Although white LEDs are common in a variety of lighting applications, their 3 to 4 V forward-voltage drop makes low-voltage applications challenging. Charge pumps and other ICs are available for driving white LEDs, but they generally don't work ...
Alfredo Saab and Randall White, Maxim Integrated Products EDN White-noise generators generate a flat graph of output-power density versus frequency. These generators are useful for testing circuits that have an extended low-frequency or dc ...
Dan Christman, Maxim Integrated Products EDN RS-232 communications with one µC and more than one remote system can be problematic, because most µCs contain only one UART, which provides an interface between synchronous and asynchronous ...
Robert Brewer Electronic Design The proportional-control solenoids used in some industrial hydraulic systems are usually driven by microcontrollers or programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Such complex drivers typically require several different ...
Mark Cherry EDN Portable systems often include circuitry that derives power from an external source, such as USB. When the system disconnects from the USB supply, a battery takes over and supplies current via a dc/dc converter. A diode-OR ...
Martin Rowe EDN When converting a negative-output power supply to one with less-negative output, you must ensure that variations in input voltage don’t affect the output voltage. All such supplies include an internal reference voltage that ...
Philip Simpson, Maxim Integrated Application Note 1186 When a processor-controlled device must be guaranteed to operate, designers often choose to reset the processor periodically rather than rely on a watchdog circuit. In low-power systems the ...
Eric Schlaepfer, Maxim Integrated Products EDN Microprocessors, microcontrollers, and SOCs (systems on chips) often need a reset pulse to initialize properly. Many of these devices also use separate I/O- and core-voltage supplies. When you use ...
Navid Mostafavi EDN The step-up switching-converter circuit in Figure 1 presents a familiar problem: If you shut down boost converter IC 1 by pulling its /SHDN input low, external inductor L 1 and forward-biased Schottky diode D 1 allow the load to ...
To test products in my R D lab, I build many universal data-acquisition systems that connect to a PC or another controller through RS-232 links or LANs. These small systems typically include multiple ADC, DAC, and digital-I/O channels to control ...