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An Introduction to Companding: Compressing Speech for Transmission Across Telephone Systems

An Introduction to Companding: Compressing Speech for Transmission Across Telephone Systems

This article introduces the analog-to-digital conversion required to compress speech for transmission across telephone systems.


Semtech RClamp0512TQ TVS Diodes | New Product Brief

Semtech RClamp0512TQ TVS Diodes | New Product Brief

Semtech RClamp0512TQ TVS diodes are AEC-Q100 qualified and use low-capacitance, surge-rated steering diodes to provide ESD protection for gigabit ethernet and other high-speed interfaces in automotive and industrial equipment.


STMicroelectronics Unveils New Affordable 8-Bit Microcontroller for STM8S001

STMicroelectronics Unveils New Affordable 8-Bit Microcontroller for STM8S001

This News Brief takes a look at the STM8S001 8-bit microcontroller from STMicroelectronics.


News Sep 12, 2017 by Robin Mitchell
Intelligence at the Edge Part 1: The Edge Node

Intelligence at the Edge Part 1: The Edge Node

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses the broad transformation underway that will make pervasive sensing across connected machines not just a competitive advantage, but an essential fundamental service. The industrial IoT starts with the edge node, which is the sensing and measurement entry point of interest.


WSU Team Designs Schottky Diode that Recycles Excess Heat from Electronics

WSU Team Designs Schottky Diode that Recycles Excess Heat from Electronics

A team from Washington State University has made a Schottky diode that recycles heat from electronics to charge a battery. But will we ever see one in a consumer device?


News Sep 11, 2017 by Tim Youngblood
Incorporating Microphone Functionality into a Robot System

Incorporating Microphone Functionality into a Robot System

In this article, we’ll look at a fairly straightforward circuit that enables a robot or other device to detect sound.


Projects Sep 11, 2017 by Robert Keim
Teardown of Schneider Electric’s Altivar Process ATV630U15M3

Teardown of Schneider Electric’s Altivar Process ATV630U15M3

Take a look at the inner workings of the Altivar Process ATV630U15M3.


Würth REDEXPERT AC Loss Tool | New Product Brief

Würth REDEXPERT AC Loss Tool | New Product Brief

Würth Electronics REDEXPERT AC Loss Tool helps designers find the ideal power inductors and ferrites for their DC/DC converter, with greater accuracy than traditional Steinmetz models.


STMicro 1200V SiC Diodes | New Product Brief

STMicro 1200V SiC Diodes | New Product Brief

STMicro's STPSC 1200V silicon-carbide Schottky diodes are high-performance rectifiers for photovoltaic inverters, EV and HEV chargers, motor drives, and other high power applications.


Transmit LO Leakage—An Issue of Zero-IF

Transmit LO Leakage—An Issue of Zero-IF

There are several advantages to zero-IF architecture that come with their own challenges to overcome. This article discusses the issue of transmit LOL and examines the techniques used to eliminate it.


Toshiba ESD Protection Diodes | Featured Product Spotlight

Toshiba ESD Protection Diodes | Featured Product Spotlight

Toshiba's next-generation ESD diodes are used for high-speed interfaces and portable devices.


Clock-Noise Impact on RF Signals for Different Receiver Architectures

Clock-Noise Impact on RF Signals for Different Receiver Architectures

This article examines the common assumption that the clock-performance requirement for an RF sampling ADC is much more stringent compared to a heterodyne approach.


Researchers Develop a New Coulomb Transistor Concept

Researchers Develop a New Coulomb Transistor Concept

A research team from the University of Hamburg has invented a way to produce a Coulomb transistor (single electron transistor). The transistor is inexpensive and has varying applications.


News Aug 05, 2017 by Zabrel Holsman
Learn About ATmega328P Fuse Bits and How to Use Them with an External Crystal Oscillator

Learn About ATmega328P Fuse Bits and How to Use Them with an External Crystal Oscillator

This project introduces ATmega328P fuse bits and shows how to set them to use an external 16 MHz crystal oscillator.


Isolation in Digital Power Supply—Why and How

Isolation in Digital Power Supply—Why and How

Digital power supplies are widely employed in high-end servers, storage, telecom brick modules, and more. For these applications, isolation is often required. This article discusses the digital isolation techniques with Analog Devices’ iCoupler products in digital power supply design.


How the Voyager Missions’ Plasma Science Investigations Teach Us About Solar Winds

How the Voyager Missions’ Plasma Science Investigations Teach Us About Solar Winds

AAC continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Voyager spacecraft by looking at the Plasma experiments. In this article, we take a look at the Voyager missions' plasma experiments.


News Jul 30, 2017 by Mark Hughes
Analog Devices’ EVAL-ADICUP3029 | New Product Brief

Analog Devices’ EVAL-ADICUP3029 | New Product Brief

Analog Devices' EVAL-ADICUP3029 is a wireless development platform for IoT applications using an ADI MCU based on an ARM Cortex-M3.


Teardown Tuesday: Induction Cooktop

Teardown Tuesday: Induction Cooktop

In this Teardown Tuesday, we are going to look at the insides of an induction cooktop!


News Jul 25, 2017 by Alex Udanis
Analog Devices’ ADAQ7980 and ADAQ7988 | New Product Brief

Analog Devices’ ADAQ7980 and ADAQ7988 | New Product Brief

Analog Devices' ADAQ7980 and ADAQ7988 are data acquisition subsystems that integrate signal processing and conditioning blocks to simplify ADC signal chain design and reduce PCB area.


An Introduction to Schmitt Triggers and the Legacy of Otto Schmitt

An Introduction to Schmitt Triggers and the Legacy of Otto Schmitt

Learn about how Schmitt triggers work and their inventor, Otto Schmitt.