Used in a variety of timer, pulse generation, and oscillator applications, the 555 was designed in 1971 by Hans Camenzind. A favorite for many engineers, the 555 is still in widespread use due to its ...

Chris Gammell from the blog The amp hour and Analog Life is running a 555 timer IC design contest. EDN’s Mike Demler wrote it up on his blog yesterday. So Mike or Chris asked me to do a mention on ...

This project demonstrates the construction of a voltage doubler circuit using a 555 Timer IC, 1N4001 diodes, and 1nF capacitors. The 555 Timer IC is configured in astable mode to generate a square ...

If you are an electronics hobbyist then you must have heard about the 555 timer IC and its 3 popular circuits viz. astable multivibrator, bistable multivibrator, and monostable multivibrator. Apart ...

555 timer IC is an electronic component that we use in many electronic projects. It is called a timer because it can be used to control the time for which an electronic device stays on or off. The 555 ...

The 555 timer IC has been reinvented—again. Signetics introduced the enormously popular chip back in 1971, and it quickly became a big hit. Myriad application circuits have used it throughout the ...

A stopwatch is a timer that is used to measure an event anywhere from milliseconds to several hours. We can start and stop the count of the stopwatch at any instant and it can also be reset to zero to ...

The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) which is used in a variety of timer, delay, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. 555 Signals and Pinout (8 pin DIP) Figure below shows the ...

Hans Camenzind, the designer of the popular 555 timer IC died this week in Silicon Valley. He was 78. My condolences to his family and friends. Hans came to the U.S. from Switzerland in 1960. He ...