EDN

Bipolar Transistor Circuit Design & Analysis, Part 1

Editor's Note: The following tutorial is one of a series of six on transistor theory by Howard Skolnik, retired Burr-Brown designer. Skolnik and Bob Dobkin, CTO of Linear Technology, will be our ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
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 ...
Science Daily

New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers

Engineers propose a built-in security measure that would better protect computer chip hardware from hackers. A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in ...
TechRepublic

Full Custom Design of Low Power 8-bit Magnitude Comparator with Small Transistor Count by Static CMOS

Comparator is the basic module in digital system. It is widely used in communication and calculation areas. This paper is to provide new low power, area solution for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI ...
Hackaday

Circuit VR: Starting An Amplifier Design

Sometimes I wish FETs had become practical before bipolar transistors. A FET is a lot more like a tube and amplifies voltages. Bipolar transistors amplify current and that makes them a bit harder to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Unearthing Hidden Reliability Risks

Leakage through parasitic body diodes in MOSFETs: Unintended current paths can form through transistor body diodes, ...
New Electronics

Simplifying GaN transistor circuit design

GaN Systems has announced its GS66508T-EVBHB Half-Bridge Evaluation Board which demonstrates the performance of its GaN enhancement mode power semiconductors in real power circuits. The GS66508T-EVBHB ...
Electronic Design

Simple Electronic Lock Uses Single-Transistor Circuit

A very simple but highly efficient combination lock circuit is shown in the figure. Any type of on/off switches can be used, varying from commercially available inexpensive types to more sophisticated ...
Electronic Design

Circuit Options Explore Issues, Solutions For Relay Drivers

Relays usually are driven using optocouplers, which offer isolation between analog and digital grounds to ensure that switching currents in the relay coils do not affect the noise margin of the ...