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How to Design Charge Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Sensors

How to Design Charge Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Sensors

This article explores charge-amplifier design details, including ESD protection and frequency response.


On-Chip Diagnostic Features: A Single-Channel 16-Bit DAC from Analog Devices

On-Chip Diagnostic Features: A Single-Channel 16-Bit DAC from Analog Devices

In this article, we’ll take a look at the Analog Devices AD5758, which is a single-channel DAC with dynamic power control and HART connectivity.


News Oct 23, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Infineon Automotive Solutions | New Product Brief

Infineon Automotive Solutions | New Product Brief

Infineon’s automotive solutions portfolio includes a broad range of power, interface, control, and sensor products that are designed for the harsh automotive environment, are AEC qualified, and subject to Infineon’s rigorous zero-defect policy.


Understanding and Implementing Charge Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Sensor Systems

Understanding and Implementing Charge Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Sensor Systems

In this article we’ll explore a circuit that produces an output voltage proportional to the charge generated by a piezoelectric transducer.


Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic technology has come a long way in the past few decades and continues to find innovative improvements and applications across industries. Here's a quick look at some recent haptic technology-related news.


News Oct 20, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

Small Size, nanoPower: A New Comparator from Texas Instruments

This article will look at the most important features of the TLV7031 which is a nanoPower comparator from Texas Instruments.


News Oct 17, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Power Supply Monitoring and Sequencing in a Single Chip: New Power Sequencer from Analog Devices

Power Supply Monitoring and Sequencing in a Single Chip: New Power Sequencer from Analog Devices

This article will look at the most important features of the Analog Devices ADM1266, which is a configurable power sequencing device.


News Oct 16, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Analog Devices DC2365A Evaluation Boards | New Product Brief

Analog Devices DC2365A Evaluation Boards | New Product Brief

Analog Devices DC2365A evaluation boards are designed for the LTC2358 family of buffered input multichannel ADCs.


Understanding and Modeling Piezoelectric Sensors

Understanding and Modeling Piezoelectric Sensors

This article explains some theory behind piezoelectric sensors and presents an equivalent circuit that you can use when you’re designing sensor systems.


News Brief: Microchip Releases AVR-IoT WG Development Board

News Brief: Microchip Releases AVR-IoT WG Development Board

Creating IoT projects can be an exhaustive process involving RTOS and complex frameworks. Yesterday, Microchip announced an IoT development board that aims to streamline IoT device development.


News Oct 11, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

This article presents Scilab code that allows you to generate I/Q, noise, and chirp signals from your PC’s headphone jack.


Bourns Low Ohmic PTC Resettable Fuses | Tech Specs

Bourns Low Ohmic PTC Resettable Fuses | Tech Specs

The Bourns MF-PSML series of low ohmic PTC resettable fuses have holding current ratings up to 3.5 amps in a low-profile 0805 package for mobile and other space-constrained applications.


new products Oct 11, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Wurth Electronics WE-LPCC  Common Mode Power Line Chokes | New Product Brief

Wurth Electronics WE-LPCC Common Mode Power Line Chokes | New Product Brief

Wurth Electronics WE-LPCC Common Mode Power Line Chokes are designed for high current 250VAC applications, including AC-DC converters, high-frequency DC-DC converters, LED drivers, and switch mode power supplies.


Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

This article provides an overview of what an IoT node needs for a faster and simpler implementation of robust security.


How to Use Your Computer as an Arbitrary Waveform Generator

How to Use Your Computer as an Arbitrary Waveform Generator

In this article, we’ll use Scilab to generate numerical signals that can be converted into analog waveforms by a computer’s audio hardware.


Introduction to Clock Domain Crossing: Double Flopping

Introduction to Clock Domain Crossing: Double Flopping

This article will discuss a well-known technique called “double flopping” to transfer a single-bit control signal between two clock domains.


Resolving the Signal Part 9: Reducing Reference Noise in High-Resolution Delta-Sigma ADC Circuits

Resolving the Signal Part 9: Reducing Reference Noise in High-Resolution Delta-Sigma ADC Circuits

Part 9 of the Resolving the Signal series analyzes several different methods for reducing reference noise's effect in systems and examines the difference of reference noise's impact on low- and high-resolution ADCs.


NXP Semiconductors LPC8N04 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU | New Product Brief

NXP Semiconductors LPC8N04 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU | New Product Brief

NXP’s LPC8N04 is an MCU with integrated NFC connectivity and energy harvesting capabilities.


Protect Your Personal Castle With the Gentleman Maker’s Photon Trebuchet

Protect Your Personal Castle With the Gentleman Maker’s Photon Trebuchet

In this Gentleman Maker project, we will use Particle Photon boards to power a motion-sensing trebuchet that can fend off all your mischievous intruders.


Projects Sep 27, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Vishay VOM1271 Photovoltaic MOSFET Driver | Tech Specs

Vishay VOM1271 Photovoltaic MOSFET Driver | Tech Specs

Vishay's VOM1271 photovoltaic MOSFET is an optically isolated MOSFET driver that drives its internal circuitry from the output current of the photodiodes.


new products Sep 27, 2018 by TTI, Inc