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acquisitionZONE

• Operational Amplifier Stability - Part 11 of 15: Modeling Complex Zo for Op Amps  
(Tim Green, 
Senior Staff Systems Engineer, Apex Precision Power, a division of Cirrus Logic, Inc - May 7, 2012)
• Harmonic Distortion: Part II Understanding The Effects Of Closed-Loop Gain And Common-Mode Errors On THD+N  
(Jorge Vega, Characterization Engineer, Texas Instruments - April 23, 2012)
• Harmonic Distortion: Part I - Understanding Harmonic Distortion Vs. Frequency Measurements in Op Amps  
(Jorge Vega, Characterization Engineer, and Raj Ramanathan, Analog Design Engineer, Texas Instruments - January 30, 2012)
• Development of a Spice Macro-Model For Fully-Differential Amplifiers  
(Jian Wang and Gwilym Luff, Intersil Corporation - July 25, 2011)
• Improved Sallen Key Low Pass Designs Exploit Modern Components and Design Tools  
(Michael Steffes, Senior Applications Manager, Intersil Corporation - October 18, 2010)
• Why Active Cascoding Is Ideal for Folded-Cascode Amplifier Stages  
(Philip Golden, Principal Design Engineer, Intersil Corporation - September 13, 2010)
• Differential Dc-Coupled ADC interface With Common-Mode Control to the ADC Inputs  
(Michael Steffes, Senior Applications Manager, Intersil Corporation - May 10, 2010)
• Collider Passes Smoke Test  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 1, 2010)
• Analog-To-Digital Converters Part 4 Of 6: Move Your System Strategy To The Forefront In Your ADC Designs  
(Bonnie C Baker, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - November 30, 2009)
• Electronics for High-Energy Particle Detection, Part II  
(Erik Margan, R&D Engineer, Experimental Particle Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia - February 2, 2009)
• Optimizing an RTC for Accuracy  
(Jason Ngai & Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - January 26, 2009)
• Electronics for High-Energy Particle Detection, Part I  
(Erik Margan, Guest Contributor; R&D Engineer, Experimental Particle Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute; Ljubljana, Slovenia - January 5, 2009)
• Efficient Tuning of Capacitive Sensing Designs  
(Robert Jania, Cypress Semiconductor - August 25, 2008)
• Auto-Zero Noise Filtering Improves Instrumentation Amplifier Output  
(Maurizio Gavardoni, Product Definer, Maxim Integrated Products Inc. - May 26, 2008)
• Analog-To-Digital Converters: Part 3 of 6  
(Bonnie C Baker, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - May 19, 2008)
• Avoiding Performance Pitfalls for the Pulse Response of High-Speed Op Amps: Part 2  
(Michael Steffes - March 31, 2008)
• Avoiding Performance Pitfalls for the Pulse Response of High-Speed Op Amps: Part 1  
(Michael Steffes - February 4, 2008)
• Choose A Digitally-Controlled Potentiometer Instead Of A DAC?  
(Tamara Schmitz and Heather Babcock, Intersil Corporation - October 8, 2007)
• Operational Amplifier Stability: Part 10 of 15  
(Tim Green, Linear Applications Engineering Manager, Burr-Brown Products from Texas Instruments - September 24, 2007)
• Boost Your Bandwidth with a Little Extra Microstrip  
(Navid Mostafavi, Applications Engineer, Intersil Corporation - August 13, 2007)
• Analog-To-Digital Converters  
(Bonnie C. Baker and Russell Anderson, Texas Instruments - July 23, 2007)
• Developing A Precise Pt100 RTD Simulator For SPICE  
(Thomas Kuehl, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - May 28, 2007)
• Designing SAR ADC Drive Circuitry: Part III  
(Rick Downs, Applications Engineering Manager, and Miro Oljaca, Systems Engineer, Data Acquisition Products, Texas Instruments - March 12, 2007)
• Operational Amplifier Stability - Part 9 of 15: Capacitive Load Stability: Output Pin Compensation  
(Tim Green, Linear Applications Engineering Manager, Burr-Brown Products from Texas Instruments Incorporated - December 11, 2006)
• Basic Guidelines For Using Analog-To-Digital Converters  
(Gary Hendrickson, Intersil Corporation - November 20, 2006)
• Design For A Wideband Differential Transimpedance DAC Output Interface  
(Michael Steffes, Market Development Manager, High-Speed Signal Conditioning, Texas Instruments Incorporated - October 23, 2006)
• The Evolution Of Rail-to-Rail Amplifiers  
(Mike Wong and Tamara Papalias, Intersil Corporation - September 25, 2006)

