The first-of-its-kind lab and corresponding program will provide unparalleled access to tools and expertise in IC design, and will enable to train the next generation of analog electrical engineering ...

Today’s electronic chips are commonly comprised of a mix of analog, RF, and digital components, with increasing functionalities, complexities, and numbers of transistors reaching the trillions. While ...

Preamplifiers are standard building-blocks often required in the analog world. Whether it’s needed for a low-level sensor output voltage or current, or the minute RF signal from an antenna, the preamp ...

Digital circuit design is largely automated today, but most analog components still are designed manually. This may change soon. As analog design grows increasingly complex and error-prone, design ...

In analog layout design, precise layout matching techniques are crucial to ensure the accuracy and performance of the circuit so that transistors exhibit similar electrical properties (i.e.

Bonnie Baker, senior applications engineer at Texas Instruments and regular EDN columnist, demonstrates a simple way to add DAC functionality to a microcontroller-based system using only an op amp and ...

Carl Nelson is an analog IC designer. He consults at Linear Technology, which was recently acquired by Analog Devices. Bob Dobkin, Linear Tech co-founder and CTO, notes, "Carl is the best, most ...