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Analog Devices Inc. Quad-Channel Digital Isolators | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices Inc. Quad-Channel Digital Isolators | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Sampling, Amplifying, and Digitizing CCD Output Signals

Sampling, Amplifying, and Digitizing CCD Output Signals

In this article, we’ll see that the amount of noise in image data from a CCD sensor can be greatly reduced by a technique known as correlated double sampling.


Understanding CCD Output Signals

Understanding CCD Output Signals

This article discusses charge-amplification techniques and explains the characteristics of the voltage waveform that contains a CCD’s pixel data.


An Overview of Driver Circuits for Piezo Transducer Buzzers

An Overview of Driver Circuits for Piezo Transducer Buzzers

This article covers the advantages and disadvantages of several common driver circuit design techniques for piezo transducer buzzers.


Historical Engineers: Harry Nyquist, a Trail Blazer in Digital Communications

Historical Engineers: Harry Nyquist, a Trail Blazer in Digital Communications

Nyquist’s contributions were the intellectual building blocks essential to the birth of modern information theory


News Apr 06, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
US Space Force Revs Up a “Space Fence” With Wolfspeed’s Power Amplifiers

US Space Force Revs Up a “Space Fence” With Wolfspeed’s Power Amplifiers

The US Space Force spends millions of dollars preventing spacecraft collisions in earth's increasingly crowded orbit. The Space Fence, powered by Wolfspeed's power amplifiers, aims to change that.


News Mar 31, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
What Does the Future Hold for SiC Semiconductors?

What Does the Future Hold for SiC Semiconductors?

This article looks ahead to what needs to be next for SiC, where it might be applied, and how it could become the dominant force in power.


Wolfspeed 650V Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Diode | New Product Brief

Wolfspeed 650V Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Diode | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Power Engineering Catchup: Here’s What Would Have Been Presented at APEC

Power Engineering Catchup: Here’s What Would Have Been Presented at APEC

APEC was canceled less than a week before the event. What did we miss? Is there still a way for us to stay up to date on power electronic trends?


News Mar 26, 2020 by Kayla Matthews
TRACO Power 8:1 Ultra-Wide Input Non-Isolated POL Converters | New Product Brief

TRACO Power 8:1 Ultra-Wide Input Non-Isolated POL Converters | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Understanding Digital Oscilloscope Sample Rate and Analog Bandwidth Specs

Understanding Digital Oscilloscope Sample Rate and Analog Bandwidth Specs

In this article, we’ll examine two important specifications of a digital oscilloscope: analog bandwidth and sampling rate.


Introduction to Image Sensor Technology, from Photons to Electrons

Introduction to Image Sensor Technology, from Photons to Electrons

This article, the first in a series, discusses light-sensitive electronic devices called photodiodes and compares CCD and CMOS sensors.


Murata MYMGA MonoBlock 4A DC/DC Power Converters | New Product Brief

Murata MYMGA MonoBlock 4A DC/DC Power Converters | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Cypress Semi Announces USB-C Controllers to Shrink Design Footprint of USB-Enabled Devices

Cypress Semi Announces USB-C Controllers to Shrink Design Footprint of USB-Enabled Devices

Cypress Semiconductor recently announced its latest USB-C controllers that are designed to improve next-generation PCs and notebooks.


News Mar 22, 2020 by Luke James
Analog Devices Inc. High-Speed Operational Amplifiers | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices Inc. High-Speed Operational Amplifiers | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Simulating SiC MOSFET Thermal and Switching Behavior in LTspice

Simulating SiC MOSFET Thermal and Switching Behavior in LTspice

In this article, we’ll set up a basic SiC switching circuit and perform some transient simulations.


Silicon vs. Silicon Carbide: Schottky Barrier Diode Edition

Silicon vs. Silicon Carbide: Schottky Barrier Diode Edition

How does a silicon carbide Schottky barrier diode compare to its silicon counterparts? Let's look to a few examples.


News Mar 17, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
How to Simulate Silicon Carbide Transistors with LTspice

How to Simulate Silicon Carbide Transistors with LTspice

This article reviews the silicon carbide scene and then explains how to get SiC SPICE models and incorporate them into a simulation circuit.


New Motor-Driver ICs Beg the Question, What On Earth Are FREDFETs?

New Motor-Driver ICs Beg the Question, What On Earth Are FREDFETs?

The new BridgeSwitch motor drivers from Power Integrations stand out for several reasons, like its package and system monitoring. But what do we make of their fundamental label as "FREDFETs?"


News Mar 16, 2020 by Robert Keim
Gallium Arsenide (Finally) Contends With GaN and SiC in One Regard: Space Applications

Gallium Arsenide (Finally) Contends With GaN and SiC in One Regard: Space Applications

GaAs has long been the bridesmaid but never the bride. However, because of its resistance to radiation, it is still the go-to choice for space-based applications. 


News Mar 16, 2020 by Gary Elinoff