Posted April 12, 2016 by Chris

"1Wamp is a one Watt small guitar amplifier based on a JFET guitar pre-amp, the Big Muff Pi tone control and the LM386 power amplifier. This portable amp is an open hardware project designed by ElectroSmash using only free and open-source tools."

Posted February 13, 2016 by Chris

"The Tiny Mic Preamplifier based is based on a single transistor amplifier design. It amplifies the output of the electret condenser microphone. Good choice for Karaoke."

Posted January 25, 2016 by Chris

"PLC (Power Line Communication) is the technology that allows data transmission over the existing Power Line network. Power Line can be the home power network or the national electricity transmission grid. The data that can be transferred is as diverse as its speed. With speeds of nearly 200Mbps, video transmission, voice, data and any other services can be transmitted successfully."

Posted January 19, 2016 by Chris

"This Design Idea mates a precision current source IC with precision difference amp chips to create a programmable current source or sink."

Posted January 13, 2016 by Chris

"The RTDs are the most expensive, but they also provide best accuracy and best resolution for the measurement. This, however, only if appropriate analogue circuitry will be used. The appropriate analogue circuitry constitutes the subject of this article."

Posted January 7, 2016 by Chris

"This reference design is a power management of Xilinx ZedBoard using MMPF0100 Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC). A PMIC is an IC for managing power requirements of the host system and is commonly used in a system-on-chip (SoC) device."

Posted January 1, 2016 by Chris

"AN6877 is linear AF level meter IC produced by Panasonic and it is commonly found on many audio equipment. This chip is no longer manufactured by Panasonic and finding replacement chip for AN6877 is also quiet difficult."

Posted December 30, 2015 by Chris

"Voltage Multipliers are the circuits where we get very high DC voltage from the Low AC voltage supply, a voltage multiplier circuit generates voltage in multiple of peak input voltage of AC, like if the peak voltage of AC voltage is 5 volt, we will get 15 volt DC at the output, in case of Voltage Tripler circuit."

Posted August 22, 2015 by Chris

"The concept is pretty simple. It is a constant current sink controlled by 2 opamps. Two paralleled logic level MOSFETs do the heavy lifting (heatsink!). Another pair of paralleled P-MOSFETs + a Zener diode act as reverse polarity protection. A capacitor is used to keep the first opamp from oscillating."

Posted August 9, 2015 by Chris

"Printed circuit boards (PCBs) now encompass much more than pure digital or mixed-signal technologies, and the PCB layout designer faces many more challenges when designing sub-assemblies with high frequency RF and microwave. The RF frequency range is typically from 500 MHz to 2 GHz, and designs above 100 MHz are considered RF. The microwave frequency range is anything above 2 GHz."