This resource provides clear explanations of how switching regulators work and how voltage boosting is achieved efficiently ...

Sharma, Fu, and Ansari et al. developed a tool for converting plain-text instructions into photonic circuit designs with the ...

Lighting a string of LEDs at a constant brightness requires driving it with a regulated current. A boost converter is commonly used to step up the voltage to a level high enough to bias the LEDs on ...

In a balanced op-amp circuit, the op-amp inputs see equal impedances looking into the circuit. Balanced circuits provide better performance by cancelling some input errors and have a simple R F /R I ...

The Design Idea in Figure 1 indicates a low-battery condition in an audio test instrument that is powered by four AA cells. As the instrument was otherwise an all-discrete design, this same approach ...

The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once penned a letter to a friend in which, at the end, he wrote: “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” This quote is quite ...

When I was recently debugging a design, I discovered that a short circuit existed from a ground plane to a power plane. I did not have access to a milliohmmeter or an equivalent tester for locating ...

What is the key to a conversion-based design? As little design as possible. Discover the psychological benefits of a simple design. It’s a question that marketers and designers ask themselves every ...