A similar version of this article appeared in the May 5, 2010 issue of Electronic Design magazine. As portable battery-operated devices continue to shrink in size while adding functionality, their PCB ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced the TSZ901 operational amplifier, a device designed to deliver exceptional accuracy, speed, ...

Modeling the performance of an analog device with SPICE is one of the standard techniques used by circuit designers to perform initial characterization and performance analysis before putting together ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The precision op amp plays a key role in analog and mixed-signal circuits. Applications extend from measuring large currents by amplifying the voltage ...

A lot of the analog-circuit conversation these days is centered on low-power and thus low-voltage considerations. That makes sense for operational amplifiers (op amps), of course, since these basic ...

One of my first jobs as a freshly minted graduate engineer involved the maintenance of a set of analogue chart recorders. They were museum pieces by the early 1990s: a motorized roll of graph paper ...