The two wires that the telephone company provides to a home or business are amazingly complex. The two-wire interface has been around for over 125 years, and has accumulated numerous design warts to ...

Sometimes, the parts list says it all. 777 transistors, 1223 resistors, 136 LEDs, 455 crimp connectors, 41 protoboards and 500 grams of solder. That’s what went into this transistor logic clock build.

Year after year the requirements and overhead for automotive power electronics are increasing. Such devices control features including radiator cooling fans, power-assisted steering, electronic ...

Nexperia has announced a number of new product additions to its growing range of discrete devices which it provides in leadless DFN packages with side-wettable flanks (SWF). Space-saving and rugged ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Thanks to IEEE 802.3af, Ethernet data transmission lines may now conduct a specified amount of power. Enabling PoE brings a variety of advantages and ...

Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor recently raised its discrete component average selling prices (ASP) by 10-15%, according to industry sources. Demand for discrete components particularly diodes has ...

The choice between hardware and software for electronics projects is generally a straighforward one. For simple tasks we might build dedicated hardware circuits out of discrete components for ...