Hackaday

Blinking An LED With A Single Transistor

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components ...
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), ...
Engineeringness on MSN

Transistors Explained: Switching and Signal Amplification

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Performance Of A Memory System With FeRAM vs. DRAM (Georgia Tech, Imec, NTUA)

A new technical paper titled “Benchmarking of FERAM-Based Memory System by Optimizing Ferroelectric Device Model” was published by researchers at Georgia Tech, imec and National Technical University ...
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 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 ...
CRN

Intel Bets On ‘Transistor-Resilient Design’ To Avoid Past Mistakes

The semiconductor giant wants to avoid past mistakes that have resulted in product delays by taking a new approach to the way it designs chips, which has already resulted with what the company says is ...