EDN

Designing analog circuits in CMOS

The evolution in CMOS technology dictated by Moore's Law is clearly beneficial for designers of digital circuits, but it presents difficult challenges, such as lowered nominal supply voltages, for ...
Electronic Design

Startup Trying to Ease Analog Circuit Design Challenges

(Image courtesy of Frtizchens Fritz, Flickr). Last year, Silicon Valley startup Movellus started selling tools that automate the painstaking process of creating certain analog SoC components. This ...
EDN

Don’t monkey around with analog circuits

Engineers engaged in the test or data-acquisition function frequently need to design some analog circuits. I prefer that you get your analog-design tips from sibling publication EDN (which I also edit ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Can Analog Make A Comeback?

We live in an analog world dominated by digital processing, but that could change. Domain specificity, and the desire for greater levels of optimization, may provide analog compute with some ...
Electronic Design

Will Analog Circuits Continue Scaling With CMOS?

In the early '90s, many pessimists predicted that CMOS would hit a wall as it approached 100-nm and lower gate lengths toward the end of the century. But CMOS processes steadily marched forward, ...
SlashGear

Analog Vs Digital Signals: What's The Difference, And How Do They Work?

The distinction between analog and digital signals is very simple, but it can still be a challenge to wrap one's mind around the concepts that define the two systems. Just when you think you've got it ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis Techniques

Analog circuits, despite constituting a small proportion of overall electronic systems, account for a substantial share of system failures. Consequently, the development of robust fault diagnosis ...
La Grande Observer

Linear Systems Empowers Analog Engineers with Release of “JFET Circuit Design: A Schematics Library”

FREMONT, Calif., March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Linear Systems, a leader in monolithic dual JFETs and small-signal discrete semiconductor manufacturing, announces the release of JFET Circuit Design: A ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Analog On-Chip Learning Circuits In Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic SNNs

A technical paper titled “Neuromorphic analog circuits for robust on-chip always-on learning in spiking neural networks” was published by researchers at Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of ...
Hackaday

analog circuit

Generating interesting imagery on an analog oscilloscope is a fun activity enjoyed by many, with an excellent demonstration by [Henry Segerman] provided in a recent video which covers [Matthias ...
Hackaday

Circuit Simulation In Python

Using SPICE to simulate an electrical circuit is a common enough practice in engineering that “SPICEing a circuit” is a perfectly valid phrase in the lexicon. SPICE as a software tool has been around ...