A variety of analog front-end functions typically assist ADCs to do their jobs. These include instrumentation amplifiers (INA), digitally programmable gain (DPG), and sample and holds (S H). The circuit in Figure 1 is a bit atypical in merging all ...
An electronic dice is always an enjoyable project, which is easy to implement with some lines of program code on a microcontroller, or with a few digital components. However, implementing an electronic dice in analog technology is more of a ...
There are many circuits of soldering station controllers, but absolutely all close the temperature feedback loop using the soldering iron heater thermistor. The performances of the soldering station can be improved and the circuit can be made ...
Piezoelectric actuators (benders, stacks, chips, etc.) are excellent fast and precise means for generation and control of micro, nano, and even atomic scale movement on millisecond and faster timescales. Unfortunately, they are also excellent ...
Analog-to-digital conversion based on the classic combination of a voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) with a counter has been around for (many) decades, mainly because it has some durable time-proven advantages. VFC digitization is naturally ...
Let’s imagine that you need to add a power switch to something that’s battery-powered but processor-free; perhaps it must also be waterproof and thus membrane-sealed. Or perhaps you just want to use a shiny modern push-button rather ...
The CD4011 CMOS NAND gate has a typical input current of 10 pA at room temperature. You can charge a capacitor connected to the gate input with currents on the order of hundreds of picoamperes and neglect the influence of the gate-input current on ...
It is common practice to power a MOSFET with a comparator and with an unregulated voltage and to power the comparator driving it from a regulated one (Figure 1). Many loads are insensitive to driving voltage, so it would be a waste of money and ...
A high-side current-sense amplifier, IC 1 , offers a simple method of combining low-speed clocks or other signals with dc power in cables between subsystems (Figure 1). Designed for monitoring charge and discharge current in secondary batteries, IC ...
Way back in 1986, famed analog innovator Jim Williams, in “Designs for High Performance Voltage-to-Frequency Converters” ( Reference 1 ) published his “King Kong” 100 MHz VFC. I have never seen its equal. Certainly Figure ...