"It's the most influential drum machine ever created – and has likely featured on more records than any other": A history of Roland drum machines, from the TR-77 t…

Roland’s innovations in drum machines have always been unique. Tracing Kakehashi’s output from his very first rhythm modules ...
EDN

The Schiit Modi Multibit: A little wiggling ensures this DAC won’t quit

Sometimes, when an audio component dies, the root cause is something electrical. Sometimes, the issue ends up being ...
IEEE

ML-Driven Transistor Self-Heating Analysis From TCAD to Large IP Circuits

Abstract: To mitigate the increasing short-channel effects of miniaturization, the channel is wrapped increasingly with gate metal and insulating oxides to improve electrostatic control while ...
Hackaday

gilbert cell

If you’ve ever used an NE602 or similar IC to build a radio, you might have noticed that the datasheet has a “gilbert cell” mixer. What is that? [Electronics for the Inquisitive Experimenter] explains ...
IEEE

DiffCkt: A Diffusion Model-Based Hybrid Neural Network Framework for Automatic Transistor-Level Generation of Analog Circuits

Analog circuit design consists of the pre-layout and layout phases. Among them, the pre-layout phase directly decides the final circuit performance, but heavily depends on experienced engineers to do ...