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The parts that are used to create electronics devices and circuits. Common components used in electronics are the resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode, transistor, and the integrated circuit. Electromechanical devices like switches, relays, connectors, and enclosures are also considered components.
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Make a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Just One Opamp
March 12, 2020
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by Clemens Valens

Make a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Just One Opamp

It is instructive, easy and even fun to play around with the free circuit simulator LTSpice every once in a while. In this video you will first learn how to analyse and understand a simple opamp-based square wave oscillator taken from an “old” datasheet before changing it into a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). Building the circuit on a breadboard shows that it really works. The simulations are of course available for downloading to get your own experiments up and running quickly.
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Creating Space for Your Ideas
March 4, 2020 by Sensirion AG

Creating Space for Your Ideas

This is a submission from Sensirion on their SDP3x differential pressure sensor. It measures only 5 mm x 8 mm x 5mm and offers superior sensitivity. The sensor is the perfect choice for challenging applications such as Aō Air's Facewear Atmōs.
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A sample of the 112-layer BiCS5 memory. Image: Kioxia  
February 4, 2020 by Thomas Scherer

SSD Flash Memory Uses 112 Layers

The semiconductor manufacturer Kioxia and its partner Western Digital have announced a new generation of 3D NAND flash memory chips. Samples of this 512 Gbit TLC ‘5th generation’ BiCS5 3D NAND devices are available now, but full production volumes will not be rolling out until the second half of this year. Also in the pipeline are 1Tbit TLC and 1.33 Tbit QLC versions...
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Current sensor uses the Hall effect. Image: Raztec
January 28, 2020 by Thomas Scherer

Fast, Isolated Hall Sensor Measures High Current

Raztec Sensors based in New Zealand produces a range of Hall current sensors in the RAZC series with a maximum rating from 40 to 250 A. The toroidal sensors have an outer diameter of only 11 mm and an inner diameter of 4.5 mm for the current-carrying conductor. The response time is in the range of a few tens to a hundred kHz...
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FUOTA for STM32. Image: STMicroelectronics.
January 15, 2020 by Dr. Thomas Scherer

LoRaWAN Over-The-Air Firmware Updates for STM32

STMicroelectronics has made available a software expansion package (I-CUBE-LRWAN) for developers working with LoRaWAN® STM32L4 microcontroller-based systems to implement the latest FUOTA specification...
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Single-Pin Rotary Encoder
January 13, 2020 by Clemens Valens

Single-Pin Rotary Encoder

An incremental rotary encoder requires two signals for encoding rotational direction and speed; three signals are needed when it has an integrated pushbutton. In this video we show how they can be combined into one.
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What's inside. Image: Maxim
January 6, 2020 by Thomas Scherer

Isolated Driver Chip Switches High-Voltage FETs

Maxim has announced a new family of gate drivers ICs for SiC and GaN FETs that not only have a high isolation voltage of 1.2 kV (5 kV peak), but also offer a 35 ns propagation delay (typical) and a minimal pulse width of 20 ns. The MAX2270X family offer high (300 kV/µs) Common-Mode Transient Immunity (CMTI) performance to make sure that the driver is not triggered by spurious input signal glitches or interference...
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How To: Use a Triac in LTspice
January 1, 2020 by Clemens Valens

How To: Use a Triac in LTspice

LTspice is a great and free circuit simulator that allows you to do a lot of things. However, simulating a triac or diac circuit can be a challenge as these parts do not work straight out of the box. This video shows you how to get the job done. It also gives some background information on triacs and how to experiment with them in LTspice.
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VE-Trac-PIMs electric vehicle inverters. Image: ON Semiconductor.
January 1, 2020 by Thomas Scherer

High Voltage Automotive Traction Inverters

ON Semiconductor has announced the first two variants of its new VE-Trac PIM (Power Integrated Module) family of high-voltage inverters designed to drive electric vehicle traction motors. These PIMs provide an enhanced level of electrical and thermal performance, as well as scalability and a high level of reliability for automotive drive applications...
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The UF3C/SC series of SiC FETs. Image: UnitedSiC.
December 16, 2019 by Thomas Scherer

SiC Power FETs Achieve Ultra-low Rds(on)

New SiC power FETs from UnitedSiC achieve extremely low Rds(on) by combining a SiC JFET with a cascade-optimized Si MOSFET in the same package...
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