Filter, audio, and RF-communications testing often require a random noise source. Figure 1’s circuit provides an RMS-amplitude regulated noise source with selectable bandwidth. RMS output is 300 mV with a 1 kHz to 5 MHz bandwidth, selectable ...
Figure 1 is a “charge pump” type V/F converter specifically designed to run from a 3.3 V rail. A 0 V to 2 V input produces a corresponding 0 kHz to 3 kHz output with linearity inside 0.05%. To understand how the circuit works assume ...
This article describes an active load circuit that can be used to simulate a battery in any state of charge. The battery simulator provides a constant-voltage load for a battery-charging circuit, independent of applied charging current. The ...
It is often desirable to determine a battery’s internal resistance to evaluate its condition or suitability for an application. Accurate battery resistance determination is complicated by inherent capacitive terms which corrupt results taken ...
.. (R SENSE should be limited to 1 kΩ unless you are adventurous). A caution on simulating this circuit. Not all op amp spice models correctly model the flow of load current in the power supply pins, an essential behavior to simulating ...
Designers often use chargers with flyback topologies to quickly charge energy-storage capacitors (references 1 and 2 ). In a flyback topology, the energy transfer takes place only when the charger’s power MOSFET is off, which effectively ...
.. only a very short time when the charge from C1 has to supply the rest of the circuit. The circuit has been simulated using LT-Spice version 4.19, as well as built and tested (Fig. 3). Figure 3. C1 has to supply the rest of the circuit of ...
Low-power, low-cost ceramic piezoelectric rate gyros are available, but they lack the low-temperature-coefficient characteristics of their quartz counterparts. However, you can use a servo amplifier to remove the dc level shift due to ...
Various switching regulator circuits exist to provide positive- to-negative conversion. Unfortunately, most controllers cannot sense the negative output directly; they require a positive feedback signal derived from the negative output. This ...
There are a surprising number of high output voltage applications for LTC’s micropower DC/DC converter family. These applications include electroluminescent panels, specialized sensing tubes and xenon strobes. One of the key features of the ...