Neil Gruending (72)

| The world of RF amplifiers is fascinating because of the wide range of methods in use. Today, many are constructed from solid-state componen...

| The world of RF amplifiers is fascinating because of the wide range of methods in use. Today, many are constructed from solid-state componen...

| I bet that the first charge-coupled device (CCD) you can think of is a CMOS camera sensor. In addition to them being used in millions of cam...

| Traditional cathode-ray tube (CRT) oscilloscopes are a great tool for observing repetitive signals, but slow sweeps and sporadic signals are...

| In 1976 Texas Instruments (TI) wanted to design a device that would pronounce a word to be spelt out on a keyboard as a way to teach spellin...

| Microcontrollers are used in many of the electronic devices that we use every day. But the multibillion-dollar market for microcontrollers h...

| The idea of representing alphanumeric characters with seven segments started in the early 1900s in order to transmit characters via telegrap...

| In 1939 the Empire State Building used a ‘balun’ in a television antenna feedline for the first time. It’s almost 100 years later and baluns...

| The relay logic used to control industrial machinery was eventually replaced with discrete digital logic but it was still difficult to modif...

| There’s a good chance that you’ve used a TL431 programmable reference recently without even knowing it. These small 3-terminal devices blend...