Why didn’t they do this sooner? That’s the question some embedded engineers designing with microcontrollers (MCUs) are asking about the idea of adding analog signal-chain components in MCUs. With ...

Different challenges have to be overcome when designing integrated circuits. Besides schematic and layout design work, verification in view of the non-ideal behavior of circuits and semiconductor ...

This application note lists a number of application circuits for Intersil’s digitally-controlled (XDCP) potentiometers. The application circuits illustrate the wide variety of possible functions which ...

Foundries and packaging houses are wrestling how to control heat in the testing phase, particularly as devices continue to shrink and as thermally sensitive analog circuits are added into SoCs and ...

EIM Technologies' Kickstarter campaign ended on April 16, 2025, reaching ~$108,000 in pledges. The book and associated kits can now be ordered from EIM directly, with details below. EIM used ...

Connecting them at only one point. Cutting the ground plane under a mixed signal component Connecting them with capacitors. Segmenting the ground plane in a PCB such that there is only a narrow ...