Bill Klein, Texas Instruments, Burr-Brown Products Group, Tucson, AZ. My caller last week had a working system, however, life was not all roses. He had joined the ever-increasing group of engineers ...

Inductors can be found in many of the devices you use every day, but if you’ve been working only with DC in your projects there’s a good chance you’ve never needed to know anything about them. Now’s ...

The lowly diode, a device with only two leads, can nonetheless do many things. Diodes can detect, rectify, suppress, emit light, detect light, change capacitance, emit microwaves and more. This wide ...

“The initial family of 29 devices provides the blocking, free-wheeling, fly-back and other diode functions commonly found in a wide range of applications, such as ac-dc chargers, ac-dc adapters, dc-dc ...