From time to time I receive emails inquiring about tools availability and comparison or about where to find a tool for a specific task. Gary Smith, Founder and Principal Analyst at Gary Smith EDA, has ...

The distinction between analog and digital signals is very simple, but it can still be a challenge to wrap one's mind around the concepts that define the two systems.

What you end up getting is a sequence of signal samples or digital values that have converted a continuous analog signal to a discrete signal or discontinuous signal. And as you’ll see this very ...

Analog signal-path design engineers often specialize in specific job roles depending on company requirements and needs that arise within a project scope (Fig. 1).

Since the shut-off of analog signals, ... Plotted on a visual chart called a constellation diagram, these samples indicate how the detected I and Q signals vary from the ideal. (See Figure 1.) The I ...

The first generation of video and audio cables were designed with analog signals in mind. An analog signal represents the information it is intended to convey by presenting a continuous waveform ...