Most oscilloscopes are fitted with filters to help improve measurement by reducing overall noise in an acquisition to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Even the most basic oscilloscopes include an ...
Driving an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for optimum mixed-signal performance is a design challenge. Figure 1 shows a standard ADC driver circuit. During ADC acquisition time, the sampling ...
My previous column described the Sallen-Key circuit for a low-pass filter. At times, you will not find a low-pass filter with the specifications you need in an anti-alias circuit, so you might decide ...
Listen to the pop, sizzle, and hum. Look at the bars and wavy lines. These and other characteristics of electromagnetic interference (EMI) are very familiar. RF energy is radiated from a culprit ...
In my May blog post, I described the construction of a low-pass filter that used op-amps, capacitors, and resistors. I ignored thermal drift, long-term accuracy, and other characteristics and tested ...
Binary search, a decrease-and-conquer approach, plays an important role in testing today�s low-pass filters. When testing a low-pass filter, generally you have to use an arbitrary waveform generator ...