Articles and news - 4

A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist...

Qorvo announced the release of a Ku-band beamformer IC designed to meet the growing demand for terminals that support time-division duplexing  in compact and power-sensitive SATCOM applications...

A while back, I published the Design Idea “Simple PWM interface can program regulators for VOUT < VSENSE”. It showed some simple circuits for PWM programming of standard bucking-type regulator chips...

Microchip Technology has overcome a thermal measurement and integration barrier with the first single-chip, four-channel I2C thermocouple conditioning IC...

The basic anti-log amplifier looks like the familiar circuit of Figure...

Holtek is delighted to announce the release of its new passive infrared body detection IC, the BA76220, which is specifically designed for security...

Precision-matched capacitor pairs are commercially available items, but only in a limited range of values, working voltage, and dielectrics...

Many recent Design Ideas have involved button-pushing to control power. Some may have been more resistant to contact-bounce than others – but how can we really check that?...

This is just an ultra-quick blog post about a nostalgic IC: µPC1237...

I recently published a simple design for a platinum resistance detector 4 to 20 mA transmitter circuit...