An experienced circuit-design EE once clarified his view of the hierarchy of IC-vendor design support: High-performance, feature-rich ICs were good, application circuits were better, but complete ...

Industrial digital input chips provide serialized data by default. However, in systems that require real time, low latency, or higher speed, it may be preferable to provide level-translated, real-time ...

Fig 1. An SPI-based output driver (in this case, an L9822 octal relay driver from STMicroelectronics) can be used to provide a random mix of I/O pins at the chip’s output. The circuit in (a) senses a ...

Any discussion of power integrity includes a great deal of emphasis on the concept of target impedance and flat impedance requirements. But how do we design a voltage regulator module (VRM) ...

An R&D manager shares his perspective. Medical device designers are well versed in design controls, but generating design requirements can get a little confusing. At MD&M West 2017, Li Jin, R&D ...

Computers close computerA device that processes information by following a set of rules called a program. and digital devices work by storing and processing information. If information has been ...