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You Don't Need Pull-up Resistors on SPI Lines
Pull-up resistors are not required on SPI lines. There are certain instances where they can be used without affecting the functionality of the push-pull buffer.
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Flyback Transformer Design With Core and Coilformer
Flyback transformers can be designed as custom components with high efficiency and galvanic isolation. Here is how to create a custom flyback transformer for a flyback converter.
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Flyback Converter Module PCB Design Project
Flyback converters are isolated DC/DC converters with high efficiency. Here is how to create a PCB layout for a flyback converter.
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How to Use Class X and Class Y Safety Capacitors
Safety capacitors are used on the input stage of power supplies and on isolated power supplies to reduce EMI and ensure galvanic isolation at low frequencies.
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Baxandall Active Volume Control for Audio
An Introduction to Baxandall Active Volume Control Inspired by Douglas Self’s book on audio electronics (‘Small Signal Audio Design’) and his power amplifier design consisting of a massively-parallel array of NE5532 op-amps, I set out to design a headphone amplifier that uses similar techniques but scaled down due to the lower power requirements. The resulting amplifier utilizes many NE5532 op-amps (the first version used 44 in total!) and is
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How to Filter Noisy Power Rails
Although a power supply might look like it produces clean power on an oscilloscope, power supply operation in a real system can create noise or be susceptible to noise. Power rails often need to serve power to multiple devices in a system at the same voltage, but with clean power in different portions of the system. When that is the case, noise on the main rail may need to be cleaned up before being provided to different portions of your system
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Does Anyone Still Use DIP Components?
DIP components are less-often used in professional PCB design projects for new products, but legacy products may still need these parts.
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Pole-Zero Analysis and Transient Analysis in Circuit Design
Here’s how pole-zero analysis as part of transient analysis can help you identify underdamped responses, zero-output frequencies, and much more.
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CP2102 USB to UART Module PCB Design Project
See how to use the CP2102 in a new project for a USB to serial converter module. You can use the same steps to place this on a larger PCB.
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Dual ADC Module PCB Design Project
ADCs in a PCB are examined in this project, including placement and routing involving an isolated ADC.
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What Are Netlists in PCB Design Projects?
Your CAD system should not force you to manually work with netlists. Instead, learn about netlists and how advanced CAD systems automate their usage in PCB design, layout, and testing.
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Getting Started With nRF52 MCU in a PCB
See how to get started with the nRF52 in a PCB layout. We’ll show how to use the fine-pitch BGA package version of this component.
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Project creation from OrCad sheet and Mentor Graphics PCB design
This article shows an example of a project starting from an existing OrCad schematics project and its relative Mentor Graphics PCB design, ensuring a complete correspondence with the starting documentation.
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PCB Design Guidelines for Using TVS Diode for Transient Protection
A TVS diode can help with your PCB layout withstand an ESD event by diverting surges away from protected components.
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The Properties Panel and Document Options in the Schematic Editor
The Properties panel provides access to the properties of documents and objects. The contents of the panel change depending on the active document or the selected object. The set of properties completely covers all the necessary parameters and settings of the object. Summary Document options are used to customize the grid, fonts, sheet format, and more. You can access them in the Properties panel. Document options in a SCH library Document
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Buck Converter Component Sizing
An overview of what calculations are required when sizing components for a switching buck converter.
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Try These New Features in Altium Designer 22.9
September 23, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY What’s New in Altium Designer? The newest enhancements in Altium Designer 22.9 include design reuse updates, a variant update, and an extension of commenting features: Variant improvement in schematics - AD22.9 brings even more improvements to variant creation and management. New tools help streamline creation and management of design variants. Add comments to your BOM - The much-loved commenting feature is
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