As instrumentation amplifiers become less costly, they can provide improved performance in applications that operational amplifiers traditionally served. The op-amp adder in Figure 1 has a few ...

It’s been a running battle in some quarters for years, whether analog sensor processing is better than digital. Proponents of digital are sometimes driven by lack of familiarity with analog circuitry, ...

Fig 1. An op amp easily accomplishes addition, while a Gilbert cell handles the task of multiplication.caption of image Fig 2. Two digital words are added by combining a series of full adder cells.

At least two classic ways exist to address applications requiring sampling of a sum of analog voltages. The most common way is to cascade a classic analog adder and a sample-and-hold amplifier. A ...