Circuits & Schematics - Measurement - 2

A colleague asked for the measured jitter number on a single-supply comparator design based on the LM359 IC ( Ref. 1 ). He wanted to know how the jitter performance of the discrete comparator compared to an IC comparator, which was used with an ...

Dual precision comparators are needed in many designs, such as for industrial and instrumentation applications, to generate accurate pulse-width modulated (PWM) waveforms with very high ( 99%) and very low ( 1%) duty-cycle percentages. This design ...

This modular resistor load bank uses a unique topology to reduce the number of switches and resistors while providing the maximum number of steps. An array or bank of load resistors is often required for testing power products, characterization of ...

Famous analog designer and author Jim Williams published an awesome design in 1986 for a 100-MHz voltage to frequency converter ( Ref. 1 ). He named this high-climber (picture it on the roof of the Empire State building swatting biplanes out of the ...

RTDs (resistance-temperature detectors) are the preferred sensor choices for designs requiring precision. Although RTDs are approximately linear over the limited temperature range of 0 to 100 C, these sensors exhibit a slight but progressively more ...

The original application of the circuit in Figure 1 was to locate coins, but it applies wherever you need to locate metal objects. The circuit uses a beat-frequency technique: Whenever a metal object comes close to the search coil, the metal causes ...

Figure 1’s silly-simple voltage-to-time ADC is an exercise in dynamic range. Assuming that it is used with a 10-MHz counter/timer, its resolution is roughly 10 µV per count for inputs around 0 V and 100 mV per count at 1 kV, and it ...

Figure 1 is a cheap and cheerful voltage inverter I offered awhile back in “A simple, accurate, and efficient charge pump voltage inverter for $1” ( Ref. 1 ). Figure 1. The generic and versatile xx4053 provides the basis for a cheap, ...

ADC circuits that resolve signal into 20 or more bits need a low-noise signal source for measuring parameters such as harmonic distortion or effective number of bits. A notch filter removes the fundamental frequency from the oscillators signal for ...