Smartphone addiction, internet-enabled social-media frenzy, texting while driving, looming AI concerns—without changes, more are questioning where all of this is headed.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Goodbye 12-V auto electrical systems and hello high-voltage substitutes. To deliver the needed efficiency, though, designers are turning to advanced switch-mode power supplies.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Practically all linear signal chains today contain op amps and ADCs, and, therefore, most EEs have a strong knowledge of these devices. But it never hurts to brush up.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Employing just a single wire, this easy-to-use, inexpensive, low-speed bus dominates automotive subsystem connectivity.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: For about 25 cents, you can implement many simple analog and digital functions into applications ranging from pulse-width modulation to a stopwatch.
Though the tools and components have changed radically since its hobbyist beginnings, the fascination and passion for electronics remains if the Maker Faire can serve as a judge.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Numerous devices are available, such as diode arrays, that make it easier than ever to design in electrostatic-discharge protection.
Some useful frequencies are elusive or simply unknown to many engineers, so it wouldn’t hurt to take some time and dig through the FCC “bible” of federal regulations.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Industrial and medical applications can benefit from capacitive-isolator ICs, which offer a lower-power, simpler means of protection from ESD and other electrical surges.
