Semiconductors

Bandgap Voltage Reference: Complete Guide for Analog Engineers

Master the Bandgap Voltage Reference — understand the physics, compare popular topologies, explore real-world applications, and choose the right IC for your analog design. A practical guide for engineers.

D Latch: Understanding Level-Sensitive Data Latches

A reference covering D latch logic, circuit design, timing, and real-world digital applications.

Voltage Reference: A Survey for Precision Engineers

A voltage reference is a precision circuit that delivers a stable output voltage independent of temperature, power supply, and load variations. This article covers key reference technologies, specifications, selection criteria, PCB design, and applications in ADCs, DACs, and calibration systems.

How to Charge a Lithium-Ion Battery Safely and Efficiently?

This article explains how to charge a Lithium-Ion battery safely and efficiently by covering charge profiles, voltage thresholds, current ratings, temperature derating, fast-charging limits, storage practices, and common design mistakes.

FPGA Development: Architecture, Tools, and Design Flow

Learn the architecture, toolchains, and design methodologies behind professional FPGA development — applied to DSP, embedded systems, and hardware AI.

Electric Actuator: Comprehensive Engineering Guide

This article details electric actuators — explaining theory, construction, motor topologies, transmission trade offs, feedback architectures, selection methodology, applications, comparisons with fluid power, maintenance and standards.

Active Bandpass Filter Design Guide

A bandpass filter is a circuit that allows a selected range of frequencies to pass while reducing low and high frequencies. This article covers the design of active bandpass filters using op-amps, resistors, and capacitors, including cutoff and center frequencies,, Sallen-Key and MFB topologies.

FPGA Chip: Architecture, Fabrication, and Families

Field-programmable gate arrays are reconfigurable integrated circuits engineered for parallel hardware acceleration. Learn how FPGA architecture works, how they're fabricated, and which FPGA chip families lead the industry.

Active Low Pass Filter Design and Implementation

Active low-pass filters use op-amps, resistors, and capacitors to pass low-frequency signals while attenuating higher frequencies. This article covers first-order and second-order filter design, Sallen-Key and MFB topologies, cutoff frequency, Q factor, and applications.

Nexperia Wide Bandgap Selection Guide

Nexperia links device-level advantages to application requirements, helping designers choose the best Wide bandgap (WBG) solution for their design.

Terahertz, Bringing the "Final Frontier" to the Field: ROHM's Resonant Tunneling Diode Enables Compact, Low-Power Sensing

ROHM's RTD enables the generation and detection of terahertz frequencies in a highly compact form factor at low power. It supports non-destructive, non-ionizing imaging and spectroscopy applications like security screening, medical sensing, and high-speed wireless communication.

Signal Integrity in High Speed Digital Systems: Theory & Practice

Maximizing signal integrity (SI) is fundamental for modern digital design engineers. As data rates soar and geometries shrink, ensuring that signals arrive at their destinations with correct timing and amplitude is paramount. This article discusses signal integirty essentials for designers.

RF Design Methodology: From Specification to Verification

A guide covering the full radio-frequency design workflow, starting from setting specifications and choosing topologies to matching, simulation, layout, and verification, to help antenna engineers.

Active High Pass Filter: Theory, Design, and Applications

Active high-pass filters remove unwanted low-frequency signals while preserving useful higher frequencies. This article covers first- and second-order filter design, Sallen-Key and multiple-feedback topologies, and practical applications in audio electronics, instrumentation, and signal processing.

Motor Control Design: End-to-End Methodology

This article presents an end-to-end motor control design methodology covering mechanical sizing, power electronics, sensor selection, real-time control algorithms, EMC, and functional safety for engineers building motor drives.