Look at almost any circuit, and it’s nearly sure that there will be a capacitor included in it. These two-terminal electrical components rank alongside resistors.

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This article will help you build a simple Arduino-based DCC system. Growing up in the 1980s I was living the dream. I had an ...

Generating a deterministic dither waveform to DC signals in order to enhance the signal-to-quantization noise of ADC ...

There’s a part you’ll find in almost every mains powered switch mode power supply that might at first appear to have only one application. An optocoupler sits between the low voltage ...

Cadence Design Systems announced a major collaboration with Murata Manufacturing, making Murata's inductor and capacitor libraries directly accessible within Cadence's top Electronic Design Automation ...

In any multi-die assembly, stacking two or more active dies results in thermal stress. Heat dissipated from a lower die faces ...

The types of diagnostic measures that use watchdog timers as recommended by the IEC61508-2 standard to address failures in ...