Load switch guards automotive power rails
Kinetic Technologies’ KTS1642Q AEC-Q100-qualified load switch protects automotive loads from abnormal power-supply or load conditions. When used with the appropriate external TVS diodes, the device supports ISO 7637-2 transient requirements…
Single sideband radio meets LMC555 beat frequency oscillator
This basic beat oscillator makes continuous wave keyed code and single sideband suppressed carrier signals audible.
A recent Design Idea from contributor Gavin Watkins shows an inexpensive add-on beat frequency oscillator (BFO) for inexpensive…
AI silicon: Package becoming system architecture
The future of advanced packaging is not one universal package. It’s a technology platform capable of placing the right interconnect, material, die, memory stack, optical engine, and thermal structure at the right system boundary.
For many…
Op-amp LC oscillator uses tank losses for amplitude stabilization
This proposed design eliminates traditional additional requirements for AGC, AC coupling, and post amplification circuitry.
This Design Idea presents a simple op-amp-based sine wave oscillator that directly generates a low-impedance bipolar…
Do we still need schematic diagrams for analog circuits?
As a long-time analog-component and circuit “practitioner,” I view the schematic diagram as the starting point for almost any discussion of a design. It shows the signa flow, the primary ICs, other necessary but often underappreciated passive…
Adapter makes Google’s wireless Android Auto a reality
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combine to untether smartphone-to-car connections…this time with a Google, versus Apple, angle.
Last month, I took apart a third-party adapter that aspires to augment Apple’s CarPlay interface with wireless connectivity…
Measurement basics: A field guide to instrument interfaces
Every engineer’s confidence in measurement rests on more than the instrument—it depends on the interface that ties instruments together into a working system. Standards like GPIB, USB, LXI, PXI, and VXI are not just acronyms; they are the…
Secrets of Oscilloscope Time Measurements
Oscilloscopes utilize both hardware and software tools to enhance the resolution of time measurements. Happily, most of the processing is transparent.
The primary display from an oscilloscope is amplitude versus time. Most of the focus when…
Radon: Level detection, risk determination, and as-needed mitigation
Odorless. Colorless. Tasteless. But certainly not harmless. Radon, in both air and ground water, is a health risk whose prevalence should be regularly assessed and, if necessary, dealt with.
Beginning last fall and continuing through early summer,…
TI a first mover in CAN XL transceivers
The Controller Area Network (CAN) extended data-field length (XL) specification—which has been standardized for years—now has the first commercially available CAN XL transceiver. Texas Instruments has unveiled the TCAN6062 CAN XL transceiver,…
6.5-kV SiC MOSFET reaches 8-kV blocking
NoMIS Power has developed a 6.5-kV large-die SiC MOSFET that has demonstrated over 8 kV of blocking voltage, 90-mΩ on-resistance, and 55-A drain current. Based on the planar SiC technology used in its 3.3-kV devices, the 6.5-kV MOSFET extends…
Made by Google 2026: This limited silicon-supply situation really sucks
AI-driven demand underpins logic foundry and memory fab capacity constraints, leading to cost increases. Add tariffs to the mix, and Google and its competitors (not to mention end users) pay the price.
Last year’s Made By Google fall product…
