Your AV receiver has a ton of ports, and this is your guide to using each one.

In the last two blogs, we looked at calculating the noise contribution from the driving amplifier to the total ADC noise in terms of the overall SNR (signal to noise ratio). I stepped through the ...

Q: You had convinced me to wait for the new RX-A3060 until I discovered that it does not have 7.1 analog inputs for my Oppo BDP-105. Though I can connect its L/R ...

No matter the control system that we may be designing, whether it’s a HVAC monitor, motor controller or simple IoT sensor node, the system must control IO. This includes reading and writing digital IO ...

Here's why I'm asking: I have a Denon AVR 3803 receiver. I like it quite a bit, except for one glaring (IMHO) omission; in order to use my Sennheiser wireless headphones, I have to run both analog and ...

Common features are eight differential analog inputs (armored to withstand up to 120 VRMS) and seven bidirectional discrete ports. Two ports can be programmable as a counter or frequency input. The ...

Confused by analog-to-digital converter specifications? Here's a primer to help you decipher them and make the right decisions for your project. Although manufacturers use common terms to describe ...

Input devices that can handle rough and tumble environments aren’t nearly as varied as their more fragile siblings. [Alastair Aitchison] has devised a brilliant way of detecting inputs from plumbing ...

Today it seems that everything electronic is digital—a reasonable assumption considering it’s hard to find a turnable knob anywhere and values are displayed in digits everywhere. The underlying ...