Most of us learned to design circuits with schematics. But if you get to a certain level of complexity, schematics are a pain. Modern designers — especially for digital circuits — prefer to use some ...

Abstract: Printed circuit board (PCB) layout has been an integral aspect of power electronic design since the first switching power supplies appeared more than 40 years ago. Regardless of the ...

BLOCK PCB transformers are vacuum moulded, providing a rugged, reliable and very high proof voltage device. When designed into a PCB mounted product for use as a power transformer they provide safe ...

A very important part of Sound Electronics is a Power Amplifier. Its main task is to increase the amplitude of the power of the given input signal. It amplifies the power of the input signal so that ...

Ten suggestions for getting designs built right the first time. In our previous column on schematics, it might appear that with so much detailed information anyone could perform the layout phase. A ...

The key to obtaining the best performance on your successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is optimizing the driver amplifier and resistor-capacitor (RC) filter ...

This is part 3-2, a continuation of my personal favorite session of the entire series, where I will talk about PCB design for the best possible electromagnetic compatibility or EMC. Accidental ...

To begin, I’d like to say that you can read this part of the series without reading any other section first. It stands on its own. The concepts I present here apply not only to all the switching ...