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Overheat/Overcooling Circuit Breaker

This project automatically switches off the electrical flow in event of excess heating or excess cooling thus protecting the circuit from damage using NXP NCX2220GU. The comparator guarantees to ...
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Full Custom Design of Low Power 8-bit Magnitude Comparator with Small Transistor Count by Static CMOS

Comparator is the basic module in digital system. It is widely used in communication and calculation areas. This paper is to provide new low power, area solution for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI ...
Electronic Design

High-Side Current Amplifier Forms 28-V Circuit Breaker

For the PDF version of this article, click here. The latching-comparator output (COUT1) on the MAX4373, a high-side current amplifier with comparator and voltage reference, makes possible a ...
Electronic Design

Simple Volt-Second Clamp Prevents Transformer Saturation

Single-transistor forward converters are popular in higher-power isolated power supplies because they feature low parts count and component stress. On the downside, careful attention must be given to ...