A similar version of this article appeared in the May 5, 2010 issue of Electronic Design magazine. As portable battery-operated devices continue to shrink in size while adding functionality, their PCB ...

Part 4 of this series recognizes that, in spite of all efforts to keep the EMI and RFI from corrupting the sensor signals on their way from signal source to the signal conditioning instrumentation.

Nisshinbo Micro Devices has added to its MUSES family of op amps with an entry level device with a good balance between sound quality, performance, and cost. The NL8802 integrates two high-performance ...

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Operational amplifiers serve many applications, from measuring current through a shunt to converting a photoconductive photodiode’s output to a voltage. The precision ...

Modeling the performance of an analog device with SPICE is one of the standard techniques used by circuit designers to perform initial characterization and performance analysis before putting together ...

We are all used to the op-amp, as a little black box from which we can derive an astonishingly useful range of circuit functions. But of course within it lurks a transistor circuit on a chip, and ...