Technical Articles

This article will review considerations for efficient FPGA implementation of symmetric FIR filters.

This article presents and discusses a schematic design for a ±5 V inductorless power supply.

This article discusses charge-pump DC/DC converters and introduces a design for an inductorless bipolar power-supply circuit.

This article will review the distributed arithmetic which is an interesting method of efficiently implementing multiply-and-accumulate operations....

This article will review a basic algorithm for binary division.

In this article, we will assess and characterize the hardware of two power management IC development boards from Cypress Semiconductor, designed for energy-harvesting applications....

The Blomley amplifier was designed over forty years ago, is an alternative power amplifier design that suffers virtually no distortion, and provides a sound which has the presence often lacking...

This article will review integrating a Xilinx IP core into an FPGA design.

This article will review the structure of the binary multipliers that use the look-up tables (LUTs) in the Xilinx logic fabric.

This article provides an overview of the various fuse options that are available to designers of low-voltage circuits.

This article provides an overview of some subtle yet important aspects of fuse functionality and design.

This article helps you understand what PNP transistors are, how they’re used, and why they’re less common than NPN transistors.

This tech brief provides an overview of a somewhat uncommon member of the flip-flop family.

This technical brief explains two distinct types of electromagnetic interference.

This article reviews the use of carry-save adders to efficiently compute a multioperand addition.

This article presents two circuits that can be used to analyze the small-signal behavior of a bipolar junction transistor.

This technical brief discusses a widely used military standard for power-supply characteristics.

This article defines VHDL components, describes component declaration, and gives examples of how to use VHDL components in your code. It also touches on the "for-generate" statement and its...

This technical brief discusses a parameter that conveys the sensitivity of an optical detector.