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Electronic Compass Chips 
The KMZ51 and KMZ52 from Philips Semiconductors are magnetic field sensors, dedicated to compass applications...
Understanding CRT's
In the area of electronic publishing; users will be able to store video images in the computer, merge the images with text and graphics and produce true color photorealistic hardcopies...
Phillips 555 Application Notes
The 555 timer consists of two voltage comparators, a bistable flip-flop, a discharge transistor, and a resistor divider network...
555 Timer Tutorial
The 555 timer IC was first introduced around 1971 by the Signetics Corporation as the SE555/NE555 and was called "The IC Time Machine" and was also the very first and only commercial timer ic available...
Understanding Passive Components
This booklet presents an introduction to the basic principles of a variety of passive components, discussing them in largely layman's terms and offering snippets of information and advice you may not find in other books...
Compandor Cookbook
Compandors are versatile, low cost, dual-channel gain control devices for audio frequencies. They are used in...
Fundamentals of Thyristors
The thyristor family of semiconductors consists of several very useful devices. The most widely used of this family are silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs), triacs, sidacs, and diacs...
Introduction to Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
As power conversion relies more on switched applications, semiconductor manufacturers need to create products that approach the ideal switch...
Microcontroller Selection
Selecting the proper microcontroller unit (MCU) for your application is one of the critical decisions which control the success or failure of your project...
Magnetrons
The heart of every microwave oven is the high voltage system . Its purpose is to generate microwave energy...
Comparators
Comparators have an op-amp front end and a digital back end that operates like a gate. The comparator output stage may be an open collector transistor, so it often connects to the logic supply through a pullup resistor...
Avalance Photodiodes
Avalanche photodiode detectors (APD) have and will continue to be used in many diverse applications such as laser range finders, data communications or photon correlation studies...
Rectifiers
Rectifiers are the largest class of products in the diode family. They are primarily used for blocking in one direction and conducting in the other. These include...
Schottky Diodes
Schottky rectifiers have been used for over 25 years in the power supply industry. The primary advantages are very low forward voltage drop and switching speeds that approach zero time making them ideal for output stages of switching power supplies...
Zener Diodes
Solid state voltage regulator diodes or Zeners have been popular since the late 1950's when they replaced bulky vacuum tubes...
XYZs of Oscilloscopes
Nature moves in the form of a sine wave, be it an ocean wave, earth-quake, sonic boom, explosion, sound through air, or the natural frequency of a body in motion...
Linear Circuits for Digital Systems
The pristine, regimented symmetry of digital circuit boards is occasionally interrupted by an irregular huddle of linear components...
Ultrasound Analog Electronics
Modern technology is driving medical ultrasound machines to new heights of performance, resulting in images with new levels of clarity and resolution. Ultrasound is used for...
Optical Character Recognition Using Fuzzy Logic
This application note shows how to envision, describe, and realize a design using fuzzy logic. It is not intended to be an introduction to fuzzy logic, but it is basic enough to be understood by...
Sine Wave Generation
Producing and manipulating the sine wave function is a common problem encountered by circuit designers. Sine wave circuits pose a significant design challenge because they represent...
Soldering Techniques
This written guide will help beginners and novices to obtain effective results when soldering electronic components...
Hardware Design Techniques
The chapter deals with various and sundry circuit/system issues which fall under the guise of system hardware design techniques. In this context, the design techniques may be all those...
IEEE Symbols and Prefixes
This appendix of the Publication Guide provides recommendations on prefixes, unit symbols and abbreviations, acronyms, and factors for conversion into units of the International System...
PID Control Loops
The PID control algorithm is used for the control of almost all loops in the process industries, and is also the basis for many advanced control algorithms and strategies...
Selecting an Analog Front End for Imaging Applications
Every imaging system starts with an image sensor. The signal from the sensor must be processed in the analog domain, converted to digital, and further processed in the digital domain...