EngineerZone Spotlight

The following scenario was recently presented to me: A sleepy father finally gets his fussy baby to sleep when a smoke detector, possibly sensing steam from an over-heated bottle of formula, blares a needless, high-pitched alarm. The baby – and...

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a panel at the virtual IEEE International Microwave Symposium to discuss RF and microwave design challenges and emerging trends across several markets, including aerospace and defense, instrumentation and wirele...

Economies of Scale is so easy to understand even those of us who have trouble balancing a checkbook can grasp the concept. Increasing output can lower the cost of production, thereby increasing profits and lowering the price of goods to the consumer....

Could MacGyver bring down a surveillance drone hunting him using only a speaker? Although seemingly impossible, the ever-resourceful MacGyver could not only take over a drone, but also eavesdrop on your conversations and track your movements – ...

Verilog is an HDL (hardware description language). The other common HDL is VHDL. These languages are used to design and verify digital circuits. The topic of today’s talk is to explore whether these HDL are software in the sense of IEC 61508-3,...

Eager to increase the yields of their crops and improve margins on their business, farmers have embraced tech. One example is the GPS-guided tractor or harvester. There’s even a new term for this trend - Precision Agriculture. You’re not...

Where the data is born. Have you heard that phrase before? Coined right here in our cyber security organization, it evokes imagery of tiny 1s and 0s nestled in cribs. Ok, illustrative metaphors aside, it really does perfectly explain ADI’s posi...

Solar panel arrays can be seen everywhere these days. Just outside my office workers are finishing the installation of a large solar array on top of a new parking garage here at Analog Devices’ Wilmington campus. In my neighborhood I see severa...

2020 and the lockdown restrictions due to COVID-19 has made me think a lot more about my personal safety. I have watched closely how technology has reacted to safety needs. I’ve seen examples of innovation being pivoted quickly to healthcare ne...

The path of the photograph as we know it today began a thousand years ago when Iraqi scientist Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham built a device, later known as a camera obscura, which projected images onto a wall. It wasn’t until the late 1830s w...

Today’s automotive market is not the same old “tried-and-true” supply chain that has existed for decades. New carmakers, such as those in Silicon Valley and China, are entering the market with radically new vehicle architecture...

Reducing noise in electronic circuits has been a challenge for designers since 1844 when, from the Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. Samuel Morse tapped out “What Hath God Wrought” in Morse Code to a waiting audience at Baltimore’s U...

This week I started reading a paper entitled “Certification cost estimates for future communications radio platforms”. I really like the V model given in the paper as it shows a nice way of capturing software, hardware and an ASIC develop...

One of the greatest challenges facing designers of very high frequency receivers is accurately and quickly determining the strength of the incoming signal. Anyone who enjoys watching a TV show on their favorite streaming service knows the frustration...

Remember those colored building bricks from our childhood? Countless hours spent clicking, creating, and then dismantling to start again. The ease in which we could create a world and then take it apart just as quickly. What if evaluating tech soluti...

“Ouch! That hurt.” You bet it hurt, with thousands of volts of electricity discharging from our fingertips to that doorknob. Lucky for us, the electro-static charge may be high in voltage but very low current, so all we hurt is our pride...

By September 16th, 2017 the people on the island of Puerto Rico were aware of a large hurricane heading across the mid-Atlantic towards the Caribbean. No stranger to the destructive power of hurricanes, long-time residents still trembled at reports o...

Developing a new semiconductor can take a very long time. Even if based on an existing product, development of a semiconductor product must still go through a series of steps including product specification, preliminary design, computer simulation an...

Today’s story is how the road to success required Analog Devices to think smaller. As I type this blog it is exactly 23 years – June 2, 1997 – since I began my career at ADI. I can hear my 1997 self asking “Blog? What’s ...

Every part of ISO 26262 has an introduction which beings with “ISO 26262 is the adaption of IEC 61508 to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical and/or electronic (E/E) systems within road vehicles.” This makes ...

Today’s story is about a new solution from Analog Device’s Circuits from the Lab® (CFTL) program. For over a dozen years, these lab-tested reference circuits have been used by designers and applications engineers to speed their time t...

You have probably heard the expression “it’s a digital world.” The problem is the world is really filled with heat, light, sound, voltage, movement and thousands of other naturally occurring signals which are all analog. As shown in...

The frustration among members of Analog Devices’ temperature measurement team was palpable. Over the previous few years they had designed a series of temperature sensors with increasing accuracy – starting with models providing temperatur...

It sounds like the setup to a joke. “What’s the difference between a hamburger and an armchair?” The consequences of the punchline are no joke. They could mean the difference between alerting you to a potential fire in the armchair ...

Over the past several weeks my colleagues have blogged about the insights they shared during the EMEA Press Day we held in Limerick, and I’d like to provide a recap of some of the key markets where ADI technology is making the future possible. ...