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Multi-channel analog output module with multiplexed single-channel DAC for PLCs reference design

This multi-channel analog output module TI Design with multiplexed single channel digital to analog converter (DAC) for programmable logic controllers (PLC) illustrates the design of low-cost, ...
EDN

Using Digital Controllers to Design a Multi-Phase Buck Converter

Server and computer system architecture has increased in tandem with power delivery (PD) requirements in recent decades. This complicates regulator design since it necessitates a compromise between ...
Electronic Design

Flexible, Multi-Output Supplies Conquer Complex SoC Power Challenges

Over the last few years, system-on-chip (SoC) devices incorporating multicore processors have been appearing in a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. Samsung’s Galaxy 8 S8 smartphone is ...
Electronic Design

Automotive ICs Go “Back to the Future” with Minimalist Logic Devices

The history and continued need of small-scale integration ICs for digital-logic functions. How a serial-input/parallel-output shift register can expand I/O pins while ...
Embedded

Leveraging FPGA and CPLD digital logic to implement analog to digital converters

Designers of digital systems are familiar with implementing the 'leftovers' of their digital design by using FPGAs and CPLDs to glue together various processors, memories, and standard function ...