We’ve previously remarked upon a generation lucky enough to be well-versed in microcontrollers and computersised electronics through being brought up on the Arduino or the Raspberry Pi but unlucky ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s I was working for a company that manufactures sub-systems for tramways, subways and light rail car manufacturers. One day my boss tells me that one of our inverters, a 5 kW DC to ...

NXP Semiconductors has introduced its smallest transistors in a 1.1mm x 1mm x 0.37mm low-profile DFN (discrete flat no-leads) package. The range includes mosfets with RDS(on) values down to 34mohm, as ...

The base leg acts as the control and needs around 0.6 volts (V) to switch ‘on’. Once an input of 0.6 volts has triggered the base leg, a much larger current can flow through the collector or emitter ...

WE have considered in some detail the problem of using germanium and silicon transistors as choppers in thermocouple-amplifier and other low- and medium-impedance applications. In the past, several ...

Open-collector outputs are useful for transmitting buffered digital/pulse signals to the external world when high drive is needed. In harsh operating environments like automotive systems, however, ...