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Analog Design for the Digital World

Charles J. Lord -
November 17,
2014
Ideal, Reality, and Embedded
We will start with a review of the ideal versus the real-world operational amplifier (opamp or op amp) and how to specify and basic usage of the op amp. With the new trend to include op amps in many new microcontroller chips, we will look at the caveats and proper usage of these analog circuits that are included in digital controllers.
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November 18,
2014
Analog Design for the Digital World: Resonant Circuits and Filters
In this class, we will look at the RLC resonant circuit, both designed and parasitic. Then we will use these circuits with op amps and other active circuits to build some simple filters. We will touch on the differences between these analog active filters and 'equivalent' digital filters.
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November 19,
2014
Analog Design for the Digital World: Grounding and Shielding
Ground loops, digital noise, EM radiation are all issues that we must face in mixed-signal design and test. In this class we will look at some of the design principles of keeping digital, near field, and RF noise out of our analog circuits.
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November 20,
2014
Analog Design for the Digital World: A/D and D/A
As much as we want to keep our analog and digital circuits separated, we still need them to talk to one another. In this class, we will look at the different types of analog to digital (A/D or ADC) and digital to analog (D/A or DAC) converters and some of the tradeoffs as well as design criteria.
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November 21,
2014
Analog Design for the Digital World: Design and Test
For our final Day we will wrap up by looking at the challenges of designing as well as testing analog circuits, particularly in mixed signal design. We will look at analog design and simulation tools including SPICE (around since the mid-70's!), test methods including probe loading considerations and other topics.
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Charles J. Lord

Charles J. Lord, PE is an embedded systems consultant and trainer with over 40 years' experience in system design and development in medical, military, and industrial applications. For the last twelve years, he has specialized in the integration of communication protocols into clients' products, including USB, Ethernet, and low-power wireless including ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, LoRa, and Thread. He has taught classes in these protocols for Freescale, Renesas, various universities and conferences including ESC and Arm TechCon. He has been a design partner with Freescale/NXP, Microchip, and Renesas. He also teaches webinars for various clients on IoT and embedded systems topics. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. and provides training and consulting services through his company, Blue Ridge Advanced Design, in Asheville, N.C. He is a licensed professional engineer in NC and a senior member of the IEEE. In his volunteer work at the IEEE, he has served at many levels from local to regional to board committees. He is currently the chair of the IEEE Western NC Section, NC Council and was general chair of IEEE SoutheastCon 1995 and 2017