https://community.element14.com/The community for engineers, technicians, makers and creators.en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/events/c/e/1757Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:529a9eaa-7e14-484f-81eb-8bffc6ab37edJoRatcliffeJoin this webinar to examine how DC coupled, high speed Digitizers operate and discover the technical challenges that emerge as bandwidths extend beyond 1 GHz. We will take a focused look at the limitations inherent in conventional high-speed Digitizer front ends, including linearity, noise performance, dynamic range, and system level coupling issues. There will be a live demonstration of a new Analog Devices evaluation kit engineered to directly address these challenges, supported by detailed performance parameters and measurement data that demonstrate what next generation Digitizer designs look like. In less than an hour, this session will cover: A primer on the principles of DC-Coupled, high-speed Analog-to-Digital Converters The applications (and challenges!) associated with high-speed Digitizers and how they are solved with ADI’s New ADMX6001 Digitizer The different approaches to resolving/mitigating these challenges A demonstration of a high-speed Digitizer and how challenges can be addressed, using an ADMX6001 eval kit Live Q&A The Presenters: Will Drachler - Principal Marketing Engineer - Analog Devices Will is a Principal Marketing Engineer in the Instrumentation System Solutions group. He has more than 40 years of experience at Analog Devices spanning linear solutions, optical systems, and the digitization of high‑speed signals. Will holds a BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology. LinkedIn: Will Drachler Malcolm Sherman-Godfrey - Senior Engineer, Systems Design/Architecture - Analog Devices Malcolm is a systems design engineer in ADI's Instrumentation System Solutions group, experienced in architecting RF and precision elements of high-speed digitizers and vector network analyzers. He has a BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has been with ADI since completing an MSEE at the Georgia Institute of Technology. LinkedIn: Malcolm Sherman-Godfrey Jordan Ratcliffe - Marketing Program Senior Specialist - element14 Community Jordan Ratcliffe will be your host from the element14 Community for Introductions and Q&A. LinkedIn: Jordan Ratcliffe More about Analog Devices: Every day, electronic devices are becoming smarter with greater integration. Body sensors can monitor our health. Cars can drive themselves. Networked homes can power up when needed. At Analog Devices, we’re solving engineering problems and empowering design innovation, enabling our customers to create products that shape our world. We invent highly integrated solutions that make technology seamless. Our innovative and high-performance analog and mixed-signal products and technologies make systems smaller and smarter, with enhanced security and increased energy efficiency. We channel our collective expertise to stretch the limits of technology, understand your needs, and help you get to market faster. You can find out more about Analog Devices here . Attend and Learn to Earn a Certificate Watch the webinar until the end to earn a certificate. Read here for more information about how to get your certificate: /members-area/support/w/site-faq/27798/how-do-i-earn-a-certificate-for-viewing-a-webinar-or-webcast Are you prepared? This webinar uses the online service on24 to deliver the presentation. Click through and check that you meet the minimum system requirements before attending.linearityanalog-to-digital converterADI-e14DC coupled high speed digitizerADMX6001analog devicesdigitizersystem level coupling1ghznoise performancedynamic rangehttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235368Tue, 05 May 2026 17:18:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b24b6a7c-d190-42a1-b5fd-6772fc4cd19dbalajivan1995I am viewing the updated homepage from mobile and I think there's a bug. This section is supposed to be horizontally scrollable, but it's actually vertically scrolling.https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235367Tue, 05 May 2026 16:55:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4214f882-8c0a-437d-b405-f0d7bb6c85c6dougwI kind of like it. Initial thoughts: It does really put an emphasis on making a well crafted, informative title to your postings, since that is all you have to go on in deciding wheter to click on a post. It would be great if hovering on a post, popped up more detail.https://community.element14.com/technologies/3d-printing/f/forum/56568/i-am-thinking-to-buy-a-3d-printer-but-my-budget-hangs-around-200-dollars-i-am-a-student-and-need-it-for-small-non-comlex-designs/235366Tue, 05 May 2026 16:17:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f6161d9-e695-435e-94c9-9683ef08c503MattThere