audio/videoZONE

• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits Part XII: Photodiode Amplifier Noise (continued)  
(Art Kay and Bryan Zhao, Texas Instruments Incorporated - January 23, 2012)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits - Part XI: Photodiode Amplifier Noise  
(Art Kay and Bryan Zhao, Texas Instruments Incorporated - December 5, 2011)
• Is Your Home Theater Setup Ruining Your Movie Experience?  
(Alan Lofft, for Axiom Audio - October 25, 2010)
• Video Coax CMV Compensation Networks  
(Rudy Berneike and David Laing, Intersil Corporation - April 19, 2010)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits - Part X  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - March 29, 2010)
• Modeling Electret Condenser Microphones in SPICE  
(Collin Wells, Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - March 1, 2010)
• Optimizing Vcom to Maximize TFT-LCD Applications Performance  
(Mike Ogier, Intersil Corporation - September 21, 2009)
• Dual Audio Potentiometers Deliver Power Savings for Consumer Audio Devices  
(Brandon Howell & Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - June 8, 2009)
• Audio Click And Pop Noise Characterization And Elimination Techniques  
(Allan Robinson and Tim Lok, Intersil Corporation - April 13, 2009)
• The Basics of Video: From Analog to HDTV (Part II)  
(Mike Ogier & Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - March 23, 2009)
• The Basics of Video: From Analog to HDTV (Part I)  
(Mike Ogier & Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - March 9, 2009)
• Overcoming Amplifier Electrical Overstress Problems  
(Thomas Kuehl and Bonnie C Baker, Senior Applications Engineers, Texas Instruments Incorporated - March 2, 2009)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp CircuitsPart IX: 1/f Noise and Zero-Drift Amplifiers  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - December 1, 2008)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits Part VIII: Popcorn Noise  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - February 25, 2008)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - October 7, 2007)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - August 13, 2007)
• Analysis and Measurement of Intrinsic Noise in Op Amp Circuits: Part V - Introduction to Noise Measurement  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - April 30, 2007)
• Rail-to-Rail Amplifier With Integrated Charge Pump Improves Input Offset  
(Mike Wong and Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - March 19, 2007)
• Analysis And Measurement Of Intrinsic Noise In Op Amp Circuits Part lll  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - December 4, 2006)
• Analysis And Measurement Of Intrinsic Noise In Op Amp Circuit  
(Art Kay, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - January 9, 2006)

