The late Jim Williams’ last projectwas a 100A active load(Reference 1). That design needed aseparate signal generator and othercomponents. This Design Idea makesthe ...

Realistic conceptual design loads in the early phase of the overall aircraft design for the mass estimation of fuselage and wing play an important role in the overall aircraft assessment for new ...

From Maxim Integrated Application Note 4003: A shunt reference design is somewhat more difficult because you must calculate the external resistor value. That value (R1) must ensure that its voltage ...

A look at the design of traditional ADC front ends. How to simplify the input drive of CTSD ADCs. Simplifying reference and reference-drive designs. In this article, we will use the terms “sensor” or ...

High power LED lighting is harder than it looks. Power, dimming, control, and communication collide in one design.

Fig 1. Designers can parallel identical fixed-ratio isolated bus converters to create the high-power array in an intermediate bus architecture. Fig 2. This array of identical fixed-ratio isolated bus ...

In this article, we highlight one of the most important architectural traits of new continuous-time sigma-delta (CTSD) precision ADCs: the easy to drive resistive input and reference. The key to ...