Ages ago, humankind crawled out of the primordial analog ooze and began to do digital. They soon noticed and quantified a fundamental need to interconnect their new quantized numerical novelties with the classic continuum of the ancestral engineer’s world. Thus arose the ADC...
Simple speedy single-slope ADC
Read isolated digital signals without power drain
Electronic systems must often isolate their inputs or outputs from the main reference common (ground). Various conditions can make necessary such galvanic isolation: the type of input sensor or driven actuator...
Tuneful track-tracing
Another day, another dodgy device. This time, it was the continuity beeper on my second-best DMM. Being bored with just open/short indications, I pondered making something a little more informative...
Active two-way current mirror
EDN Design Ideas published a design of mine in May of 2025 for a passive two-way current mirror topology that, in analogy to optical two-way mirrors, can reflect or transmit...
Ignoring the regulator's reference
DAC control (via PWM or other source) of regulators is a popular design topic here in Design Ideas (DIs) corner...
Quickly find pc-board shorts with low-cost tracer technique
A predominant failure mechanism for production pc boards is shorted traces. Finding hidden shorts is often time-consuming and frustrating...
Buck boost converter using XL6019 (bifilar choke)
This project features a compact and efficient DC-DC buck-boost converter, based on the XL6019 chip, designed to maintain a stable 12 V output over a wide input voltage range of 9 V to 30 V...
TI DLP technology delivers high-precision digital lithography for advanced packaging
Texas Instruments is enhancing the next generation of digital lithography with the introduction of the DLP991UUV digital micromirror device, the company’s highest resolution direct imaging solution to date...
Two-wire precision current source with wide current range
An interesting analog design problem is the precision current source. Many good designs are available, but most are the three-wire types that can be used as a positive or a negative polarity source, but not both from the same circuit...
Toshiba expands low-voltage single-gate logic device lineup with 21 new XSON6 packaged products
Toshiba Electronics Europe expands its 7UL series of low-voltage, single-gate logic ICs with the introduction of 21 new devices housed in the industry-standard XSON6 package...