connectivityZONE

• Precision Analog Reference Voltage from Smaller, Low-cost Mixed-Signal Devices  
(Archana Yarlagadda, Applications Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - February 22, 2010)
• Signals From Noise: Calculating Delta-Sigma SNRs  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - August 31, 2009)
• Lost in Translation: Interface Incompatibility in Embedded System Designs  
(Meng He, Product Manager, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation - June 22, 2009)
• Signals From Noise: Constructing SINCk Decimators With A Subtractor  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - May 11, 2009)
• An Overview of High-Speed Communications Over Twisted-Pair Cables  
(Mark Sauerwald, Applications Engineer, MTS, National Semiconductor Corporation - April 6, 2009)
• A Practical Guide to Receiver Jitter Tolerance Testing, Part III: Tolerance Test On A PCI Express Add-In Card  
(Michael Fleischer-Reumann, Agilent Technologies - March 16, 2009)
• A Practical Guide to Receiver Jitter Tolerance Testing, Part II: Jitter Generation  
(Michael Fleischer-Reumann, Agilent Technologies - February 9, 2009)
• With A Good Cable Equalizer, An Engineer Can Go Far In This World  
(Mark Sauerwald, Applications Engineer, MTS, National Semiconductor Corporation - January 12, 2009)
• A Practical Guide to Receiver Jitter Tolerance Testing, Part I :Receiver Principles and Signal Impairment Tolerance Test  
(Michael Fleischer-Reumann, Agilent Technologies - December 8, 2008)
• Taking the Frustration Out of Hot Swapping sRIO Boards  
(Trevor Hiatt and Raymond Ho, Communications Division, IDT - October 6, 2008)
• Signals From Noise  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - September 15, 2008)
• Comprehending Non-Standard RS-485 Features  
(Jeff Lies, Senior Analog Applications Engineer, Intersil Corporation - June 9, 2008)
• Signals From Noise  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - April 14, 2008)
• LVDS-Based SerDes Devices Can Simplify Video Interconnects  
(Naresh B Shetty, Senior Analog Mixed-Signal Product Marketing Manager, Intersil Corporation - November 12, 2007)
• Signals-From-Noise: The Incredible Mock Analog Low-Pass Filter  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - October 22, 2007)
• Signals-From-Noise: Slew-Limited Filters  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - October 7, 2007)
• Signals-From-Noise: Current Sources  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, MTS, Cypress Semiconductor - August 27, 2007)
• What Sallen-Key Filter Articles Don't Tell You - Part III  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - June 11, 2007)
• Signals-from-Noise - What Sallen-Key Filter Articles Don't Tell You - Part II  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Applications Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - May 14, 2007)
• Signals-from-Noise: What Sallen-Key Filter Articles Don't Tell You, Part I  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - April 9, 2007)
• Signals-From-Noise: Single-Bit ADCs in a Nutshell - Part III  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - March 5, 2007)
• Firmware Emulation of an I2C Slave Device  
(Steve Kolokowsky, Cypress Semiconductor - October 30, 2006)
• Signals-from-Noise Part II: Advanced DAC Techniques  
(Dave Van Ess, Principal Application Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor - October 23, 2006)

connectorZONE

• A Rapid Prototyping System For Embedded Designs  
(Robert Lewis, P Eng, iMn MicroControl Ltd - April 14, 2008)

designDEN

• Furnace Control  
(Dennis L Feucht - February 14, 2011)
• Transistor Quirks  
(Dennis L Feucht - April 12, 2010)
• The Golden Ratio in Electronics  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 9, 2009)
• Low-Power CCM Flyback Converter: Part I  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 7, 2009)
• Motor Drives and Audio Amplifiers  
(Dennis L Feucht - December 3, 2007)
• Transistor And Inductive-Switch Analogs  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 30, 2002)

dsp/mcuZONE

• Learning About Capacitive Proximity Sensing By Building A Theremin  
(Todd Lesher, Cypress Semiconductor - June 29, 2009)
• Nyquist Revisited: How Many Samples Are Really Necessary?  
(Al Wegener, Samplify Systems - July 2, 2007)
• Developing DSP Test Systems for TI DSPs  
(Michael Trimborn National Instruments - November 6, 2006)

