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Semiconductor Mergers and Acquisitions in 2015….So Far

Semiconductor Mergers and Acquisitions in 2015….So Far

A look at some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor industry.


News Aug 15, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
A Practical Introduction to Operational Amplifiers

A Practical Introduction to Operational Amplifiers

Operational amplifiers are a cornerstone of EE design. Get your first taste of this topic through a few simple circuit exercises!


An Introduction to Negative Impedance Converters

An Introduction to Negative Impedance Converters

An introduction to the properties and purposes of a negative resistance device. Later articles will extend to negative impedances and some applications.


Build an Audio Mixer

Build an Audio Mixer

You and your friends are planning the greatest party your hometown has ever seen. Just one problem: you don't have a karaoke system. What's a great party with no karaoke? We're about to fix that. All you need are a few potentiometers and an op-amp.


Projects Aug 11, 2015 by Jacob Smith
Nodal Analysis and Dependent Sources

Nodal Analysis and Dependent Sources

The use of dependent sources when using Nodal Analysis.


Ambient Light Monitor: Understanding and Implementing the ADC

Ambient Light Monitor: Understanding and Implementing the ADC

Part 2 in the "How to Make an Ambient Light Monitor" Series. Our smart ambient light monitor will need to digitize and analyze signals from an optical detector, so it is time to explore the EFM8’s integrated analog-to-digital conversion functionality.


Projects Aug 05, 2015 by Robert Keim
Ambient Light Monitor: Measuring and Interpreting Ambient Light Levels

Ambient Light Monitor: Measuring and Interpreting Ambient Light Levels

Part 3 in the “How to Make an Ambient Light Monitor” series. The project continues by building an ambient light sensor circuit on a breadboard, digitizing the circuit’s output signals, and interpreting the digitized measurements.


Projects Aug 05, 2015 by Robert Keim
Intermediate LTSpice Tutorial

Intermediate LTSpice Tutorial

LTSpice possesses several features that can be used to test your design beyond simple transient analysis and AC sweeps. This article will go over a few advanced functions.


Transmit Temperature with Raspberry Pi

Transmit Temperature with Raspberry Pi

How to interface a Raspberry Pi to an I2C temperature sensor (TMP102) and then publish the data to a Google sheet and graph.


Basic Circuit Simulation with LTspice

Basic Circuit Simulation with LTspice

LTSpice is a versatile, accurate, and free circuit simulator available for Windows and Mac. This is an overview of AC and DC simulation, as well as how to analyze output signals.


Thin-Film Transistor Displays are the new Virtual Cockpits

Thin-Film Transistor Displays are the new Virtual Cockpits

Thin-film transistor displays are predicted to be the future of car displays. But they may be already overtaken by LCD quantum-dot displays.


News Jul 28, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
The World’s Smallest Transistor

The World’s Smallest Transistor

An international team has created a transistor consisting of a single molecule along with a small number of atoms; Moore's law may be officially shattered.


News Jul 22, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
8-bit MCUs get a Boost From Microchip

8-bit MCUs get a Boost From Microchip

The new 8-bit families have Core-Independent Peripherals, which allow the MCUs to be used in a much larger variety of interconnected CIPs that don't require a core to perform. The CIPs increase system performance with simple design and a 1.8 to 5.5V operating range.


News Jul 20, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Introduction to Arduino SPI Library with LTC1286 and DAC714

Introduction to Arduino SPI Library with LTC1286 and DAC714

Introduction to the Arduino SPI Library with example sketch for the LTC1286 12 Bit ADC and the DAC714 16 bit DAC.


Projects Jul 17, 2015 by Aaron Dennis
Build Your Own Alarm System with an LM386 Amplifier and an NPN Transistor

Build Your Own Alarm System with an LM386 Amplifier and an NPN Transistor

Build an analog booby-trap alarm system with an LM386 amplifier and an NPN transistor. This alarm system is activated by a trip sensor that sets off a screeching noise, alerting everyone and scaring off thieves.


Projects Jul 13, 2015 by Patrick Lloyd
Fritzing Takes Your Design from Concept to PCB

Fritzing Takes Your Design from Concept to PCB

Fritzing is an open-source software package that makes designing a PCB a more attainable reality.


Special Cases in Nodal Analysis

Special Cases in Nodal Analysis

This article describes certain special cases when performing nodal analysis.


Mesh Analysis and Dependent Sources

Mesh Analysis and Dependent Sources

This article describes the technical aspects of Performing Mesh analysis with Dependent Sources.


Delta/Wye Transforms: Behind the Scenes

Delta/Wye Transforms: Behind the Scenes

Delta/wye transforms allow us to replace part of a circuit with a different circuit that, while equivalent in behavior, can make circuit analysis much simpler. Here we learn where these transforms come from.


The Electron d’Or Award Winner Can Withstand A Nuclear Meltdown…Almost

The Electron d’Or Award Winner Can Withstand A Nuclear Meltdown…Almost

Microsemi's RTG4™ high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant field programmable gate array (FPGA) product family wins the Electron d'Or award...for good reason.


News Jul 03, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley