Analog electronics remain the fundamental link between the continuously varying real world and the discrete domain of digital processing. These circuits, which include amplifiers, filters, oscillators ...

LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from ...

An electronic dice is always an enjoyable project, which is easy to implement with some lines of program code on a microcontroller, or with a few digital components. However, implementing an ...

The electronic analogue of the push-button switcher allows you to selectively turn on one or another load from several possible ones, while simultaneously disabling the previously turned on load of ...

Looking back on analog semiconductors stocks’ Q4 earnings, we examine this quarter’s best and worst performers, including ...

Andy was at the 2026 Analog Aficionados event, held on February 26 at DesignCon at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The who’s who of analog electronics were in attendance at the annual meetup. For ...

Analog computers have been used extensively in the past, for things like tide calculations, but in the semiconductor era things have mostly gone digital. Even where you have analog elements, like DRAM ...

The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current ...

Andy’s back from the 2026 Analog Aficionados meetup, held at DesignCon this year, and pieces together some history of the event as well as launching a downloadable annual calendar commemorating the ...