This week’s How-To comes from our newest contributor: Logan Williams. This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer ...

Phase-locked-loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers are signal sources often employed in many types of electronic equipment. They show up as clock sources in high-frequency instruments and as local ...

In this article, the phase noise of a closed-loop, phase-locked loop (PLL) synthesizer is simulated using Agilent RF Design Environment (RFDE) and Advanced Design System (ADS) tools. The critical ...

PWM is the brainchild of Paul Whittington who, besides the name, bestows the company with a wealth of music-related product design experience. The brand's products so far have very much been a ...

All of Maxim’s 2.4GHz to 6GHz highly integrated transceivers include a high performance fractional-N synthesizer for generating the local oscillator (LO) signal. The fractional-N synthesizer generally ...

When synthesizers first became popular in the Late Jurassic 1970s, musicians needed a solid knowledge of how they worked in order to play them, mostly because they looked like this (or worse, this).