greenpowerZONE

• HBLED Lighting: What You Should Know and Nobody Will Tell You  
(Ed Rodriguez - August 20, 2012)
• Tunable White Light Theory and Practice For Achieving High-Quality Solid-State Lighting  
(Madhan Kumar and Sachin Gupta, Cypress Semiconductors - November 15, 2010)
• Electronic HID Ballast Increases Efficiency and Extends Lamp Life   
(Tom Ribarich, Director, Lighting Systems, International Rectifier - September 27, 2010)
• Demystifying Powerline Impedance: A Key to PLC Design Success  
(Rahul Parsani, Cypress Semiconductor - August 16, 2010)
• Communications Flexibility Is Key To Interoperable “Smart” Grid  
(Donna Imam and Mike Dow, Freescale Semiconductor - July 19, 2010)
• Power-Over-Ethernet Technology Hits Energy Crisis Head-On With Enterprise-Grade Performance and Reliability  
(Daniel Feldman, Director of Marketing, Telecom Products, Microsemi Corporation - June 15, 2009)
• Energy Efficiency Ratings In Network Equipment  
(Dave Schneider, Senior Technical Marketing Analyst, Ixia - April 13, 2009)
• Reducing System Power With A New NAND Flash Memory Interface  
(Peter Gillingham, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, MOSAID Technologies Inc. - January 19, 2009)
• Fast Recovery MOSFETs In Resonant Converters/Synchronous Rectification Applications  
(Jon Harper, Market Development Manager, Industrial & White Goods Systems, Fairchild Semiconductor Europe - August 25, 2008)
• Replacing Halogen Lights With LEDs  
(Fabien Franc, Catalyst Semiconductor - April 28, 2008)
• Ensuring Efficiency and Reliability in Solar Power Inverters  
(Jon Harper, Market Development Manager, Power Conversion & Industrial Products, Fairchild Semiconductor Europe - December 3, 2007)
• Memory Selection Considerations for Energy-Efficient Data Centers  
(Roland Barth and Jeff Hnatek, Qimonda AG - July 30, 2007)
• White Goods Motor Controller Improves The Environment And The Bottom Line  
(Jeffrey Reichard, CEO, Tier Electronics LLC, and Andrew Soukup, Worldwide TMS320C2000 Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments - November 20, 2006)

greentechZONE

• FireWire: The Greenest Interface  
(William Rose, WJR Consulting, Inc - March 16, 2009)
• Simple Techniques To Mitigate Tin Whiskers On RoHS-Compliant Printed Circuit Assemblies  
(Michael Hundt, STMicroelectronics, Inc. - January 22, 2007)
• Global Warming: The Era Of Fossil Fuel Energy Is Ending  
(Steven H Johnson, Principal, Wallcharts Workshop Inc - October 2, 2006)

highpowerZONE

• A Simple Circuit to Generate Plus and Minus Supplies Using a Boost Regulator  
(Don LaFontaine, Senior Design Engineer, Intersil Corporation - November 14, 2011)
• Selecting a Power Module for Your Application  
(Zaki Moussaoui, Principal Applications Engineer, and
 Sarika Arora, Product Marketing Manager; Intersil Corporation - March 1, 2010)
• Storing Power With Super Capacitors  
(Tom DeLurio, Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc - June 22, 2009)
• Switching Analysis of Synchronous Rectifier MOSFETs With Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converter and Current Doubler  
(Mark Hu, Product Application Manager, Vishay Siliconix - November 19, 2007)
• Power Savings Techniques for Electric Motor Systems  
(Infineon Technologies AG - August 29, 2006)

lowpowerZONE

• A High-Voltage Bidirectional Current Source  
(John Caldwell, Analog Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments - May 26, 2012)
• Level Shifting Between 1.8 V and 3.3 V Using I2C Buffers  
(Tim Lok, Industrial General-Purpose Power Group, Intersil Corporation - January 2, 2012)
• Increasing Home Efficiency with High Brightness LEDs  
(Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - March 29, 2010)
• Guide To Charging Sealed Lead Acid Batteries  
(Tony Morgan, Senior Applications Engineer, Silvertel, Newport, South Wales - July 6, 2009)
• Desert Island Design: Bridging the Gap without Software  
(Dave Ritter, Principal Applications Engineer, Intersil Corporation - September 22, 2008)
• Mixed-Signal Grounding Example  
(Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation - August 25, 2008)
• Grounding Techniques  
(Tamara Schmitz, Principal Applications Engineer, Intersil Corporation - April 14, 2008)
• Power-Over-Ethernet: The Reality Of Designing A Powered Device  
(by Tony Morgan Silver Telecom Ltd - July 31, 2006)

