Some specialty vacuum tubes are alive and well, with their design and production enhanced by 3D printing techniques.

New multi-GHz oscillators (XOs) and jitter attenuators bring timing chips into the digital domain by employing CMOS ...

Here is how a fascination with analog and mixed-signal semiconductors led Tony Pialis to design innovations in SerDes architectures.

Planet Analog provides an online community for semiconductor and system designers/engineers interested in advancing analog design techniques.

The tips and tricks when testing motor-driver ICs on the lab bench can help engineers reduce time spent on evaluating and prototyping motor systems. The first installment of this two-part article ...

You are undoubtedly familiar with the electro-optical (E-O) clip-on unit for assessing a person’s SpO 2 (oxygen saturation of peripheral) in real-time. This small oximetry device, which sells for ...

Engineers often use SPICE simulations for operational amplifiers to look at the stability of a proposed circuit. SPICE simulations are particularly frequent for high-speed amplifier applications where ...

What’s a field-programmable analog array (FPAA), and how does it work? Dr. Jennifer Hasler, who carried out pioneering work on FPAAs at Georgia Tech, explains this analog device’s anatomy and workings ...

Our fundamental passive and inherently analog components—resistors, capacitors, and inductors—are so conceptually simple and easy to describe that we often don’t fully articulate or appreciate the ...

If the car battery terminals are reverse connected during a jump start, vehicle upkeep, or repair, components in the associated automotive electronics modules may be damaged if they cannot handle the ...

Sensors are getting smarter by integrating sensing technology with embedded microcontrollers, software, and artificial intelligence (AI) that runs inside the sensor itself. Here, software solutions ...