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As summer is winding down and coming to an end, it is also the end of our Summer Champion program. Fall brings about change. #TeamEZ is working on a fresh look and more ways to interact. Keep reading for a peek behind the cur...

Help shape the ADI digital customer experience and we will give you a $100 virtual gift card! We are looking for customers* that fit the following four personas. Design Engineer Component Engineer Procurement Partner/Components Buyer Software Engine...

This blog is part of a series covering robotics topics for 2022. This month I continue with the topic of human presence detection. There are in fact, not one, but at least two and possibly three series of standards covering human presence detection. ...

In last month’s blog post we reviewed the application of Fast Precision DACs in a closed-loop system known as Hardware in the Loop. Since the DAC is driving a physical device, DC precision is required in addition to fast settling time. DC preci...

In the last blog post,  I talked about the difference between two and three electrode solutions when biasing the measurement inputs and managing CMRR performance.  Now I’d like to focus a bit more on the electrodes themselves.  O...

LTspice® is a high performance SPICE simulator software, including a graphical schematic capture interface. Schematics can be probed to produce simulation results—easily explored through LTspice’s built-in waveform viewer. LTspice&rsq...

Shortly after Analog Devices acquired Maxim Integrated, documentation teams from both companies worked together to integrate technical documents into unified templates. Consistency in documentation leads to a better customer experience and enabl...

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...