Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...

Square-root-calculating circuits find wide use in instrumentation and measurement systems for such tasks as calculating the rms (root-mean-square) value of an arbitrary waveform, for example. Hence, ...

After using the DFB, the square root component is stunningly trivial in its application. Just plonk it on the schematic and configure it. Obviously its internals are far more complex and you can get ...

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