Digital signal processing is often a mystery to many people, but the underlying principles are fairly straightforward and within the grasp of anyone with a technical background. In this feature, we’ll ...

As higher resolution data converters that can perform direct IF sampling come to market, system designers need help making performance-versus-cost trade-off decisions on low-jitter clock circuits.

An Apple patent (number 7895045) for bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or ...