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Passive Intermodulation (PIM) Effects in Base Stations: Understanding the Challenges and Solutions

Passive Intermodulation (PIM) Effects in Base Stations: Understanding the Challenges and Solutions

Passive intermodulation represents the intermodulation products generated when two or more signals transit through a passive device with nonlinear properties. The interaction of mechanical components generally causes nonlinear elements.


Measuring with Light: New Photometric Front End ICs from Analog Devices

Measuring with Light: New Photometric Front End ICs from Analog Devices

In this article, we’ll take a look at the ADPD10x series, which gives you an example of how a highly integrated IC can simplify your optical applications.


High-Speed ESD Protection: A New Line of TVS Diodes from AVX

High-Speed ESD Protection: A New Line of TVS Diodes from AVX

Components such as those in the GiGuard series can help you to protect your circuit from transient events while maintaining high-speed performance.


An Introduction to Audio Electronics: Sound, Microphones, Speakers, and Amplifiers

An Introduction to Audio Electronics: Sound, Microphones, Speakers, and Amplifiers

Learn about the basics of audio electronics, which convert sound signals into electrical signals, process these electrical signals, and convert them back into sound.


MPS Smart-Ramp Technology - A Solution to Voltage Change-Induced Audible Noise

MPS Smart-Ramp Technology - A Solution to Voltage Change-Induced Audible Noise

MPS Smart-Ramp technology helps to address the voltage change-induced audible noise issue for PC manufacturers.


Analog Devices HMC6300/HMC6301 MillimeterWave Transmitter/Receiver | New Product Brief

Analog Devices HMC6300/HMC6301 MillimeterWave Transmitter/Receiver | New Product Brief

Analog Devices HMC6300 and HMC6301 MillimeterWave Transmitter/Receiver ICs are a complete chipset for multi-Gbps operation in the 60 GHz unlicensed ISM band.


Eliminate Brushes, Reduce Noise: A New Motor-Driver IC from ROHM

Eliminate Brushes, Reduce Noise: A New Motor-Driver IC from ROHM

You can improve performance in motor-control applications by using brushless DC motors and handy driver ICs such as the BU69090NUX.


ADXL35x Series of Accelerometers from Analog Devices | Featured Product Spotlight

ADXL35x Series of Accelerometers from Analog Devices | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices ADXL35x series of accelerometers are designed for applications like structural health monitoring, or SHM, and orientation and navigation.


Comparing Voltages in (Very) Tight Spaces: A New Comparator from Maxim

Comparing Voltages in (Very) Tight Spaces: A New Comparator from Maxim

Components that use wafer-level packaging (WLP), such as the MAX4000x series, are valuable options when size reduction is a critical design goal.


Fast, Ultrafast, Soft, Standard, Schottky: Selecting the Right Rectifier

Fast, Ultrafast, Soft, Standard, Schottky: Selecting the Right Rectifier

This article is a deeper dive into the speed-related recovery characteristics of rectifiers, and how this dynamic behavior has significant effects on the circuits in which the rectifier is placed.


Fast, Ultrafast, Standard, Soft, Schottky: What’s the Right Rectifier for Your Power Circuitry?

Fast, Ultrafast, Standard, Soft, Schottky: What’s the Right Rectifier for Your Power Circuitry?

This article will help you understand rectifiers: how their static behavior differs from their dynamic behavior, and how “speed” is used as a defining characteristic.


Addressing Harmonic Distortion in Audio Amplifiers

Addressing Harmonic Distortion in Audio Amplifiers

Harmonic distortion can be introduced to audio amplifiers from many sources but reduced to levels below the threshold of human hearing.


Flexible ECG Front-End IC Serves Ultra Low-Power IoT Edge Node Signal Processing Designs

Flexible ECG Front-End IC Serves Ultra Low-Power IoT Edge Node Signal Processing Designs

As system designers search for power efficient signal conditioning components, they may find that there are very few ICs available under 100 μ‎A supply current and even fewer that include a small package variant.


Exploring UC Berkeley’s Wearable Sweat Sensor for Monitoring Dehydration

Exploring UC Berkeley’s Wearable Sweat Sensor for Monitoring Dehydration

Researchers develop a wearable sensor for detecting important analytes in sweat for monitoring dehydration.


Isolated Analog-to-Digital Conversion: A New Sigma-Delta Modulator from Broadcom

Isolated Analog-to-Digital Conversion: A New Sigma-Delta Modulator from Broadcom

Isolation components, such as the ACPL-C799, allow you to transfer data without establishing a direct electrical connection between two parts of a system.


Harmonics and THD in Audio Systems: Are You a Subjectivist or a Rationalist?

Harmonics and THD in Audio Systems: Are You a Subjectivist or a Rationalist?

THD of an audio system can be easily measured, but because the ultimate output of an audio system is a sound for humans to hear, human perception plays a role in determining what to do about THD.


Analyzing and Solving Fixed Frequency Spur Issues in High Precision ADC Signal Chains

Analyzing and Solving Fixed Frequency Spur Issues in High Precision ADC Signal Chains

This article will introduce approaches for determining the root causes of spur issues in high-resolution precision ADC applications and present solutions to solve them.


Analog Devices AD4000 Family of SAR ADCs | New Product Brief

Analog Devices AD4000 Family of SAR ADCs | New Product Brief

Analog Devices AD4000 family of SAR ADCs enable higher density, less complex signal chains that operate at lower power.


Analog Devices AD717x Family of ADCs | New Product Brief

Analog Devices AD717x Family of ADCs | New Product Brief

Analog Devices’ AD717x family of ADCs are designed for high-precision, low-frequency signal measurement.


Exploring the Pros and Cons of Silicon Carbide (SiC) FETs: A New MOSFET from Cree

Exploring the Pros and Cons of Silicon Carbide (SiC) FETs: A New MOSFET from Cree

The C3M0075120K is a low-on-resistance N-channel FET for high-power switching applications.