Circuits & Schematics - 2

Design a wideband analog multimeter to measure AC voltages and currents from 20 Hz to 1 MHz with a selectable sensitivity from 1 mV to 100 V, while the ammeter has a selectable current sensitivity of 10 mA to 10 A. It may be surprising to offer a ...

RFID tags, circuits that detect a “wake-up” call and return a burst of data, must operate on very low quiescent current for months or years, yet have enough battery power in reserve to answer an incoming call. For smallest size, most ...

With linear regulators, you measure dropout voltage, V IN V OUT , at the minimum input voltage for which the IC sustains regulation. Low dropout means longer battery life, because the load circuit continues to operate while the battery discharges ...

The circuit in Figure 1 allows standard TTL logic levels to safely drive a high-power dc load. The circuit provides for both signal and ground isolation as well as a solid-state circuit breaker. Figure 1. An overcurrent condition in this isolated ...

There are a surprising number of high output voltage applications for LTC’s micropower DC/DC converter family. These applications include electroluminescent panels, specialized sensing tubes and xenon strobes. One of the key features of the ...

Figure 1’s circuit achieves a wider dynamic range and higher output frequency than any commercially available voltage to frequency (V-F) converter. Its 100 MHz fullscale output (10% overrange to 110 MHz is provided) is at least ten times ...

Before proceeding any further, the reader is warned that caution must be used in the construction, testing and use of this circuit. High voltage, lethal potentials are present in this circuit. Extreme caution must be used in working with, and ...

AC signals can emanate from many sources, and many of these sources are incompatible with the most popular interface voltages, such as TTL. A temptation always exists to capacitively couple the ac signals because capacitive coupling strips off the ...

Pulse width modulation (PWM) is a simple and inexpensive (therefore popular!) way to implement moderate performance (e.g., 8 bit resolution low speed) digital to analog conversion, but improvising cheap DACs isn’t the only thing PWM can do. ...

This Design Idea describes a simple way to form a reliable astable or monostable multivibrator from a set/reset latch. You may find it useful because it lets you minimize the number of standard digital ICs your design requires when absolute ...