Hi, I'm Snage, your guide for Chip Design and VLSI.

Lesson one is "Levels Versus Values": digital and analog circuits sharing one chip.

Why does a Bluetooth receiver go partly deaf when the processor on its chip wakes up?

How can a 50 MHz clock drop noise right into the 2.4 GHz band?

And how can two blocks pass all their own tests, yet fail together as one chip?