In today’s world, both households and industrial facilities are exploring ways to improve power reliability by harnessing multiple energy sources, not just the electricity from the grid...
Build automatic transfer switch (ATS) with simple analog electronics
Hands-on with hobby-grade arc generator modules
Arc generator modules may be small in scale, but they offer big opportunities for hands-on exploration in electronics...
Skyworks sets new benchmark in ultra-low jitter clock buffers for high-speed connectivity
Skyworks Solutions unveiled the SKY53510/80/40 family of clock fanout buffers – designed to meet the stringent timing demands of next-generation high-speed infrastructure...
Simple but accurate 4 to 20 mA two-wire transmitter for PRTDs
Accurate, inexpensive, and mature platinum resistance temperature detectors with an operating range extending from the cryogenic to the incendiary are a gold (no! platinum!) standard for temperature measurement...
Simple diff-amp extension creates a square-law characteristic
Back on December 3, 2024, a Design Idea (DI) was published, “Single-supply single-ended inputs to pseudo class A/B differential output amp” (Ref. 1), which created some discussion about using the circuit as a full wave rectifier...
Protect your boost converter
Boost converters are non-isolated DC-DC converters that step up voltage. In some applications, users expect protection against reverse polarity, short circuits, and other anomalous conditions...
When pulses are omitted in switch-mode power supplies
Even switch-mode power supplies with a fixed switching frequency do not always show a continuing pattern of pulses. In some conditions, pulses are omitted for various reasons...
Micropower CMOS oscillator, draws only 0.5 µA
Conventional astable oscillator circuits that use CMOS logic gates, bipolar transistors or low current op Amps, often require more current than necessary...
A different twist to the power pushbutton problem: A kilowatt AC DAC
Design Idea contributors have recently explored various possibilities for ON/OFF power control using just a momentary contact “shiny modern push-button,” many of which build off of Nick Cornford’s “To press on or hold off? This does both”...
Improve the accuracy of programmable LM317 and LM337-based power sources
Several Design Ideashave employed the subject ICs to implement programmable current sources in an innovative manner. Figure shows the idea...