are a bunch of accessories you might want to consider getting.. I've blogged about it previously, so I'll paste in the list I collated: £3 Digital Caliper ; essential for designing your own 3D models! I've recently upgraded to the Duratool steel caliper and really like it; Duratool steel caliper £5 3D Printer tool kit ; there are multiple kits to choose from, but the trimming knife, scraper, cleaning needle, tweezers, and pliers deburring kit is more than enough IMO. £6 Storage box (216x165x95mm); sure you could print one, but they're cheap, well built & have foam inserts. Great for storing all your accessories. £3 Humidity sensors ; for putting with your filament to warn you when the humidity is too high. £7 Amazon Vacuum Bags and Hand Pump ; for storing your filament away from moisture. £3 Desiccant ; orange reusable silica gel beads for keeping moisture away from your filament in storage. Allow 50g per spool. In v.sunny weather you can even dry them outdoors. £50 Ikea Air purifier ; in my tests it does a good job filtering PM2.5 particles. New filters are £5 each. £6 Dust Cover ; There are times that you won’t be using your 3D printer for a while, so a dust cover is a good investment for the A1 Mini (45x45x48cm).https://community.element14.com/technologies/3d-printing/f/forum/56568/i-am-thinking-to-buy-a-3d-printer-but-my-budget-hangs-around-200-dollars-i-am-a-student-and-need-it-for-small-non-comlex-designs/235365Tue, 05 May 2026 16:08:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:52b5b831-d6ee-46b8-8996-9ace8ca28ecaAniket_kumar_rajTaking notes...https://community.element14.com/technologies/3d-printing/f/forum/56568/i-am-thinking-to-buy-a-3d-printer-but-my-budget-hangs-around-200-dollars-i-am-a-student-and-need-it-for-small-non-comlex-designs/235364Tue, 05 May 2026 16:04:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:274947c2-49ce-4bb0-93f3-ab26728e7593MattAbsolutely.. they're often on sale. Then you can get some filament without breaking the budget.https://community.element14.com/technologies/3d-printing/f/forum/56568/i-am-thinking-to-buy-a-3d-printer-but-my-budget-hangs-around-200-dollars-i-am-a-student-and-need-it-for-small-non-comlex-designs/235363Tue, 05 May 2026 15:54:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:61f5f5a9-dd9e-4877-b899-4cdc7b83d9d8rsjawale24Bambu Lab A1 or A1 mini. They were on sale few months back. Keep checking the website for future salehttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235362Tue, 05 May 2026 15:38:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:911315fe-4a47-465a-a05c-1df08a77b7d3cstantonThanks for the kind words Steve.https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56909/learning-fpga/235361Tue, 05 May 2026 15:28:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8162d643-528b-4b91-ac4e-b5250dd4a892dang74This might be controversial but I think the best way to learn FPGA is not to jump into the HDL languages right away. If you are using the Altera environment use their block diagram editor which allows you to string together logic gates and flip flops in a schematic.... but don't stop there... use their wizard to create parametrized counter and compare blocks. You may have heard that unlike software, FPGAs are parallel.. well that is true, but you can create sequences by decoding count values (of a clocked counter) for instance... or you can have a series of interdependent clocked registers that only advance when certain conditions occur. I would spend a month to see what can be accomplished with counters, gates and compare blocks before moving to HDL. The behavior of your designs can be tested using ModelSim (which I assume is still packaged with their software) or if you are working with a development board on Signal Tap II (their embedded logic analyzer)https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235360Tue, 05 May 2026 15:15:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b4794a04-4e09-4bfd-a06a-f887fc90f6a9skruglewiczHi cstanton , I wanted to reach out and say that the new homepage looks fantastic! It truly feels like a major improvement—the layout is impressive, and the overall aesthetic is much fresher. I can definitely appreciate the immense amount of hard work and late hours you and the entire team have poured into this redesign. It’s clear that a lot of thought went into balancing the different types of content we all look for. The new navigation is sleek, and as I spend more time using it in my daily workflow, I’ll likely have a few specific suggestions to share. For now, though, I just wanted to congratulate you on a successful launch. It’s a big step forward for the community! Best regards, Steve Khttps://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235359Tue, 05 May 2026 