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-...
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 s...
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...
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...
From the healthcare example in our previous post on data anonymization, we can see that private information can leak even when all of the obvious personally identifiable information (PII) has been removed. Ideally, there would be a way to capture the...
Remember when the CEO of LifeLock posted his real social security number on their advertisements? It turns out that was not a great idea. It was meant to demonstrate confidence in LifeLock's ability to prevent identity theft, but instead resulted in ...
I have been a member of the industrial robot standard group ISO 10218 for some years now. However, I have only written a few blogs on the functional safety of robots. Part of the problem has been where to start. Is it possible to accurately desc...
As mentioned in EZ 2021: Reflections on a Great Year, our new Inside EZ blogs will share a wide range of content, updates, and community improvements. In this EZ Blogs series, you'll meet our new blog authors and discover new opportuni...
In this new precision low power blog series, we will take a deep dive into the challenges of making biopotential measurements. We will also address some of the common topics that frequently come up, such as:
Designing a precision low power signal ch...
Take a look around: while you may not hear them due to their lack of a combustion engine, electric vehicles (EVs) are quietly taking up a larger share of the road. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum, 2.3 million electric vehicles were sol...
In Part 2 of our Garbled Circuit series, we saw that it would be possible to evaluate arbitrary functions privately (that is, without revealing the inputs to the function to be computed) if we had a way for Alice to send Bob some information he needs...
In Part 1 of our Garbled Circuits series, we found a problem-specific solution for rescuing our shipwrecked friends. However, the solution didn't provide a general approach for computing functions privately (without revealing their inputs). One way t...
In the next couple of months, I will introduce the concept of functional safety and robots, including cobots (collaborative robots) and mobots (mobile robots). However, I haven’t covered ISO 13849 in previous safety matters blogs...
You have been shipwrecked on a remote island and need to escape. One of the other survivors discovers an abandoned air strip with a small airplane that appears to still be in working condition. Unfortunately, the combined weight of you and the other ...
In previous security solutions blogs, we discussed the importance of data integrity, and why encryption on its own does not provide semantic security. We introduced message authentication codes (MACs) and digital signatures as ways to authenticate da...
Welcome back to ADI's New Product Round-up. This blog shares a quick summary of products featured in press releases from the previous quarters, so you can stay well-informed on the latest technology from some of the best designers in the world. ...
If functional safety was declared illegal tomorrow and I could only keep one thing from the functional safety standards, it would be requirements management. Of course, requirements management predates functional safety but to put it another way, in ...
Happy New Year! EngineerZone's "Top Topics" blog is changing for the better! In an effort to bring you a wider variety of content and updates, this blog will take on a new name. Look for the first installment of "Inside EZ" coming in the next few mon...
This blog is number seventy-one in my safety matters series which concentrates on issues related to industrial functional safety. For Christmas I try to do something different with my blog and this year I struggled to find something which is not too ...
It seems as if everything we buy today, from refrigerators to toothbrushes, are "smart" devices that are connected to an app and the internet. So how can we add security to these devices that have considerably less processing power than tra...
