The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Board-level designers often have concerns about the proper way to handle grounding for integrated circuits (ICs) which have separate analog and digital grounds. Should the two be completely separate ...

A buck-boost single-inductor dc-dc regulator provides bidirectional operation. In one direction the regulator takes current from the supercapacitor and produces a regulated voltage to the load. In the ...

Mixed-signal PCB design grounding problems can be avoided by paying attention to where the current flows. In this tutorial, we will show how ground plane cuts and multiple mixed-signal ICs resolve the ...