With technology emerging on a daily basis, there’s an ever-growing demand to generate faster high-voltage signals, and the requirement is often driven by the end equipment. These end equipments can be anything from…
Applications that require the control of a motor typically involve some type of current-sensing circuitry. Being able to sense the current through the motor allows adjustments, such as speed, to the motor’s current state if needed.
For example,…
Previous installments of this blog post series discussed the need to verify SPICE model accuracy and how to measure common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), offset voltage versus common-mode voltage (Vos vs. Vcm), slew…
This post was co-authored by Ryan Small.
The rapid increase of semiconductor content in automotive systems has prompted a need to manage key voltages and currents in each subsystem. Supervising supply voltages…
Previous installments of this blog post series discussed the need to verify SPICE model accuracy and how to measure common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), offset voltage versus common-mode voltage (Vos vs. Vcm), slew…
Previous installments of this blog post series discussed the need for verifying SPICE model accuracy and showed how to measure common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), offset voltage versus common-mode voltage (Vos vs.…
This post is co-authored by Anthony Vaughan.
Designers often run into the problem of selecting one of two (or several) inputs to pass on to the next stage. While a plethora of multiplexer (mux)-type device…
Previous installments of this blog post series discussed the need to verify SPICE model accuracy and how to measure common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) and offset voltage versus common-mode voltage (VOS vs…
It’s no secret that low-voltage rail-to-rail input operational amplifiers (op amps) are gradually taking the place of traditional high-voltage amplifiers in many precision applications. Rail-to-rail…
Capacitive loads can cause stability problems in operational amplifier (op amp) circuits, resulting in large overshoots, ringing, long settling times – and in severe cases, sustained oscillations. These issues…
SPICE simulation is an immensely valuable tool that allows engineers to have high confidence in their analog designs before ever stepping foot in a lab. While many of us live and die by our simulation results…
Quick quiz: Can you find the standard 1% resistor values for a voltage divider that comes closest to a divider ratio of VOUT/VIN = .3278, with less than 0.01% error? The answer is 324Ω and 158Ω, with 0.00025% error.
Setting up the equation…
This post is co-authored by Richard Barthel and Errol Leon.
In applications such as position sensors, data-acquisition systems and resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), it is important to design…
It’s simple to design a multiplexer (or mux for short) into a signal chain, right? After all, the device simply funnels multiple signals into a data converter.
In reality, a mux can significantly impact the performance of a signal chain in a variety…
As a college student, I would often drive back to my dorm room very late at night. On my route, I would always have to drive on a long stretch of road with lots of overhanging trees on either side. It was beautiful by day but terrifying at night, as it…
When responding to questions posted on TI E2E™ Community forums, we frequently run simulations using TINA-TI™ software, a SPICE-based simulation program. Since we are always in the process of updating…
Semiconductor content keeps increasing in automobiles, thanks to the number of sensing technologies. In a span of ten years, the number of sensors has increased steadily across all sensor types. This trend is likely…
While more of the industry’s newest high-resolution, precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) implement differential inputs to maximize performance, many designers still choose to use single…
When building analog signal chains for precision, you should consider several factors during component selection to maintain accuracy in your resulting measurements: offset, offset drift (with temperature), gain error…
Signal gain and noise gain are both important to amplifier circuit design. Signal gain is obviously important because you want to have accurate control of your signal amplitude. Noise gain is also important, even…
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