EDN

Signal Chain Basics (Part 21): Understand and configure analog and digital grounds

Thank you for reading Signal Chain Basics! As Bill Klein mentioned in his last article (links below), Signal Chain Basics will now be written by several Texas Instruments analog experts, and Rick ...
EDN

Signal Chain Basics (Part 15): Analog/digital converter–dynamic parameters

(Editor's Note: There are links to the previous parts of this series at the end, below the author's biography.) As the Bode plot is the foundation for understanding the operational amplifier (op amp) ...
Electronic Design

The ABCs of Analog Signal-Path Design—and Coping with Today’s Challenges

How analog signal engineering is performed, in broad strokes. What are the component-selection considerations for new designs? What are VFAs and how are they used? Analog signal engineers specialize ...
Electronic Design

Signal Processing In The Density Domain (Part IV)

Fig 1. Digital filters are just a combination of multiplications and accumulations. Shown are an IIR filter with feedback and an FIR filter with a series of weighted samples (taps). Fig 2. Starting ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Improve Analog Design Reuse

Digital circuit design is largely automated today, but most analog components still are designed manually. This may change soon. As analog design grows increasingly complex and error-prone, design ...