Electronic Design

Snubber Capacitors Stop Spikes

A snubber circuit limits voltage spikes in power converters. Snubbers are also used in the output of Class-D audio amplifiers for the same reasons (Fig. 1). When the transistor you use to switch the ...
Hackaday

Circuit VR: A Tale Of Two Transistors

Last time on Circuit VR, we looked at creating a very simple common emitter amplifier, but we didn’t talk about how to select the capacitor values, or much about why we wanted them. We are going to ...
EDN

Transistor Circuits Design

Transistors are inevitable parts of Electronic circuits. The success of a circuit design lies in the selection of proper transistor type and calculation of voltage and current flowing through it. A ...
EDN

An introduction to analog circuit design* Part 1: Transistors and Elementary Circuits

Modern circuit design is a “mixed signal” endeavor thanks to the availability of sophisticated process technologies that make available bipolar and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
Hackaday

Making A 2-Transistor AM Radio With A Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit From 1966

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
Design-Reuse

Renesas Technology Licenses Capacitor-less Twin-Transistor RAM to EMT

OTTAWA & TOKYO--May 31, 2006--Renesas Technology Corp., the world's leading microcontroller company, and Emerging Memory Technologies Inc. (EMT), a worldwide leader in embedded memory intellectual ...
Design-Reuse

Renesas Technology Develops Capacitorless Twin-Transistor RAM, Enabling Faster, More Power-efficient Embedded Memory for SoC Devices

For 65nm and later-generation processes, the advanced memory has achieved fast operation (250MHz) and low active power (148mW) in a 2Mbit test chip TOKYO, September 26, 2005 -- Renesas Technology Corp ...