EDN.com Analog Design Center News stories, in-depth tutorial feature articles, and Design Ideas published in EDN.com's Analog Design Center. en-us http://www.edn.com/community/47038/Analog+Design.html Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use (http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=page&module=terms) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:37:09 PDT Trace scaling http://www.edn.com/article/CA6720357.html?rssid=233 It may surprise you to discover that cross-sectional scaling does not change the per-unit-length values of trace capacitance or trace inductance. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT Precisely measure settling time to 1 ppm http://www.edn.com/article/CA6720346.html?rssid=233 Intense, extensive, and protracted effort yields a measurement circuit with 20-bit resolution. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT Smart FET driver emulates rectifier in secondary-side applications http://www.edn.com/article/CA6719969.html?rssid=233 International Rectifier’s new IR11672 synchronous-rectification IC drives a MOSFET in the secondary-side of an ac/dc flyback and resonant half-bridge switched-mode power supply, providing the function of a rectification diode. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT Voices: Mansour Izadinia: spreading analog expertise http://www.edn.com/article/CA6718493.html?rssid=233 Mansour Izadinia, senior vice president of IDT's analog and power group, discusses product definition, smartphnones, and opportunities in the analog area. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT From high to low frequencies with IBIS http://www.edn.com/article/CA6718477.html?rssid=233 The IBIS (input/output-buffer-information-specification) modeling language is alive and well and finding use in anticipating and solving signal-integrity problems. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT Way too cool http://www.edn.com/article/CA6716499.html?rssid=233 Using two recent real-world examples, Howard Johnson considers the drawbacks of rapid adoption of large-scale societal change. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT Integration in the other direction http://www.edn.com/article/CA6715766.html?rssid=233 Building your system with separate dice or separate chips may be a smart alternative to using SOCs. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PDT Jitter and the ins and outs of SNR http://www.edn.com/article/CA6715765.html?rssid=233 Several sources of noise errors can cause your high-speed ADC to fail to meet the published data-sheet SNR (signal-to-noise-ratio) specs. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PDT