It’s available in a variety of 8-pin packages, including DIP, SOIC, and VSSSOP, in order of decreasing size. Also available is the hobbyist’s worst nightmare: a 555 in a chip-sized BGA (ball ...

[FightCube] wrote in recommending a very helpful piece of circuit simulation software for those of you still constructing entries for the 555 design contest. LTSpiceIV, available from Linear ...

When TV shows and movies need to use a phone number as part of the story, they typically use one that starts with 555. We spoke with an official historian at AT&T to find out why these three ...