Nearly every new design tries to add functionality while using less power. Recent products from Infineon Technologies, National Semiconductor, Ricoh Europe BV, and Dialog Semiconductor all seek to ...

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

Maxim claims that its latest boost regulator integrates all the functions required to power the source drivers, gate drivers, and VCOM backplane in LCDs. With charge pumps, switch control, and a ...

My hands-on introduction to operational amplifiers was in 1969 while in the army as a junior scientist in the Atmospheric Science Laboratory at the White Sands Proving Grounds. We had taken a ...

The very basics of operational amplifiers. Learn comparator, inverting, and non-inverting op-amp configurations. An operational amplifier, or op amp, is a dc-coupled high-gain electronic voltage ...