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Texas Instruments' Bill Klein Signal Chain Articles. Given the interest it has provoked the introductive article on "The MIDAS Touch for Signal Chain" , these articles are for the deepening the argument, proposing the presentation of Bill Klein in text format and then introduce a series of articles, written in parallel with Bill and in collaboration with Farnell on "signal chain", already known as MIDAS. So articles about Mixed_signal, Interface, Data_conversion, Amplification and Sensors will be published in the coming days.

Striking Gold in Advanced Analogue From Farnell
Today’s world is heavily reliant upon monitoring and control of a wide variety of physical effects, for example to utilise resources such as energy more efficiently, and to realise improvements in quality of life. Examples of electronic products that are used to achieve these goals include fuel metering and exhaust monitoring systems, medical scanners, portable health monitoring instruments, remote equipment-status monitors, and advanced security systems. Although the complex processing algorithms that make much of this possible are typically accomplished most quickly and economically within the digital domain, the natural world does not follow the digital roadmap defined by Moore’s Law, and with the human desire for faster and cheaper; it remains resolutely analogue in nature. Hence, engineers must continue to address the challenges in accurately sensing signals in the analogue world and delivering these faithfully to a point where they can be converted into the digital domain.

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