Tamara Schmitz

Fisheye images, spanning a field of view of up to 180 degrees, can offer fascinating and exotic qualities. They offer a density of visual information that is otherwise inaccessible to the naked eye or by the use of regular ‘pinhole’ type cameras, even when fitted with a wide-angle lens.

For safety, accuracy and convenience, automation is providing improvements in everyday applications. Consider the precision and advantages of computer-assisted surgery or the array of automation now available in automotive applications like blind-spot detection, automatic bright light adjustment…

For semiconductors, medical and industrial applications often present difficult operating environments with extreme temperature ranges, high levels of ESD, and high sensitivity to electronic noise.

Here is a common everyday scenario in the electronics industry: Designers who’ve found a good op amp for their project want to run simulations on your design before you head into the lab to build up a prototype.

The impact of switched capacitor filters on integrated filter design in the late 1970s was truly revolutionary, and is still considered one of the most significant inventions in the history of ICs [1]. Suddenly the painfully large time constants needed for low frequency signal processing were…

Combining the operation of a boost regulator and a negative voltage converter can generate a negative supply from a single low voltage supply. The circuit in Figure 5 shows a standard application circuit for a +20V supply along with two op amps, two diodes and two capacitors to generate the – 20V…

There are a multitude of reasons to outfit homes with High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HBLEDs). They save significant amounts of energy. They are safer for the environment because they contain no mercury, as fluorescent does.

All too often, designers spend so much time focusing on the specification and selection of their complex, higher cost devices, such as processors, FPGAs, and ADCs, that they don’t fully take into account the major performance impacts…

Driven by a widening range of high-performance application requirements, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) are becoming an increasingly pervasive design element and numerous tradeoffs between performance, cost and complexity are critical factors for the overall success of product designs.

As the basic building blocks used in an extensive array of consumer, industrial, scientific and other applications, Op Amps (Operation Amplifiers) are among the most widely used electronic devices, and for most low-end applications, the requirements are straightforward and the device choice is…