Wireless communications took a small leap forward today with the announcement that researchers have created a functional integrated circuit smaller than a grain of salt. Subscribe to read this story ...

Crazy Tube Circuits has unveiled the Super Conductor, a four-in-one boost pedal with a powerful array of electric guitar tone-shaping options that belies its compact, pedalboard-friendly format.

Oklahoma City stompbox fave Walrus Audio has announced the Emissary Parallel Boost pedal. The Emissary packs two independent boost circuits running in parallel, which can be used together or ...

Mains-connected boost Power Factor Correction (PFC) circuits are employed in order to meet EMI standards. The EMI filter together with the boost inductor has to attenuate the High Frequency (HF) ...

The LED backlight in an LCD panel is the biggest power hog in notebook and tablet applications. As screen resolution and brightness level increase, the input power consumed by the LED backlight ...

comprise a transformer, rectifier, and filter capacitor. Many single-voltage power suppliesconsist of a transformer, arectifier, and a filter capacitor, as shownin Figure 1. This circuit is ...

Experienced designers know that for many system scenarios—even as disparate as a data link versus a power supply—one of the biggest challenges is getting the function to initialize and start up ...

Use of buck-boost circuits in switching-regulator ICs. Considerations in level-shift circuit design. Switching regulators with internal level shifting. The magnitude of the negative voltage generated ...