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What’s the difference between power and energy density, and why is the former so vital to power-supply design? Let’s find out...

According to statistics, 60% of the product cost depends on the initial design of itself. 75% of the manufacturing cost depends on the design specification. 70%-80% of production defects are caused by design...

Digital potentiometers are versatile devices; you can use them in many filtering and waveform-generation applications. This Design Idea describes an oscillator in which setting the resistance of two digital potentiometers independently programs the oscillation amplitude and frequency...

Analog Devices announced a new IC. The LTCR3337 is a primary battery state of health (SOH) monitor with a built-in precision coulomb counter...

Deadband circuits find applications in servo-control systems. A precision current source and a half-wave inverting rectifier form a positive deadband circuit...

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor announced a new series of Smart Power Stages (SPS) targeting multiphase VR regulators powering high-performance GPU and CPU in desktop Add-In Graphics Cards (AICs), gaming laptops, servers...

You sometimes need an inexpensive VCO that can produce evenly spaced three-phase outputs over a wide frequency range...

Farnell has started shipping the Raspberry Pi RP2040 controller chip as a stand alone device. The dual processor controller is used for the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board and offers high performance for integer workloads...

You can use the level-shift circuit to adjust an input clock signal to the proper logic-high and logic-low voltage levels, including negative voltages. This property is handy for devices that need a negative voltage, such as a charge-coupled-device sensor...

Infineon Technologies expands its growing portfolio of single-channel gate-driver ICs. The new EiceDRIVER 1EDB family of single-channel gate-driver IC provides galvanic input-to-output isolation of 3 kV rms that ensures rugged ground-loop separation...