In my first blog about calibration [ 1 ], I discussed calibrating inputs using techniques that tolerated offsets by simply including them in the measurements. In this blog I will look at nullifying the offsets. The initial approach is to build in ...
In the comments to my series of blogs on temperature measurement on the late, lamented Microcontroller Central, there was some feeling that a blog on calibration of analog IO might be a good idea. Let me start by taking you back to some high school ...
Upside-down mounting can deliver inductance upsides for surface mount passives and other components. Please visualize the structure of a surface mount resistor as shown in the Figure 1. Figure 1. Surface mount resistor constituents include this ...
This moral of this story: any promises of protection and safety should be double-checked for validity. Surge (over-voltage) protection is a rather frequent function, but implementing it robustly is not a very simple task. Recently, I stumbled upon ...
We’ve come to expect the U.S.-based global positioning system (GPS) to be available and ubiquitous for the countless military, commercial, and consumer applications dependent on it. Its diverse uses represent a huge leap from its original ...
How to deal with the reality that a standard buck controller power stage won’t work for negative-input conversion. Telecommunications equipment, industrial test and other applications require a negative input to negative output voltage ...
Magnetic cores had some interesting uses, but a lot has changed in memory technology. This iteration of Electronic Design: Now and Then was inspired when I was reading Using Magnetic Cores in Computers from our archives. This article was originally ...
AI might be replacing jobs at an exponential rate, but a significant percentage of people would not only be OK with AI co-workers, but an AI boss. That’s according to a Quinnipiac University national poll which surveyed usage, experience, and ...
At a time when AI data centers are expanding astronomically to provide the otherworldly computing power needed to train AI models, you might be wondering about the psychological effect of exposing ourselves to an artificial entity that’s ...
There are several ways to evaluate the bandwidth of a signal in the time domain and frequency domain. Previously we looked at the classic relationship of rise time (t R ) and bandwidth (f 3dB ) [ Ref 1 ], captured by this equation: Eric Bogatin ...