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Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation

Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation

High-speed ADCs are critical in communications, data acquisition, and signal processing systems, and require precise testing to ensure low noise, high accuracy, and reliable performance. This application note from Analog Devices explains dynamic and static test methods, including FFT analysis, dither testing, noise power ratio, and full-power bandwidth measurements, while highlighting the use of the HSC-ADC-EVALC platform with VisualAnalog and SPIController software.


Smart Monitoring Improves Distribution-Grid Reliability

Smart Monitoring Improves Distribution-Grid Reliability

In this application note, learn how smart powerline monitors help utilities improve distribution-grid reliability by measuring voltage, current, power, and power factor across all phases, while addressing challenges like aging equipment, nonlinear loads, EV adoption, and distributed generation. Using high-accuracy ADCs and mixed-signal ICs, these monitors enable real-time calculations, predictive maintenance, and edge-of-grid monitoring for faster problem detection and response.


Simplify Design and Enhance Performance with Precision Signal Chain μModule Solutions

Simplify Design and Enhance Performance with Precision Signal Chain μModule Solutions

In this white paper, learn how precision signal chain μModule solutions from Analog Devices integrate amplification, filtering, data conversion, and power management into compact system-in-package devices for communications, industrial, and automotive applications. By leveraging heterogeneous integration and iPassives technology, these solutions reduce footprint, minimize parasitics, improve dynamic range and noise performance, and shorten development time.


SIMO Switching Regulators: Extending Battery Life for Hearables and Wearables

SIMO Switching Regulators: Extending Battery Life for Hearables and Wearables

Used in hearables and wearables, single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) switching regulators extend battery life by replacing multi-inductor and LDO-based power architectures with a compact, high-efficiency buck-boost design. This white paper from Maxim Integrated (now a part of Analog Devices) explains how SIMO technology time-multiplexes energy across multiple outputs, reduces component count, lowers quiescent current, and optimizes inductor utilization for space-constrained devices.


Quad HDMI Input Fast Switching Solution with ADV7612

Quad HDMI Input Fast Switching Solution with ADV7612

In this application note from Analog Devices, learn how to implement a quad-input HDMI receiver using dual ADV7612 devices and an ADV7511 transmitter, focusing on fast switching, signal integrity, and reliable I2C control. It details bus management, tri-stating, trace routing, and termination strategies for video, audio, and line-locked clock signals, along with optional CEC and interrupt handling.


Meeting Biasing Requirements of Externally Biased RF/Microwave Amplifiers

Meeting Biasing Requirements of Externally Biased RF/Microwave Amplifiers

Externally biased RF and microwave amplifiers require precise biasing and power sequencing to ensure optimal performance, including high gain, linearity, and efficiency, while minimizing part-to-part variation. Analog Devices’ active bias controllers, such as the HMC980LP4E, HMC981LP3E, and HMC920LP5E, maintain constant drain current, generate negative gate voltages, and simplify system design for single- and multi-stage amplifiers. This application note details circuit implementation, VGATE and VNEG adjustments, daisy-chain operation, and protection features, enabling reliable, consistent amplifier performance with reduced external components.


HDMI Made Easy: HDMI-to-VGA and VGA-to-HDMI Converters

HDMI Made Easy: HDMI-to-VGA and VGA-to-HDMI Converters

HDMI-to-VGA and VGA-to-HDMI converters enable seamless integration between legacy analog displays and modern digital devices, supporting applications in laptops, projectors, automotive infotainment, and multimedia hubs. In this white paper, learn how these converters manage technical challenges such as EDID communication, DE signal regeneration, and color space conversion while ensuring synchronized audio and video streams. Using integrated solutions like the ADV7513, ADV7611, AD9983A, and SSM2604, the converters provide low-power, scalable, and easy-to-implement designs for diverse HDMI-enabled systems.


