Signal takes place Sept. 22–26 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. A limited number of $40 festival passes are available at Cat’s Cradle Sept. 22 and at Talulla’s Sept. 23. See www.signalfest.com for details ...

Those who dig beat science or perhaps its dissection want to be surrounded by it, at least for a few days. This weekend, a palpable beat passes through Chapel Hill’s music halls, bumping the same ...

The current state of engineers working in analog signal-path engineering. Who they are, their ages, experience, and their time in the practice. Signal-path design refers to the process of designing ...

The term mixed-signal is used in a wide variety of cases to describe petty much any mixture of digital and analog content. A PLL designer, largely analog, who is custom designing a small digital ...

Sensors are ubiquitous, providing the signals that feed our computer-centric world. The outputs for these sensors, though, must be signal-conditioned for computer use. This depends not only on the ...