Accurate signal conditioning and high-resolution measurements are no longer limited to industrial or instrumentation applications. Designers of portable consumer- electronic equipment also need to ...

SPI data rates are commonly in the range of 1 to 70 MHz and byte lengths can range from 8- and 12-bits to multiples of these values. Data transfers always consist of a data exchange. While the master ...

Cypress's Dave Van Ess proposes a novel way of analyzing mixed-signal circuits in terms of serializing the digitized analog signal and then assesing the relative time the signal is high. As an “old ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...

In previous articles, I have covered multiviewers, routers and some specific topics about AC-coupling capacitors, the evolution of SFP modules and fiber-optic theory. One important aspect I haven’t ...

How to quantify the power-supply noise sensitivity of signal-processing chain loads. How to calculate the maximum acceptable power-supply noise. Strategies to meet power-domain sensitivity with ...

Scientific American presents Tech Talker by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. I’ve had a few listeners write in all with the same question: ...

The topic of video conversion spans a lot of territory and can run as deep as one cares to study. Part one of this part-two series of articles appeared in the February issue of Broadcast Engineering ...