Once ubiquitous, the incandescent light bulb has become something of a lucerna non grata lately. Banned from home lighting, long gone from flashlights, and laughed out of existence by automotive ...

Back at the previous job, I supplied customers with literature, samples, and excellent applications help regarding the use of DCPs (digitally controlled potentiometers). I remembered a zany idea I'd ...

Variable Gain Amplifiers (VGAs) implemented in Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have emerged as a critical component in modern analog and mixed-signal systems. These ...

This post discusses how I integrated a regular microphone into an Arduino setup for some serious audio experiments. I used a prewired module which holds a MAX9814 single chip microphone amplifier with ...

SINCE the work of G. T. Fechner (1859) the functional relationship between the physical luminance (input) and the perceived brightness (output) in the visual system has been taken to be logarithmic.