These days switching power supplies are nearly ubiquitous and used throughout every electronic devices. They are valued for their small size, low cost, and efficiency. However, they have the major ...

Testing a regulator all the way down to zero volts to see how it behaves and finding an output level, below which bad things ...

A way to apply the output of certain sensors to a TTL/CMOS-level iput on a microcontroller. Sensor must have an NPN output stage that can support a pullup to its power rail. With just a few components ...

Part 1 of this series discussed what characteristics make up a good load slammer. This article discusses how to use load slammers effectively to design, evaluate, debug, and validate your on-board ...

If these signals exhibit a simple, periodic waveform, such as with sine, square, or triangular waves, the generators are called function generators. They are often used to check the function of ...