speed up the…
Analog IP offerings a hot commodity in semiconductor M&A
SEMIFIVE's purchase of Analog Bits shows the crucial importance of analog and mixed-signal building blocks in accelerating the SoC designs.
Add one resistor to give bipolar LM555 oscillator a 50:50 duty cycle
One resistor makes the classic 555 timer generate a symmetrical square wave 50:50 duty cycle.
555 timer IC: Still alive and kicking at 50 years
Don’t let its age fool you: this legendary IC is still widely used for simplifying new designs as well as…
Profile of a MOSFET array for always-on power operations
The MOSFET array offers precise temperature tracking characteristics to automatically adjust to changing temperatures for stable, uninterrupted operation.
Do we still need analog circuit designers?
Designing an IC is an entirely different discipline than doing a discrete circuit, as the former is not just the…