Last weekend I finally got down to testing a prototype of a power amplifier I had been designing for a while. This amp has a bit of a unique output topology, and I was keen to see how it behaved when ...

Many aspects of semiconductor design and verification have an ever-growing “need for speed” that has outpaced the performance improvements available by running on CPUs. Electronic design automation ...

The latest version of SpiTanII software allows designers to view all basic characteristics and parameters for tantalum and niobium oxide capacitors. The company has also expanded the PSpice simulation ...

Among the abundance of components making up electronic circuits, very few are as important as capacitors. These components, taking the form of conductive plates separated by an insulating material ...

A few years ago, there was a stir about a new fundamental component called a memristor. That wasn’t the first time a new component type was theorized though. In 1948 [Bernard Tellegen] postulated the ...

This white paper discusses a method for driving high-frequency sinusoidal ripple over capacitive loads for power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) testing, an important performance parameter for many ...

My, have times changed. I remember when I first started out as a green analog designer right out of college, we would cut rubylith masking film on a large light table representing the different layers ...

Electronic filters are signal processing circuits that attenuate unwanted frequency components from a signal. Before transistors and integrated circuits were discovered, coils of wire with large ...

Passive circuits for power factor correction (PFC) are simple, reliable, robust, and they don't generate EMI [1-4]. Plus, they offer a low-cost alternative for complying with harmonic current limit ...