When selecting a motor driver IC for a particular application, consider the maximum amount of current that must be driven. The thermal characteristics of the IC and PCB are often the limiting factor ...

This application note describes ways to estimate power dissipation of individual CMOS logic devices in a system. It will help users determine if their designs raise any power dissipation concerns. Due ...

Perhaps the toughest challenge that designers of portable power supplies face is powering modern high-performance CPUs. Recently, their supply currents have doubled about every two years. In fact, ...

User demands for high functionality in miniaturized devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, or GPSs oblige designers to use smaller components in each new design. As far as digital ICs ...