15:04:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:eb13c373-8a11-44f2-b96b-aa0fe7037dc8robogaryMore feedback - I didn't mention my first comments were posted viewing with the phone app. Logged in and viewed with a PC , the webpage presentation is significantly better viewed with a PC. I like it using the PC. The phone app doesn't translate as well because the graphics have to be overwhelming to keep them legible.https://community.element14.com/technologies/open-source-hardware/f/forum/56877/the-pam8403-amplifier-is-very-noisy/235358Tue, 05 May 2026 15:01:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bb70ce50-e172-468c-9249-347553ee2c79me_CrisOf course, you can see in the post.https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235357Tue, 05 May 2026 14:55:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f34c4202-8fac-4389-a4a6-dbd3b25a2d68Andrew JThat's a shame really as it is the one thing it's crying out for in my view. Still, I like the refresh and I daresay the team can make further tweaks and adjustments.https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235356Tue, 05 May 2026 14:32:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:54e62650-f997-4d4e-b3e6-cb0b757dbd39cstanton[quote userid="188728" url="~/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235354"]I think overall it's really good. I agree with the comments about having to scroll to the member provided content through the other material - how often will "Featured Content" change? QotM is going to be once a month so when you've seen it, you've seen it. When I visit the site, which is daily, sometimes multiple times a day, I'm generally interested in Forum, blogs, webinars, other content in that order. As others have said, I don't need to see my profile details up top, under the member content would be fine for me.[/quote] Sure, I may be able to cook up something that works with the widgets in a smarter manner. [quote userid="188728" url="~/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235354"]In terms of the forum and blog information (latest) does that re-order based on provided comments. I.e. if someone comes across a post not on the front page, say from a month ago, and comments, will that post then appear back on the front page?[/quote] It's purely based on creation date. Not last activity on that content date. Verint (the platform we base the community on) does not surface details to allow that to happen. 'Activity' is a different widget entirely and something I'm still looking into. There's a raw 'activity' widget on What's New on the element14 Community so you can see what that looks like right now.https://community.element14.com/members-area/support/f/forum/56887/nested-comments-are-unintuitive-and-there-may-be-a-bug/235355Tue, 05 May 2026 14:29:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:1aa1d5fa-9dd0-4b3a-afc2-2118dd43dcc0cstantonHey shabaz , Thanks for the feedback and going into detail about how the site works (or doesn't). Our resident UI/UX wizard Alanta Lee should have reached out to you by now to capture more detail from you, it'd be great if you can spare the time to engage with them so we can have your feedback put into the 'right development pipeline' (the devs, management, etc). [quote userid="123345" url="~/members-area/support/f/forum/56887/nested-comments-are-unintuitive-and-there-may-be-a-bug"] 1. Selecting "Best" makes comments disappear When the ordering is set to "Best", the most recent comments won't appear, because they have not been liked, since they are newly created. Since 'Best' is the default selection, this means people can't see the comments. I think most people will assume "Best" is supposed to order all comments, not hide some from view. Please can "Best" behavior be changed, or maybe even deleted or not made the default? 2. Selecting to order by "Newest" doesn't show the newest comments first I get that where a comment is nested, selecting "Newest" might show the root comment first, but sometimes it shows irrelevant comments that are not part of the root. I believe this is a bug. Example from (+) Simple DCR (Direct Conversion Receiver) – Part 2: Common Emitter Amplifier - element14 Community : [/quote] There are a few things that're going on here: 1. Verint being Verint. Behind the scenes Verint Community devs have made choices on how this should behave, and that makes it a 'core' widget feature that they need to change. They've made these decisions based on: What reporting is recorded when viewing a comment or forum/reply thread, How customers are charged for 'views' per page based on how reporting is recorded, and server load when presenting content. Verint at the moment is also in a bit of a 'development freeze' because they're jumping from version 12 to version 14 (we're on version 12) and they have recently restructured . Chaos ensues. 