Low-power circuit design has evolved into a critical research domain that addresses the dual challenges of energy efficiency and variation resilience. This field focuses on creating systems that ...

Joseph Shavit In an effort to meet the rising energy demands of data centers, engineers at the University of California San ...

Overvoltage protection of AC power lines is a common practice, which encompasses a variety of protection circuit solutions. Most designs are cost-driven and tend to use only the bare minimum of ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. a power device capacitance analyzer that automatically characterizes power device junction capacitances using real operating voltages. The B1507A Power Device Capacitance ...

Lightweight, small-size, and high-power-density power converter systems, which use only switches and capacitors in their power stage, have no need for transformers or inductors in their design. This ...

RIT engineering research team advances adaptive analog computer chip design to improve the battery life in wearable and smart ...

CMOS current mirrors are pivotal in modern electronic circuitry, providing accurate current replication that is essential for biasing, amplification and active loading in a myriad of integrated ...

There came a time when high-speed electronic circuits reached speeds that required engineers to analyze the design for signal ...

Achieving sustainability occurs by reducing the amount of energy consumed during manufacturing and throughout the lifetime of a device. Semiconductors play a key role in sustainable energy by enabling ...

While passive precharge employs a power resistor to create an RC circuit that charges the capacitor asymptotically, active precharge can employ a switching converter with a buck topology that uses ...

EMI design:All relevant devices must pass EMC standards, but it can be challenging to optimize devices for EMI performance. Flyback solutions typically require a common-mode (CM) inductor to improve ...

The digitalization of industry is progressing in leaps and bounds, albeit not at the same speed everywhere. In many industries, processes can be digitalized well to very well — for example, because ...