Circuit Design Fundamentals: Basic Logic Gates and Their Working
Digital circuits are all around us. They are found in smartphones, TVs, laptops, microwave ovens, gaming consoles, digital cameras – in short, in everything modern day electronics. One of the most important components of these circuits are logic gates. Logic gates are building blocks of digital circuits. They help the digital circuits analyze and process […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Flip Flops: Basics, Working and Types
Before we get to start discussing flip flops in detail, let’s first quickly review the basics of the logic circuits in which flip flops are used.
A Quick Refresher on Demultiplexers for Design Engineers
Demultiplexers are commonplace in digital electronics. They are typically found in communication systems, arithmetic logic unit (ALU) circuits, parallel data circuits, and are used in almost all applications that concern data distribution.
Outsourced ASIC Development: Understanding the Process Flow
Outsourcing your ASIC development project to an ASIC design company but don’t know what to expect or how the process will work?
Everything ASIC Designing: Wafer Testing
Wafer testing is a critical step in ASIC design and manufacturing process and forms part of the fabrication phase.
What Services Does an ASIC Design Company Offer?
So, you have finally decided that an ASIC is the way to go for your next technology product. And given your lack of expertise and experience in the area, you’d prefer to outsource the development of the ASIC to an external ASIC design company.
Why ASIC is the Way to Go for Your Next IoT Product
Currently, discretely solutions, like the one comprising of off-the-shelf components combined in a package or connected on a circuit board dominate most IoT designs.
A Quick Refresher on XOR Gates for Design Engineers
They may be the exclusives of the Boolean world, where typical rules of addition, subtraction and complementation may not hold true for them, but XOR gates are nonetheless important logic gates that form part of many important applications and circuits.
Pointers for Selecting the Right IC Package for Your ASIC
Thanks to the advances in chip manufacturing technology, IC packaging today offers wide, deep and robust solutions to electronic device and system manufacturers.
What Is PRBS Signal and When Do We Use It?
If there is one thing that system engineers absolutely dislike the sight of, it’s the presence of random signals, like white noise, in a signal of interest. These signals corrupt the signal of interest and cause unnecessary loss of data.
A Quick Refresher on Clock Dividers for Design Engineers
Clock dividers form an important part of many digital and analog circuits. They are used in radars as timing devices. They are used in televisions to synchronize scanning generators. They are used in quartz-crystal clocks to facilitate the function of atomic oscillators.
A Quick Refresher on Digital Buffer Logic Gates for Design Engineers
While most logic gates at least have two inputs and one output, NOT and buffer logic gates only have one input and one output. These special types of (single input) logic gates find their use in many circuit applications. In this post, we’ll discuss buffer logic gates and their uses.
The Application and Design of Flash ADC
Electronic engineering is all about finding feasible solutions for optimum circuit performance while maintaining cost and space requirements.
Getting Started with Limiting Amplifiers
Electronic appliances have undoubtedly simplified our everyday chores. However, their efficiency depends on their proper maintenance and operating them at recommended voltage and current range.
Types of Filters and their Effect on Noise Reduction
The world of circuit designing revolves around the sole purpose of improving the overall performance of a circuit. Signal transmission over large distances introduces several disturbances like attenuation, distortion, and interference in the circuit.
Frequency Divider Circuits: What You Need to Know
Analog and digital applications require the use of frequency division to tailor the signal according to circuit requirements. Several approaches can be used to create a frequency divider circuit. Let’s take a look at some of these approaches.