networkZONE

• How Do Synchronous Ethernet And Precision Time Protocol Work?  
(Per Lembre, Director of Product Marketing, Xelerated - October 19, 2009)
• How Do Synchronous Ethernet And Precision Time Protocol Work?  
(Per Lembre, Director of Product Marketing, Xelerated - September 14, 2009)
• Using a Dual-Channel Sampler for Signal Monitoring  
(Juan Garza, Product Marketing and Applications Manager, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation - February 23, 2009)
• OAM Challenges in a Carrier Ethernet Network  
(Stephen Christo and Robert Roden Ph.D, LightStorm Networks Ltd. - July 14, 2008)
• An Introduction To Security In IPsec  
(Mike Borza and Al Hawtin - May 19, 2008)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World, Part VI  
(Brad Booth, Senior Principal Engineer, AMCC - February 25, 2008)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World, Part V  
(David R Stauffer, IBM Microelectronics, ASIC Design Center - January 28, 2008)
• Designing UTM With A Multi-Core Processor  
(Mike Hui, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. - January 14, 2008)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World, Part IV  
(Eric Bogatin, Bogatin Enterprises; and Mike Resso, Agilent Technologies - December 24, 2007)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World, Part III  
(Michael Fogg, Tyco Electronics - November 12, 2007)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World  
(Adam Healey, LSI Corporation - October 22, 2007)
• The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World  
(John D’Ambrosia, Scientist, Force10 Networks - September 24, 2007)
• Reaching Out: New Customers, New Applications  
(Sigurd Schelstraete and Kenneth Madison, Ikanos Communications, Inc - August 20, 2007)
• Standardized Thermal Requirements for AdvancedTCA Systems  
(Pasi Vaananen, Systems Architect, Embedded Communications Computing Motorola Inc - August 6, 2007)
• Testing And Interoperability Verification Of 10GBASE-LRM Optical Interfaces  
(Marco Mazzini, Cisco Photonics - May 7, 2007)
• The Role of Grandmaster, Boundary and Ordinary Clocks in IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for Frequency Synchronization Over Packet Networks  
(by Jeremy Bennington, Senior Manager, Business Development, Symmetricom, Inc. - February 12, 2007)
• High-Performance WiMAX RF Chipset Enables CPE And BTS Applications  
(Russell Hoppenstein, RF Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Incorporated - October 30, 2006)

programmablelogicZONE

• Fast, Flexible FPGA/FPGA Processor Memory Configuration  
(Jim Weyand, Principal Systems Engineer, Embedded Systems Design, Inc. - April 7, 2008)
• Implementing SPI-4.2 Using FPGAs  
(Alex Goldhammer, Marketing Manager, Xilinx, Inc - October 1, 2007)
• The Electronic Sleuth: Using Hard-Boiled Detective Work To Bridge The Gap Between Spec Sheets, Paper Designs, And The Real World  
(Craig McKelvey, Applications Engineering Manager, Cypress Semiconductor - November 6, 2006)

rlcZONE

• Designing with Ceramic Capacitors  
(Wolfgang Zeitler, Vishay Intertechnology - March 2, 2009)
• A Non-Dimensional Look at the R-L-C Equations  
(Kent Edel, Senior Technical Sales Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor - February 23, 2009)
• Estimating Parasitic Inductance and Capacitance  
(Ted Rees, Intersil Corporation - July 21, 2008)
• Increasing Compensation Efficiency By Going Analog  
(Tim Warland, Applications Engineer, and Bob Frostholm, Vice President of Marketing, Microbridge Technologies - December 24, 2007)

