Before jumping into a discussion of amplifiers and signal-conditioning circuitry, it is worthwhile to quickly review strain gauges. By definition, “strain” is an alteration due to an external force. A ...

National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced two new high-speed amplifier products that break the gigahertz speed barrier. Based on National’s high-speed VIP10 manufacturing process, the 1.2 ...

Logarithmic amplifier chips produce an output voltage that is directly proportional to the logarithm of an input voltage or current. They are often used in applications involving signal compression, ...

A variety of headphone amplifier types are available, but little guidance is provided in their selection. This article discusses the types available, and covers their relative strengths and weaknesses ...

We believe that changes will force amplifier manufacturers to make a greater variety of products having characteristics tailored to the specific application. We've already seen that as voltages drop, ...

Many industrial and medical applications use instrumentation amplifiers (INA) to condition small signals in the presence of large common-mode voltages and DC potentials. The three op amp INA ...

Isolation amplifiers electrically isolate input and output signals, often by inductive couplings. Isolation amplifiers, or iso-amps, may be used to protect components from potentially dangerous ...

LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), today introduced the MAAL-011141-DIE. Next generation test and measurement systems require higher performance wideband ...