DC Energy Metering Applications

DC Energy Metering Applications

Used in electric vehicle charging stations, sustainable microgrids, and high-efficiency data centers, precision DC energy metering is critical for accurate billing and reducing CO2 emissions, but traditional AC-side measurements and technical challenges like shunt self-heating and the Seebeck effect often limit performance. This white paper from Analog Devices details a design utilizing the ADA4528 zero-drift amplifier and AD7779 24-bit ADC to overcome measurement drifts and achieve 0.5% class accuracy across a wide dynamic range.


Overvoltage Protection for Power Semiconductors in Solid-State DC Breakers for BESS and Datacenter Applications

Overvoltage Protection for Power Semiconductors in Solid-State DC Breakers for BESS and Datacenter Applications

Learn how TVS diodes protect power semiconductors in solid-state DC breakers through surge thermal modeling, with insights on switching behavior, packaging, and design optimization.


Poster: What T&M Instruments Do You Need to Test Your Device?

Poster: What T&M Instruments Do You Need to Test Your Device?

Choosing the right test equipment can make or break your design workflow. This quick-reference poster helps you identify the best R&S instruments for your application — from signal analysis to power measurements.


Next-Generation Wearable Electronics: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Trends

Next-Generation Wearable Electronics: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Trends

Explore the latest innovations, challenges, and future trends shaping next‑generation wearable electronics—from advanced materials to AI‑powered sensing. Download the white paper to see what’s driving the future of wearable technology.


MHO/DHO5000 Series Digital Oscilloscope Application Guide for Bode Plot Function

MHO/DHO5000 Series Digital Oscilloscope Application Guide for Bode Plot Function

Download the application guide to master Bode plot analysis and optimize the stability of your switching power supply designs.


The Electrical Engineer’s Desk Guide

The Electrical Engineer’s Desk Guide

Bridge the gap between PCB manufacturing and real-world electronics design with Summit Interconnect’s Electrical Engineering Desk Guide, covering fabrication, stack-up, EMI, power delivery, and regulation fundamentals that drive manufacturable, high-performance hardware.


Enabling Fast Electric Vehicle Charging Tutorial

Enabling Fast Electric Vehicle Charging Tutorial

This tutorial explains how rising electrification is driving the need for ultra-fast, scalable EV charging systems that operate at higher power levels while maintaining efficiency and safety. It describes advanced power conversion architectures, including three-phase PFC and isolated DC-DC stages using DAB and LLC topologies, along with integrated power modules and liquid cooling to manage thermal stress. The tutorial concludes by highlighting onsemi’s SiC-based solutions as key enablers for efficient, megawatt-class charging infrastructure built on modular, future-ready designs.


A Signal Integrity Guide to HSD PCB Design

A Signal Integrity Guide to HSD PCB Design

Download this comprehensive guide and get a blueprint for mastering Signal Integrity fundamentals in complex, high-speed PCB systems.


Efficiency and Reliability with Silicon Carbide JFETs: A Practical Guide for Power Engineers

Efficiency and Reliability with Silicon Carbide JFETs: A Practical Guide for Power Engineers

This white paper explores how SiC JFETs are stepping into future-proof applications from data centers and renewable energy to advanced protection circuits.


High Density Power Conversion: More Power in Less Space

High Density Power Conversion: More Power in Less Space

EV sales for both pure battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are accelerating rapidly.


Innovative Reliable Power Solutions for Mission Critical Applications

Innovative Reliable Power Solutions for Mission Critical Applications

A collection of technical resources aimed at educating users on the benefits of using modular power in aerospace, defense, and space applications.


Fast and Reliable Power Measurements in Satellite Industry

Fast and Reliable Power Measurements in Satellite Industry

In the satellite sector, components, subsystems and entire satellites must be qualified in a thermal vacuum chamber before they can be used in space. With the adoption of new, higher frequency bands and accuracy requirements, precision is key. This document explores a new practical approach for reliable power measurement for these tasks.


Understanding Power Integrity in PCB Design: Power Analyzer by Keysight

Understanding Power Integrity in PCB Design: Power Analyzer by Keysight

This white paper explores the importance of power integrity in PCB design and demonstrates how the Power Analyzer by Keysight, integrated with Altium Designer, helps engineers identify and resolve voltage drop and current density issues early in the design process.