2. We have some elements under our control that we may be able to investigate, comment and forum replies widgets can be configured to show more or less comments, but fundamentally can't change entire behaviour. I will need to spend time investigating what we can do with those, but more importantly, look at how we can cascade that across all of our groups and applications. That's no small task, and I don't have a timeline at the moment for looking into this, but I'll look into this. 3. We also don't want to inadvertently overload our servers, and we also can't serve up 'all comments all of the time', not only for server load reasons, but scraping reasons, AI and SEO being what it is, that's no small amount of traffic and we want to make sure the site works for actual members. It's something we work on regularly. [quote userid="123345" url="~/members-area/support/f/forum/56887/nested-comments-are-unintuitive-and-there-may-be-a-bug"] 3. 50% of the window is wasted The root of this problem is that the blogs have a lot of wasted screen space on the left side. Is it possible to make the area with "Blog Post Actions", "Engagement", etc., be narrower? [/quote] This is a 'core out of the box' theme for Verint, so not one we can easily tinker with. That being said, I do experiment with the presentation of this and it's something that I'll play with over time. Having that 'side bar' serves more than one purpose, and part of that can be to show details, metrics, and content that 'may be of interest' to you and others. I think there's no right answer to this one, but I do hear that "I want to see the content of the post, more than what I can do with it", but that visual style and language is one that needs to be consistent across the majority of the site, and we go back to the point above of "how can we cascade that to all of our groups?" that's definitely an 'us' problem. [quote userid="123345" url="~/members-area/support/f/forum/56887/nested-comments-are-unintuitive-and-there-may-be-a-bug"] Finally, that red highlighted box shows the actual newest comment. But as you saw in the first and second screenshot, this actual newest comment was part of the second set of nesting. To me this seems a bug, but even if that is fixed, it will still be unintuitive, and will still be very hard to find, unless that "Best" default selection is not the default for users. [/quote] Yes, you may have picked up on a genuine bug here, and we'll look into that and raise with Verint (again,see above on what can affect that at the moment). It took me a little longer than usual to respond to this one, because I don't want it to be another "ah, well, that's verint and there's not a lot we can do about that" reply, so let's get some analysis of what we want changing, I can do some digging into what we can change, and then work with the dev' team to see about cascading any changes instead.https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235354Tue, 05 May 2026 14:02:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b0c1d2e4-0ea0-4604-aeaf-01de649ff5deAndrew JI think overall it's really good. I agree with the comments about having to scroll to the member provided content through the other material - how often will "Featured Content" change? QotM is going to be once a month so when you've seen it, you've seen it. When I visit the site, which is daily, sometimes multiple times a day, I'm generally interested in Forum, blogs, webinars, other content in that order. As others have said, I don't need to see my profile details up top, under the member content would be fine for me. In terms of the forum and blog information (latest) does that re-order based on provided comments. I.e. if someone comes across a post not on the front page, say from a month ago, and comments, will that post then appear back on the front page?https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56913/alejandro-embedded-systems-and-hardware-acceleration-enthusiast/235353Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4df26552-bfad-4a23-8b80-bc12ccf89618battlecoderWelcome! That's a very interesting list of topics for sure, and there's several people here working on those fields or with those technologies,so I'm sure there will be plenty of projects, podcasts, community posts and discussions that will interest you. Looking forward to seeing you around!https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/56914/we-have-made-changes-to-the-element14-community-homepage/235352Tue, 05 May 2026 13:29:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:1f8cdcb9-417a-4110-acb9-da21700c22fbcstantonAlways happy to hear people's thoughts. Yes the 'what's new' page is one we want to surface a bit better, at the moment it's hidden away on the top mega menu under 'community hub'.