Take a look at the most fundamental of Smart Analog devices: the comparator. Learn what it does and where it is often used, in interfacing analog to digital, how it is set to levels. Projects can use ...

Traditional digital comparator ICs are electronic analogs of mechanical lever scales. Like their mechanical counterparts, they compare two logical signals and produce an output (typically a voltage ...

Given the high levels of single-chip integration in use for analog functions, it may seem that a basic standalone comparator IC is an anachronism. Perhaps that’s the case, but Maxim Integrated doesn’t ...