Schematic Tips for Better Electronic Design Readability
Creating the best schematic design is more than circuit innovation, you also need electronic design readability for those who will be using the schematic.
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Passive Pi Filter Design and Simulation
Your next power supply design or impedance matching network might be a pi filter. Here’s how these work and how to simulate them.
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Applications of Cathodic Current Measurements in Corrosion Protection
If you’re designing corrosion protection systems, you’ll need to gather cathodic current measurements in controlled experiments.
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Keys to Success with Your PCB CAD Parts Library
If you want more information on what your PCB CAD parts library does and how you can better work with it, take a look here at some of these ideas.
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Linear Sweep Voltammetry for Batteries and Regulator Design
Linear sweep voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry measurements are critical for examining battery operating ranges and designing charging systems.
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Inductive Circuits and Using Kirchhoff’s Current Law
Current in electronics is an eternal process of consideration and reconsideration. Inductive currents can be particularly difficult to match or determine necessities for.
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Working with Thin Film Resistor Components in Your Next PCB
Using a thin-film resistor provides lower profile and more reliable operation up to high frequency.
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Choosing Schematic Grid Sizes to Increase Your Design Productivity
To create complex schematics, you need a lot of control over your design environment including choosing schematic grid sizes. Here is more about that.
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Defining Design Intent in PCB Design CAD Tools
If you’ve got an action plan for your PCB design, then you’re on your way to defining design intent. But there may be more to design intent than you realize.
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Do Your Circuits Need a Schottky Diode?
Schottky diode components are less well-known than silicon diodes, but they provide some important advantages in rectifying circuits.
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Working with Standardized IEEE 315-1975 E-CAD Symbols
PCB schematics can be complex and difficult to read, especially if non-standard symbols are used on it. Here’s how using a standard like IEEE 315-1975 can help.
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Circuit Design Tips for a 4x4 Matrix Keypad
When creating and installing a 4x4 matrix keypad in your device, you’ll want to keep these reminders in mind.
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Working with STEP Enclosure Models in PCB Design
With STEP enclosure models giving the PCB designer access to mechanical design features inside of the layout tools, there are fewer PCB design mistakes.
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SiC SPICE Model and Analysis for New MOSFETs
If you’re building power amplifiers or RF amplifiers, you need SiC SPICE model and analysis tools in your PCB design software.
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Understanding Grid Basics in PCB Design
Grid basics for PCB design will help you to maintain a better design flow when laying out your circuit board for electronic production.
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What is a Linear Bilateral Network and What are its Characteristics?
A linear bilateral network exhibits a linear relationship, and yet simultaneously, the magnitude of the current is separate from the polarity of the voltage.
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Bistable Multivibrator Design and Simulation
Remember the 555 timer? Newer bistable multivibrator circuits can take pulse triggering applications to the next level.
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Shockley Diode Characteristics, Thyristors, and SCRs
Here are the important Shockley diode characteristics and how these devices form the basis of thyristors.
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Balanced Modulators in Analog Designs
You’ll need to know about amplitude modulation and signal integrity when working with balanced modulator circuits in your designs.
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Audio Circuits in Action - Any Card Can Be a Sound Card
A typical feature of many animals is that their ears pivot independently of their head. We have our general hearing and then we have focused hearing. We want our machines to have the same ability.
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