The beginner’s guide for hobbyists and makers unlocks some of the practical secrets behind lightning detection design.

As challenging as today’s reality can be, there’s no going back to the “good old days” when functional blocks had ...

ATS is a piece of hardware that automatically shifts the electrical load from primary power supply to a backup or standby ...

Here is how engineers can design digital input modules with a parallel interface using industrial serialized digital inputs.

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When light strikes the photodiode’s active region, current flows from cathode to anode. Ideally, this entire photocurrent ...

The actual cost of a custom IC is most likely more than you think. The total cost -- including amortized NRE -- must be considered.

Machine learning (ML), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), has become integral to our lives. It allows us to learn and reason from data using techniques such as deep neural network algorithms.

Here are tips for debugging stepper motor systems as well as general bench testing advice based on the personal experience of co-authors.

Learn about the tips and tricks for testing and debugging of motor driver ICs to accelerate the evaluation and prototyping of motor designs.

Configuring a phase locked loop (PLL) for a given frequency synthesis application can simultaneously be both a quick-and easy-process as well as a time-consuming, tedious, and iterative process. This ...