Anablog
Senior Technical Editor, Steve Taranovich, muses about the analog world of electronics as it relates to electrical engineers and analog aficionados.
How Dr. Middlebrook shattered analog paradigms
Professor R.D. Middlebrook, professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology showed young engineers how to increase their productivity by using design-oriented analysis to obtain low entropy expressions.We lost Middlebrook in April of 2010 from an illness, but his penchant to help engineering graduates to transition from student to engineer more effectively and efficiently ...... Read More
Comments (7)Medical home monitoring services with integrated connectivity—Do Baby Boomers agree?
The Swedish research firm Berg Insight recently released a report finding that about 2.2 million people worldwide were using remote health monitoring devices by the end of 2011. More than 200 million people in Europe and the US suffer chronic disease that could be handled at home rather than the hospital with remote monitoring, according to the Administration on Aging (AOA). My friend, Steven Dean ...... Read More
Comments (14)EDN panel discussion: Optimizing the sensor signal chain for low power design
Designers are challenged more and more to develop new architectures in the signal chain with an eye on low power dissipation. Energy harvesting, energy scavenging, portable hand-held, medical implants and more, are all the buzz-words we hear every day that want to implement designs to allow the battery to last longer or, to take it a step further, to eliminate the battery as part of the power mana ...... Read More
Comments (1)Social implications of technology---an IEEE society
Do you care about ethics in engineering? Or about how technology is used on this earth? The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (IEEE-SSIT) is a highly interdisciplinary group for all those interested in the social impacts of technologists’ work.They are not just concerned about how technology impacts the world we live in but also how the application of technology can im ...... Read More
Comments (1)June 2012 Sensors Expo and Conference--Chicago
If anyone is in or near Chicago in early June, think about attending the 2012 Sensors Expo & Conference 0n June 6 and 7 in Rosemont, Ill.This event is being described as the only industry event in North America exclusively focused on sensors and sensor-integrated systems. The conference program is dedicated to exploring the most up-to-date innovations in sensor technology, including MEMS, Ener ...... Read More
Comments (1)Tesla---Connecting the dots
Dr. Simos’ presentation on Tesla was eye-opening as well as mathematically and theoretically rigorous in showing that some of Tesla’s ideas that were dismissed over a century ago are now seen in a different light. This due to looking back and showing that the ideas, far advanced for the time, are now shown to comply with Maxwell’s equations and do not violate any classical law ...... Read More
Comments (50)New Anablogger
Hello my fellow analog junkies! I’m the new guy at EDN—Kudos to Paul Rako, who has done a stellar job on this blog site over the past few years and I wish him well in his new endeavor—we have already crossed paths at DESIGN West 2012 in San Jose a month ago at a mentoring session for university students. A passion we both share as well as enjoying analog engineering for a good ...... Read More
Comments (6)Rako is headed to Analog Devices
It is with a sad heart I tell you that I am leaving EDN today. Next year I will start at Analog Devices. I will be working here in the Silicon Valley office. I loved my gig here at EDN, but Analog Devices asked me to get back to the bench and work on amplifier tools. In preparing for my recent article on error budgets, I fired up my old copy of PSpice and ran a few Monte-Carlo simulations. It remi ...... Read More
Comments (14)Analog Aficionados party Feb 18, 2012
I will be hosting the 3rd annual Analog Aficionados party Saturday, February 18, 2012. As always, this is the Saturday before the start of the IEEE ISSCC (international solid state circuits conference). 5:00 to 10:00. I get the venue and buy a couple grand in food for you maniacs, you buy your own booze. Neither I nor the venue, nor any sponsors I round up are responsible if you get drunk and ...... Read More
Comments (6)TI Tech Day unveils the MAVRK prototyping system
I was lucky enough to go to the Texas Instruments tech day here in San Jose last week. It was fantastic and I encourage all engineers to attend this an other conferences like our famous ESC conference now rebranded DESIGN West, if only because EDN’s own Margery Conner will be running her hardware design conference for LEDs as part of the show. . TI’s tech days were run like a mini ...... Read More
Comments (5)LTspice seminar with Mike Engelhardt
Last week I was lucky enough to get tipped off about the last seminar this year for Linear Technology’s free Spice program, LTspice. The seminar was given by the author of the program, Linear Tech employee Mike Engelhardt. From hanging around LT design engineers, I have heard that there is a little PSpice DNA in the company. Mike once said that he hired a former PSpice programmer to help wi ...... Read More
Comments (19)LTspice seminar today, TI Tech day Thursday, Computer History Museum Saturday plus eFlea breakfast
Lots of happenings this week in Silicon Valley: LTspice seminar today at Linear Techhttp://www.nuhorizons.com/xpresstrack/ltspice/ TI Tech day at the Doubletree Hotel on Thursday the 8thhttp://www.ti.com/ww/en/techdays/2011/docs/sanjose_agenda-dec.pdf Our usual eFlea breakfast (no flea market in winter) Saturday Dec 10, 2011, 7:00-10:00 PM Bobbi’s Coffee Shop 1361 S De Anza Blvd Cuper ...... Read More
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