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Diodes Explained: One-Way Current Flow in Circuits

This video explains how diodes function as directional components in electronic circuits. Diodes allow current to flow in ...
EDN

Interfacing Maxim Laser Drivers with Laser Diodes

Interfacing laser driver circuits with commercially available laser diodes at high data rates can be a complicated and frustrating task. This application note is intended to briefly address this topic ...
Hackaday

Biasing That Transistor Part 4: Don’t Forget The FET

Over the recent weeks here at Hackaday, we’ve been taking a look at the humble transistor. In a series whose impetus came from a friend musing upon his students arriving with highly developed ...
EDN

To bias or not bias: New audio output transistors make that decision easy

ThermalTrak integrates power output transistors with thermal bias diode. One of the major design concerns in the output section of a typical class AB audio amplifier is output bias and stability over ...
Electronic Design

Varactor Diode Driving Tricks

Varactor (or “varicap”) diodes are used primarily in radio-frequency (RF) circuits to provide a capacitance that can be varied by changing the applied voltage. These types of diodes often are used for ...
Electronic Design

Get A Grip On Clamps, Bias, And AC-Coupled Video Signals

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Why should you ac-couple your video signals? In many cases, it's because the application has a ...