Op-amp design app for Android
30 May 2012
Design Automation
A new Android app from STMicroelectronics provides a modern, fast and spontaneous way for customers to design circuits using their smartphones or tablets.
The new app, called ‘ST op-amps’, is available free from the Google Play Store to help engineers design circuits using operational amplifiers frequently designed into audio, control, monitoring and communication systems. Engineers can use this app to start designing circuits with any of ST’s op-amps inside 15 seconds of activating their phone. ST has several device families targeting various applications, and ships more than two billion units in total every year.
The app allows users to browse op-amps, comparators and current-sensing products. It provides guidance on current sensing, compensation, stability criteria, op-amp parameters, schematics for popular functions, external component value calculation, package mechanical information and datasheets.
The fully developed, tested and certified app is the second Android application published by ST, and joins the Dual EE app that enables smartphones with NFC (near field communication) capabilities to read wireless tags containing ST’s RF memory chips.
With reference schematics and guides built in, ‘ST op-amps’ provides an intuitive, mobile design assistant accessible at any time or place. Touch-sensitive menus and scrollable pages make navigation through the application simple and take full advantage of the smartphone or tablet multi-touch user interface. Since much of the functionality is native to the app, an Internet connection is not required, although when one is available, a link to the ST website will be provided for further information as required.
The app can be downloaded from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colliard.ST_opamps
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