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How to Understand Public Key Cryptography Without Formulas

Public key cryptography is a technology used for information security. It can be utilized to implement authorization schemes to protect access to data, guarantee data or code provenance and integrity, or be part of more complex key establishment algo…

  • Barkhausen Criterion for Generating Oscillators

    Barkhausen Criterion for Generating Oscillators

    KCC
    •  Analog Employees 
    By Kuo-Chang and Marie-Eve Carre When do we have an Amplifier or an Oscillator? When designing an amplifier, we all have faced the risk to see it unstable and get an oscillator instead. The opposite is true as well: when trying to design an oscillat...
  • What Is A Transparent Cell?

    What Is A Transparent Cell?

    KCC
    •  Analog Employees 
    What is a transparent cell or structure in electronics? Most of us and especially our colleagues involved in data converters, deal with such objects without noticing their transparent characters. The best example is the famous R-2R ladder one finds...
  • What is The Continuity of Engineering?

    What is The Continuity of Engineering?

    LVickery
    •  Analog Employees 
    Setting the Stage  A network of working relationships that stretched far beyond my technical group, a sense of pride and accomplishment, and a unique opportunity to inspire and encourage a new generation of engineers. How does one achieve all t...
  • The Limits of AI: Testing ChatGPT’s Performance in Engineering

    The Limits of AI: Testing ChatGPT’s Performance in Engineering

    alexandergoldstein
    •  Analog Employees 
    With ChatGPT’s release, what seemed like science fiction only a few months ago now appears plausible: AI is finally here. Attention-grabbing headlines everywhere demonstrate how AI can write code, teach languages, compose music, and generate ar...
  • It was all Started by a Mouse

    It was all Started by a Mouse

    simonbramble
    •  Analog Employees 
    •  Super User 
    The Bramble family was on vacation in France back in 2019 when we visited Disneyland Paris. While waiting for Mickey Mouse in The Parade at the end of the day, I found myself standing next to a man who looked identical to a lecturer I had at Brunel U...
  • High Voltage Amplifiers Simplify MOSFET Leakage Test

    High Voltage Amplifiers Simplify MOSFET Leakage Test

    hirobert
    •  Analog Employees 
    Written by   hirobert and  mkaiserm  This blog post explains how to implement a leakage test using a common piece of equipment, a source measure unit (SMU) and introduces a simplified circuit based on high volt...
  • Memories That Disappear Into a Hayes

    Memories That Disappear Into a Hayes

    simonbramble
    •  Analog Employees 
    •  Super User 
    It’s a small world… but I wouldn’t want to paint it. The year was 1986 and I was a student studying for my A-Levels and looking to start my electronics degree at Brunel University in London. One company that offered to pay for me t...
  • Which End is The Hot End?

    Which End is The Hot End?

    simonbramble
    •  Analog Employees 
    •  Super User 
    Who says applications engineers never do any practical electronics? Well, it has been a while I admit. An annual ten thousand Inbox messages and six thousand Sent Items means I don’t get much time to power up my soldering iron. But since lockdo...
  • It’s Always the Electrolytics

    It’s Always the Electrolytics

    simonbramble
    •  Analog Employees 
    •  Super User 
    A friend asked me a few years ago: “You are an electronics engineer aren’t you?” Somewhat hesitant to reply, I answered that I was. This is normally greeted with questions such as: “Can you fix my PC?”