Digital circuit design is a critical part of electronics. In fact, most electronic components are digital electronic circuits. Even simple integrated circuits (ICs) contain thousands or hundreds of thousands of transistors. Microprocessors and microcontroller ICs typically have millions or billions of transistors. Most ICs are produced in fabs, but digital circuit designs can be made…

Texas Instruments (TI) has debuted the industry’s first stand-alone active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter integrated circuits (ICs), enabling engineers to implement smaller, lighter EMI filters, to enhance system functionality at reduced system cost — while simultaneously meeting EMI regulatory standards. As electrical systems become increasingly dense and interconnected, mitigating EMI is a critical system design…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that hundreds of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs), including over 50 different part numbers, are onboard the Artemis 1 launch that blasted off on November 16th. Intersil-brand rad-hard ICs are part of the battery management systems, RS-25 engine control electronics and the launch abort…

According to The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) — a non-profit organization of semiconductor product companies and source for industry statistics — the electronic design automation (EDA) market was valued at $11.57 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $21.36 billion by 2026. EDA refers to using computer-aided tools and services for the design,…

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is simplifying the design and volume production of the new generation of reliable small, low-cost satellites to deliver services like earth observation and broadband internet from low-earth orbits (LEOs). ST’s new series of radiation-hardened power, analog, and logic ICs in low-cost plastic packages…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, is expanding its portfolio of mmWave LNAs and Tx BFICs with the introduction of three new dual-beam active beamforming ICs: F6121 for Ku-band Satcom F6122 for Ka-band Satcom and F6123 for Ku-band radar and line-of-sight communications Featuring best-in-class power consumption, noise figure, a compact size, and…

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that its gallium-nitride (GaN) technology and C2000 real-time microcontrollers (MCUs) are being combined with Delta Electronics’ high-efficiency power electronics expertise in the design of an enterprise server power-supply unit (PSU). They feature an 80-percent improvement in power density with one percent better efficiency — up to 99.2 percent — for…

ADC0804 is an IC(integrated circuit) which converts the input analog voltage to its equivalent digital output. It is a stand alone analog to digital converter. Though now it is decades old and replaced by newer analog to digital converters which provide more flexibility, consumes less power, provides output in multiple formats and are smaller in…

Integrated Circuits rule the world of electronics. Electronic components are available either in discrete or integrated form. The discrete form is reserved for standalone components only, like a transistor, diode, resistor, capacitor, or inductor. It is the ICs that actually made electronics so popular and ubiquitous it is today. All sorts of circuits – analog,…