This Design Idea builds on a previous one ( Reference 1 ) to realize a precision peak detector with a bandwidth of 15 to 30 MHz or more, depending on the maximum input-signal level of your application. The crucial feature of this Design Idea is an ...
Amplification of sub-picoamp signal currents is always a design challenge, especially when gain adjustment is required that spans multiple decades. A straightforward approach to the design task would normally involve potentiometers and teraohm ...
Here is a simple frequency doubler circuit that produces a square wave output with a precise 50 percent duty cycle. There are similar circuits in the literature [References 1, 2, 3] which require adjustments or selection of some components to set ...
A fixed-frequency signal generator that can produce outputs simultaneously at multiple phases such as 45 , 90 , 135 , and 180 is sometimes needed for testing multi-channel analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), analog filters, sample/hold circuits, ...
A recent Design Idea prompted me to offer the simpler solution that I used in a recent project (Reference 1). We needed a momentary power switch with processor supervision. This supervision would allow the processor to delay a power-down request ...
Common designs for touch switches detect a decrease in resistance when a user's fingertip either connects a contact to the circuit's common ground or supplies an injection of 60-Hz ac voltage, resulting from immersion in the electrostatic ...
You can remotely measure temperature using a 4- to 20-mA current loop as long as 4000 feet and a battery-powered, white-light LED driver. You usually configure this equipment to provide a programmable, constant current to an LED from a battery ...
Among the many methods available for air flow detection, self-heated thermal flow sensors are simple, cheap, rugged, and sensitive. They rely on the relationship between airspeed (V F ) and thermal impedance (Z T = C/W) of a heated sensor as shown ...
Today’s small electronic appliances, such as washers, dryers, and stoves, use switched-mode power supplies to replace bulky, heavy, linear-power supplies. The engineer testing these power supplies, which range in current from 50 mA to 1 A, ...
This design idea presents a practical circuit that implements synchronous detection to amplify small DC voltages with high linearity and excellent noise immunity. Such circuits are required in measurements involving current shunts, load cells, ...