Simple, (mostly) reliable, and based on decades-old technologies, we often take the optocoupler for granted, despite the vital roles it plays in many power applications. But we ignore these devices at ...

Although a monolithic low-dropoutregulator has superior dynamiccharacteristics, the discrete regulatorin this Design Idea is so simple that youcan adapt it to many purposes. Using acommon transistor, ...

The ACPL-P340/ACPL-W340 gate drive optocoupler contains an AlGaAs LED, which is optically coupled to an integrated circuit with a power output stage. This gate drive optocoupler is ideally suited for ...

In LEDs heat and high currents hasten the dimming process which can lead to unreliable operation in LED-powered optocouplers. Some simple and straight-forward analysis will keep their light shining ...

Download this article in PDF format. Logarithmic amplifiers with their log functionality are useful for compressing wide dynamic-range signals whereby the measured quantities are in decibels (dB).