technoteZONE

• Frequency Response Above Bandwidth  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 24, 2012)
• Bandwidth from Transfer Functions  
(Dennis L Feucht - August 27, 2012)
• Circuit Dynamics for Design  
(Dennis L Feucht - July 23, 2012)
• The Changing Style of Electronics  
(Dennis L Feucht - June 25, 2012)
• Rail-to-Rail Madness  
(Dennis L Feucht - May 21, 2012)
• Analog Computing with Digital Integrators - Part II: Incremental Function Simulation and Analysis  
(Dennis L Feucht - April 23, 2012)
• Analog Computing with Digital Integrators - Part I: Incremental Function Generation Using Integrators  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 25, 2012)
• The Repair-Ware Revolution  
(Dennis L Feucht - February 20, 2012)
• High-Side Current-Sense Circuit in One BJT Array  
(Dennis L Feucht - January 23, 2012)
• Function Generator Circuit Concepts: Part 2  
(Dennis L Feucht - December 19, 2011)
• Emitter Bypassing Speeds Amplifier  
(Dennis L Feucht - December 5, 2011)
• Function Generator Circuit Concepts  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 14, 2011)
• Bootstrapping  
(Dennis L Feucht - October 10, 2011)
• Interpolation of Log Scales  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 12, 2011)
• Give Cheap Op Amps and Comparators Rail-to-Rail Outputs  
(Dennis L Feucht - August 15, 2011)
• Common-Base Bypassing: and How It Affects CB Frequency Response  
(Dennis L Feucht - July 25, 2011)
• Two-Port Referral  
(Dennis L Feucht - June 20, 2011)
• Analog Circuit Adjustments Give Way to Autocalibration  
(Dennis L Feucht - May 16, 2011)
• Feedback Circuits and Two-Port Blocks: Part 2  
(Dennis L Feucht - April 18, 2011)
• Feedback Circuits and Two-Port Blocks: Part 1  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 14, 2011)
• Furnace Control  
(Dennis L Feucht - February 14, 2011)
• The Enigmatic TL431 Voltage Regulator: Part Two  
(Dennis L Feucht - January 24, 2011)
• The Enigmatic TL431 Voltage Regulator: Part One  
(Dennis L Feucht - December 6, 2010)
• Data Acquisition and Instrumentation Data Processing and Calibration  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 8, 2010)
• Data Acquisition and Instrumentation: The DAS & Sensors    
(Dennis L Feucht - October 4, 2010)
• When Phase Angles for Reactances Are Not 90 Degrees  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 6, 2010)
• Etched Circuit-Board Manufacturing Overview  
(Dennis L Feucht - August 2, 2010)
• Converter Current-Loop Modeling Toward Finished Business: A Simple Unified Model  
(Dennis L Feucht - July 5, 2010)
• Converter Current-Loop Modeling Unfinished Business  
(Dennis L Feucht - June 6, 2010)
• Electronics Quiz # 2  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 15, 2010)
• The Golden Ratio in Electronics  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 9, 2009)
• Low-Power CCM Flyback Converter: Part 2  
(Dennis L Feucht - October 12, 2009)
• The Form Factor Product  
(Dennis L Feucht - August 3, 2009)
• Complementary BJT Configuration  
(Dennis L Feucht - July 6, 2009)
• High-Side Current Sensing  
(Dennis L Feucht - June 8, 2009)
• How Close Did Hitler’s Germany Come to the Atom Bomb?: German Nuclear Research During the 2nd World War  
(Peter Starič - May 4, 2009)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts, Part VIII: Isolated Cuk Converters  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 16, 2009)
• Low-Cost Compressed-Gas Power Source  
(Dennis L Feucht - February 9, 2009)
• The Cuk-Based Converter Concepts, Part VII:Tapped-Winding SEPIC Converter  
(Dennis L Feucht - January 19, 2009)
• Cuk-Based Converter ConceptsPart 6: Cuk Converter Ripple-Current Elimination  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 3, 2008)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts - Part 5: SEPIC Control  
(Dennis L Feucht - October 6, 2008)
• Banking, Money Dynamics, and Electronics  
(Dennis L Feucht - September 1, 2008)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts: Part 4  
(Dennis L Feucht - August 4, 2008)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts: Part 3  
(Dennis L Feucht - July 7, 2008)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts: Part 2  
(Dennis L Feucht - June 2, 2008)
• Cuk-Based Converter Concepts: Part 1  
(Dennis L Feucht - May 5, 2008)
• The End of Engineering  
(Dennis L Feucht - April 14, 2008)
• SEPIC PS1 10 W Converter Design Calculations  
(Dennis L Feucht - March 10, 2008)
• Method for Approximating Magnetic Core Power-Loss Density  
(Dennis L Feucht - February 11, 2008)
• Step Motors and Drives  
(Dennis L Feucht - January 14, 2008)
• Fan Motor Redesign  
(Dennis L Feucht - January 7, 2008)
• Practical Design Of A Buck Converter, Part V  
(Dennis L Feucht - December 10, 2007)
• Practical Design Of A Buck Converter, Part IV  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 12, 2007)
• Fan Motor Repair  
(Dennis L Feucht - November 5, 2007)
• Practical Design Of A Buck Converter  
(Dennis L Feucht - October 1, 2007)
• Practical Design of a Buck Converter  
(Dennis L. Feucht - September 10, 2007)
• The SEPIC Converter  
(Dennis L. Feucht - September 3, 2007)
• Practical Design of a Buck Converter  
(Dennis L. Feucht - August 6, 2007)
• Personal Energy Systems Calculations: Part II  
(Dennis L. Feucht - July 2, 2007)
• Personal Energy Systems Calculations: Part I  
(Dennis L. Feucht - June 4, 2007)
• Temperature Compensation Of BJT Differential Amplifiers  
(Dennis L. Feucht - May 7, 2007)
• Solar Thermoelectric Technology: Part 2  
(Dennis L. Feucht - April 9, 2007)
• Solar Thermoelectric Technology: Part 1  
(Dennis L. Feucht Innovatia Laboratories - March 5, 2007)
• Self-Diagnosis Of Electronics With Analog Circuits - Developmental Concepts  
(Dennis L. Feucht Innovatia Laboratories - February 5, 2007)

wirelessZONE

• Exact Noise Figure Prediction For Transformer-Coupled Fully-Differential Amplifier  
(Michael Steffes, Senior Applications Manager, High Speed Signal Path, Intersil Corporation - July 9, 2012)
•  Integrated Sensor Nodes With GSM Modems  
(Ajay Bharadwaj and Balaji Mamidala, Cypress Semiconductor - July 11, 2011)
• Precise VDSL2 Upstream MTPR Measurements: Implementation and Importance  
(Raymond Ho, Intersil Corporation - November 1, 2010)
• Design And Construction Of A High-Frequency 3.3 V Transimpedance Amplifier  
(Rea Schmid, Senior Analog Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments - November 17, 2008)
• EMI Susceptibility In Analog Circuits  
(Walter Bacharowski, Staff Applications Engineer, National Semiconductor Corporation - August 4, 2008)
• Avago Designs 18 GHz And 26.5 GHz Low-Noise E-pHEMT  
(Avago Technologies Technical Staff - May 19, 2008)
• Digital Wireless Sensor Telemetry  
(Summation Research - March 6, 2006)

test&measurementZONE

• Breaking Network Test Lab Barriers  
(Zohar Karni, QualiSystems - June 4, 2012)
• Perfecting Network Design  
(Asim Rasheed, Ixia - May 14, 2012)
• Using an Oscilloscope for Debugging Serial Buses  
(Doug Beck, Senior Usability Engineer, Agilent Technologies - May 18, 2009)
• What Is A Shaker?  
(Wayne Tustin, Equipment Reliability Institute, Santa Barbara, California - April 27, 2009)
• Building a Test Platform to Characterize the Interference Sensitivity of an Audio Amplifier to RF signals  
(Don LaFontaine, Intersil Corporation - February 2, 2009)
• High Fidelity Probing  
(Jian Wang, AMS Communications Applications Group, Intersil Corporation - January 12, 2009)
• The Value Of Traceable S-Parameter Characterization Of Electro-Optical Components  
(Oliver Funke, Product Manager, Digital Photonic Test, Digital Test Division, Electronic Measurements Group, Agilent Technologies - November 17, 2008)
• What Is A g Unit?  
(Wayne Tustin, Equipment Reliability Institute, Santa Barbara, California - October 20, 2008)
• Complex UWB Signal Generation Using Advanced Waveform-Editing Tools  
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