EngineerZone Spotlight

In a recent press release, Analog Devices featured a new 3D ToF camera so now seems a good time to cover the IEC 61496 series of human presence detection standards as part of my 2022 focus on functional safety of robots. For a review of the ADI 3D To...

There is an ever-growing demand for faster access to insights. In electronic Instruments those insights can be derived from AC and DC analysis or in some cases a combination of both. The combination of precision performance at speed or over a wide ba...

In the previous blog post, we covered several applications where Fast Precision DACs add value. In today’s post we will focus on Hardware in the Loop, a new application that has found an opportunity with the increasing electrification of vehicl...

Are You the Next EZ Summer Champion?  Don't miss out on the opportunity to become an EZ Summer Champion, win awards, and a gift card! We've extended the program until August 12th to give participants an opportunity to win big! Help eac...

In the last blog post we showed a DC coupled biopotential configuration using the AD4130-8 and referenced a third electrode used to bias the body to midsupply.  We mentioned this was not a true Right Leg Drive (RLD) and that this may be acceptab...

For more than five decades, Analog Devices has led the electronics industry in the development of analog building blocks for precision signal chains. A recurrent theme which has emerged more strongly in each successive decade has been the demand for ...

Robots, cobots, and mobots...no, I am not going the way of the Wizard of Oz, but I am here to chat about mobots in particular.  Matching the words for robots and cobots (collaborative robots), I have heard the term mobots (mobile robots) us...

There is still time to become the next EZ Summer Champion!  EngineerZone is made up of hardworking and diligent members and ADI employees. Do you have what it takes to help others and get rewarded with points, badges, and the potential to win a ...

When Analog Device's Young Professionals Network (YPN) was asked to support Science Buddies' upcoming project launch on autonomous vehicles, we knew it was a match like no other. Science Buddies is a nonprofit organization who aims ...

Now that we gave an AC coupled example (AD8233) in our previous blog post, the recent release of the AD4130-8 is a great opportunity to discuss a DC coupled input signal chain.  If you recall in the second blog, we mentioned that DC coupled sign...

There is an ever-increasing desire for more insights and more data from the world around us. To extract those insights, it can mean that instruments must carry out both time domain and frequency domain analysis. The underlying circuity in the in...

PFL stands for power and force limiting. PFL is one of the ways robots can work collaboratively and become cobots (collaborative robots). The essence of PFL is that even if the robot and human come into contact the human should be unharmed. Of course...

We are excited to launch our Summer Champion program starting today, June 6th! We are rolling out six new badges for you to earn a total of 850 points. The first 10 people to earn the three verified answer badges will receive the EZ Hero badge a...

We are pleased to announce the EngineerZone Outstanding Contribution and People's Choice winners! Last week ADI hosted their annual, internal General Technical Conference (GTC) to showcase ADI engineering talent and innovation. GTC consists...

Notifications around end of life on semi-conductor components and supply constraints are now a daily customer concern that application engineers are faced with.  On the ADI side, traditional queries relating to product functionality or perf...

In last month's blog post we discussed the tradeoffs between AC and DC coupled signal chains when measuring small signals in the presence of much larger DC offsets and low frequency interferers.  We also showed that the location of the high-...

In last month's blog post we introduced the applications requiring precision and wide bandwidth and focused on the output drive signal chain built around AD3552R. In this chapter we will analyze how those applications can benefit from a faster precis...

This blog continues my series of robot safety posts. In my last blog, I jumped ahead to the more exciting SSM (speed and separation monitoring) safety function. This month I need to get back to basics and discuss stopping functions. Stopping is somet...

Welcome back to our Inside EZ blog. This month I will be highlighting some of our new improvements, recent blogs, as well as a short interview with one of our newest EZ Super Users. Meet Our EZ Members Meet our newest Super User,  Rocha.&nb...

As we strive to be more inclusive, ADI is considering its responsibility for the language used in millions of lines of software code, hardware schematics, and in everyday technical conversations. ADI is proactively examining the documentation fo...

Don't miss ‘ADI Tech Day: Tomorrow's Innovation Made Possible Today’, next Thursday, April 28th for an afternoon full of live demos and sessions. Hear from over thirty ADI experts who will share how ADI's technology and solutions are...

In last month's blog post we started to discuss the many interferers associated with making biopotential measurements.  Since these interferers can have much higher amplitudes than the signal of interest and overlap with the signal frequency ran...

A cobot, or collaborative robot, is a type of robot optimized for collaborative applications. Working collaboratively is the pinnacle of human robot human as described in my previous blog in this series, see here. When people think of collaborative r...

Successful analog semiconductor products tend to stay on the market much longer than their digital-focused counterparts. This means that, over the years, a huge catalog of precision analog products has accumulated. In the analog world, Analog Devices...

The countdown to MODEX 2022 has begun. MODEX 2022 is scheduled to take place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia from March 28-31, 2022.  Get a glimpse into the next wave of technology for machine vision, robotics, and inert...