- an 2025-05-24 in (IC Chips)
- Understanding Zero-Cross Detectors
- Zero-cross detectors identify the moment when an alternating signal transitions through zero voltage. This technology plays a vital role in modern electronics by enabling precise control over electric
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- an 2016-08-05 in (IC Chips)
- 12V battery level indicator circuit (LED bargraph)
- The heart of this circuit is the LM3914 from Texas Instruments (formerly National Semiconductor). The LM3914 can sense voltage levels and drive a display of 10 LEDs in dot mode or bar mode. The bar mo
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- an 2017-06-20 in (IC Chips)
- PWM lamp dimmer using NE555
- A simple and efficient PWM lamp dimmer using timer IC NE555 is discussed in this article. Yesterdays linear regulator based dimmers can only attain a maximum efficiency of 50% and are far inferi
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- an 2016-09-02 in (IC Chips)
- Freescale introduces amazingly small ARM MCU
- Freescale Semiconductor is introducing one of the smallest ARM based Microcontroller Units (MCUs) ever, a chip that is roughly the size of a dimple on a golf ball—the Kinetis KL03. Because
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