[Firestorm_x1] put together a tutorial about interfacing an analog joystick with a microcontroller. These analog sticks are easy to find; he got his from Goodwill but we’ve got a couple in our junk ...

Also known as “smart everything,” the Internet of Things (IoT) is grabbing headlines across the industry. As any great new technology, it comes wrapped in shiny paper that touts it as the solution for ...

Lying at designers' fingertips is an ever-widening range of programmable-gain amplifiers (PGAs) to handle the interface between real-world analog outputs of sensors/transducers in data-acquisition ...

Jon Gabay, aka Dr. Gizmology, continues his do-it-yourself series. Find previous parts of this series here and here. User interfaces and systems that distribute data acquisition and control can take ...

Wanting to test the response curves on some analog parts, [Don Sauer] devised a way of using simple tools to graph analog tests on a computer. Here you can see the results of testing NPN, PNP, NMOS ...

In not-so-distant past [2], less than 20 percent of high-end digital devices had any significant amount of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) content; by comparison, in the case of design starts in 2007, more ...

ADSL technology has been a resounding success and the number of subscribers is expected to continue growing over the next several years. But with the consumer quest for more speed continuing, many ...

Analog video interfaces are essential components of digital home and personal entertainment systems. This is mainly due to their ability to deliver very high image quality with very low power ...

Description: An introduction to basic computer organization, microprocessor instruction sets, assembly language programming, the design of various types of digital, as well as analog, interfaces, and ...

Want to learn more about the merits and limitations of various interfaces between optical sensors and relays/meters? Allen Rose, Nxt Phase T&D, will compare in Poster Session digital interfaces with ...