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How to Analyze Data from a Custom PCB Sensor Subsystem

How to Analyze Data from a Custom PCB Sensor Subsystem

A quick walkthrough of how to analyze data from a custom precision sensor system.


How to Characterize Noise in a Custom PCB: Precision Inclinometer

How to Characterize Noise in a Custom PCB: Precision Inclinometer

Learn about the process of identifying and eliminating noise in data capture.


How to Design a Precise Inclinometer on a Custom PCB

How to Design a Precise Inclinometer on a Custom PCB

Learn the design steps for creating your own custom inclinometer PCB.


Projects Jan 08, 2019 by Mark Hughes
The Howland Current Pump

The Howland Current Pump

The Howland current pump, invented by MIT’s Professor Bradford Howland in the early 1960s, consists of an op-amp and a balanced resistor bridge and puts out current in either direction.


Understanding Arrays in C Programming

Understanding Arrays in C Programming

This article provides basic information and details regarding how to use arrays in C-language firmware projects.


Infineon Technologies TLE4959C Transmission Speed Sensors | New Product Brief

Infineon Technologies TLE4959C Transmission Speed Sensors | New Product Brief

Infineon Technologies’ TLE4959C is an integrated differential Hall speed sensor ideally suited for transmission applications.


Amphenol Advanced Sensors FMA Filtration Air Restriction Sensors | Featured Product Spotlight

Amphenol Advanced Sensors FMA Filtration Air Restriction Sensors | Featured Product Spotlight

Amphenol’s FMA Series Filtration Air Restriction Sensors are low profile, maintenance-free, and provide high accuracy measurement of pressure loss in automotive, industrial, and commercial air filtration devices.


Johnson / Cinch Connectivity Solutions Connectors for 5G Applications | New Product Brief

Johnson / Cinch Connectivity Solutions Connectors for 5G Applications | New Product Brief

Cinch Connectivity Solutions offers a wide range of connectors, adapters, and cable assemblies designed to meet 5G design, testing, and application needs.


Analog Devices EVAL-ADRF5044 Evaluation Board | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices EVAL-ADRF5044 Evaluation Board | Featured Product Spotlight

The Analog Devices EVAL-ADRF5044 Evaluation Board features the ADRF5044, which is a single-pole, four-throw switch with low insertion loss and high isolation from 10MHz to 30GHz.


How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

Want to get to-the-minute, location-specific weather information delivered right to your own Adafruit IO dashboard? It's time to assemble your very own SmartBrella.


Projects Dec 13, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Resolving the Signal Part 11: Understanding How Power-Supply Noise Affects Delta-Sigma ADCs

Resolving the Signal Part 11: Understanding How Power-Supply Noise Affects Delta-Sigma ADCs

Part 11 of the Resolving the Signal series explores how power supplies contribute to unwanted noise, how to measure and quantify that noise, and how noise ends up impacting system performance.


Bourns TBU-DB-Q TBU High-Speed Protectors | New Product Brief

Bourns TBU-DB-Q TBU High-Speed Protectors | New Product Brief

Bourns TBU-DB-Q series of Bourns’ TBU High-Speed Protectors are high-speed, two-channel bidirectional circuit protection ICs.


How to Measure Noise in Switch-Mode Power Supplies (SMPSs)

How to Measure Noise in Switch-Mode Power Supplies (SMPSs)

Noise on switch mode power supplies (SMPSs) sometimes gets a bum rap.


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.


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.


Amphenol SV Microwave Solderless PCB Edge Launch Connectors | Tech Specs

Amphenol SV Microwave Solderless PCB Edge Launch Connectors | Tech Specs

SV Microwave’s Solderless PCB Edge Launch connectors offer a testing solution that does not cause damage to the board and are ideal for high-frequency PCB applications.


new products Oct 04, 2018 by TTI, Inc
TE Connectivity Measurement Specialties AD-101 Series | New Product Brief

TE Connectivity Measurement Specialties AD-101 Series | New Product Brief

TE Connectivity’s Measurement Specialties AD-101 Air Bubble Detector provides non-invasive continuous monitoring of fluids for air bubbles and is ideal for medical devices, chemical analysis, food processing, and other fluid applications.


Analog Devices Energy Metering ICs with Autocalibration | New Product Brief

Analog Devices Energy Metering ICs with Autocalibration | New Product Brief

Analog Devices’ ADE9153A is a high accuracy energy metering IC with mSure® autocalibration to support Class 1 and Class 2 meters.


Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Decode an FSK Signal

Digital Signal Processing in Scilab: How to Decode an FSK Signal

Learn about a DSP technique that extracts the original digital data from a demodulated frequency-shift-keying baseband signal.


AR/VR Display Technology Roundup: OLEDs, GaN-on-Silicon, and Foveated Rendering

AR/VR Display Technology Roundup: OLEDs, GaN-on-Silicon, and Foveated Rendering

Here’s a snapshot of where our display technology is at right now—and a little bit of what is just around the corner.


News Sep 13, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois