Editor's note: Freescale authors/engineers Kushal Kamal and Siddi Jai Prakash have put together a clear and informative article outlining the challenges and good design practice in the SoC design and ...

There are several aspects of audio converter design that are generally not well understood but have a dramatic impact on performance, both measurable and audible. Audio converter IC manufacturers ...

Today's analog system designers face many design challenges. Not only do designers need to select the proper integrated-circuit components, but they also must accurately predict the interactions of ...

Optical encoders (incremental/absolute), sonar receivers, fiber optic networks (EDFA gain control), power quality monitoring, medical imaging equipment, impedance ...

When considering any new part in the signal chain, input/output impedance is usually an important spec to “bolt” the necessary signal-chain blocks together properly. For a high-speed converter, this ...

Analog Devices has introduced a 24bit 2Msample/s dual-channel SAR analogue to digital converter, branding it ‘Easy Drive’ for its front end. “Our Easy Drive feature is to eliminate in most cases the ...

Design teams tackling mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs face the problem of how to get the most out of advanced process technologies when it comes to implementing their analog IP. They need to ...