Although quartz crystals have served as temperature sensors, designers haven't taken advantage of the technology because few manufacturers offer the sensors as standard products (references 1 and 2 ). In contrast to conventional resistance- or ...
Aruna Rubasinghe EDN You can make a set/reset flip-flop from two NAND or NOR gates or use readily available set/reset flip-flop ICs, such as the 74HC279 quad-set/reset latch. The drawback of these methods is that they require a large amount of ...
Peter Miller EDN Like other simple, single-cell lithium-ion battery chargers, Microchip’s MCP73812 provides no means of indicating the charging status. You can remedy this situation by adding four components (Figure 1). Add one more LED, and ...
Peter Baxter EDN This Design Idea shows how to use a 63¢ (Q=1) microprocessor reset voltage detector IC in a relay coil drive circuit to greatly reduce the coil’s hold-in current. When asked to estimate the coil current of a small Omron ...
By combining charge-pump ICs with additional discrete components, this inverting design produces a negative output from a positive one with lower ripple and output impedance. An inverting charge pump takes a positive supply voltage and generates a ...
Have you ever been curious about the power consumption of an appliance? For example did you wonder how much it will cost you to leave your television in standby mode whole night? Or did you want to learn how much change your refrigerator settings ...
Several previously published Design Ideas and appnotes [ 1-4 ] show how to use many pushbuttons with a minimum number of inputs. They require an RC circuit where the timing can be measured to identify which pushbutton has been pressed, or an ADC ...
Application Note AN1629 October 2013 Pradeep Shamanna The increased popularity of short range wireless in home, building and industrial applications with 2.4 GHz band requires the system designers to understand the methods, estimation, cost and ...
Application Note TB3103 October 2013 Mihnea Rosu-Hamzescu This technical brief describes a synchronous buck power supply, based on the PIC16F753 using 100% analog control for output regulation. The implementation has the advantage of not using any ...
Application Note 25.5 November 2013 William Burdette The UCS1002 has advanced USB Port Power / Battery Charging features that can be employed to create unique charging solutions. The objective of this application note is to describe a simple AC-DC ...