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What Vishay’s New Power Stage Teaches Us About Reverse Recovery

Modern power devices rely on small on-state resistance and fast reverse recovery. What's behind the power stages driving these two key characteristics?

July 20, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar

Behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the Company Developing Brain-Machine Interfaces

What's going on at the silicon level of Elon Musk's human brain-machine interface?

July 20, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons

Wi-Fi Is a Power Guzzler. New Multi-Protocol Modules May Change the Game of Battery-Based IoT

Wi-Fi's high power consumption represents a serious challenge to battery-powered IoT products. But this may no longer be a problem with the digitally-dominant advanced radio architecture of two new modules from Innophase.

June 09, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar

ADI Makes Big Swing for Industry 4.0 with First Software-Configurable Industrial I/Os

Two new I/O solutions bring remote programmability to building control and industrial automation.

May 29, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

Smart Speakers Digitize All Input, Zap Battery. A New ML Analog Chip Has “Selective Hearing”

Always-on devices zap battery when digital processors analyze 100% of input. A machine-learning analog chip can save power by only activating for selective input.

May 15, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

The Virtues of PWM Combined With a Power MOSFET

Pulse Width Modulation is a method commonly used to generate an analog signal output from digital input. But how is this feature enhanced when combined with a power MOSFET in a single device?

May 06, 2020 by John Koon

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

April 06, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

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?

March 26, 2020 by Kayla Matthews

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.

March 22, 2020 by Luke James

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.

March 17, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

Analog Discovery 2 vs. Other PC-Based Oscilloscopes. Is AD2 Worth the Hype?

Analog Discovery 2 is called the "one tool with many functions." But how does it hold up against analogous T&M devices in the industry?

March 12, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar

How Do You Design an LC Low-Pass Filter for a Class D Amp?

What's the role of low-pass filters in class D amplification? We'll use ST's new class D amp to discuss this question.

March 09, 2020 by Robert Keim

Hyundai and Analog Devices Team Up for “Industry’s First All-digital Road Noise Cancellation System”

Analog Devices' Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) technology uses a daisy-chain topology and combines power and data into a single twisted pair.

January 29, 2020 by Robin Mitchell

New Isolator IC from Analog Devices has Integrated DC-DC Conversion

The ADuM642x series offers four independent isolation channels and is suitable for high-temperature industrial environments.

January 24, 2020 by Robert Keim

Kumu Networks Reveals First Analog Finite Impulse Response Filter on a Chip

The KU1500 is designed to allow radios to send and receive signals at the same time on the same or adjacent channels.

December 31, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

New Quad-output DC-DC Regulators from Analog Devices Can Be Paralleled for 4.8A

The LTM4668 and LTM4668A accept 2.7V to 17V inputs and produce four parallelable 1.2A outputs.

December 13, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

UnitedSiC Titles New SiC FETs as the “Lowest RDS(on)​​​​​​​ SiC Power Devices on the Planet”

The new SiC FETs combines a SiC JFET and a cascade-optimized Si MOSFET, offering an RDS(on)​​​​​​​ as low as 7mΩ.

December 09, 2019 by Cabe Atwell

Rimac Chooses Analog Devices ICs as the “Brain” for Their EV Battery Management System

Analog Devices’ precision BMS (Battery Management System) ICs will be incorporated into Rimac’s BMS for increased performance and efficiency.

December 04, 2019 by Cabe Atwell

Infineon’s 50mm/60mm Modules Contain Both Thyristor and Diode Switches

Infineon's newest thyristor/diode modules include 50mm modules with solder bond technology and 60mm modules with pressure contact technology.

November 30, 2019 by Lisa Boneta

Analog Devices Unveils New Quad-channel 200MHz RF Transceiver

The ADRV9026 wideband RF transceiver supports 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular infrastructure applications.

November 22, 2019 by Gary Elinoff