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 ...

The Rohde & Schwarz SAM200 is a smart, advanced, robust solid-state power amplifier with integrated power detector, USB/LAN functionality, and switchable RF paths.

Many single-supply operational amplifiers are capable of rail-to-rail input operation, if they have the proper input circuitry to support this function. This article is an expansion of the blog post ...

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, ...

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 ...

Military Broadband Amplifier Guide Highlights Key Technologies And Selection Factors. Chengdu, Sichuan, China -September 28,2026 In today's fast-changing world of defense tech, you really can't ...

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, ...

Instrumentation amplifiers are analog subsystems that amplify low-level signals in the presence of high common mode noise. These differential amplifiers are optimized for DC signals and are typically ...

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 ...

One of my first jobs as a freshly minted graduate engineer involved the maintenance of a set of analogue chart recorders. They were museum pieces by the early 1990s: a motorized roll of graph paper ...