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Capacitors Explained: How Energy Storage Works in Circuits

This video explains what capacitors are and how they store and release electrical energy in electronic circuits. Capacitors ...
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Murata and Cadence Partner to Streamline Circuit Design with Pre-Installed Electrical Models

HORSHAM, PA – Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has partnered with Cadence Design Systems to make its inductor and capacitor product libraries directly accessible within Cadence’s leading Electronic ...
EDN

Ceramic capacitor stops short-circuit failures

Myrtle Beach, S.C. — AVX Corp. has designed a ceramic capacitor that virtually eliminates the risk of short-circuit failure. Terminated with the company's FLEXITERM technology, FLEXISAFE capacitors ...

Streamlining Project Efficiency with Murata’s Pre-Installed Electrical Models in the Latest Versions of Cadence OrCAD X Capture™, Allegro X System Capture™ and AW…

Murata announces a significant collaboration with Cadence, making product libraries directly accessible within Cadence’s ...
Electronic Design

Snubber Capacitors Stop Spikes

A snubber circuit limits voltage spikes in power converters. Snubbers are also used in the output of Class-D audio amplifiers for the same reasons (Fig. 1). When the transistor you use to switch the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...

Will Murata (TSE:6981) Leverage Its Cadence Integration to Deepen Its Electronics Market Advantage?

Cadence Design Systems announced a major collaboration with Murata Manufacturing, making Murata's inductor and capacitor libraries directly accessible within Cadence's top Electronic Design Automation ...
Hackaday

Blinking An LED With A Single Transistor

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But you needn’t go so fancy! [The Design ...
Electronic Design

Ultracapacitor Technology Powers Electronic Circuits

As engineering innovations continue to advance ultracapacitors, their enhanced performance capabilities are expected to hasten the convergence of batteries and ultracapacitors—strengthening the ...
Drexel University

Addressing the Elephant in the Circuit — Finally, a Shrinkable Alternative for Capacitors

One of the last remaining unshrinkable obstacles blocking the progress of fully integrated, wearable technology is the clunky component that absorbs and disburses stray electricity and converts ...
EDN

Create radio receiver circuits with the LM386 audio amplifier

Although the ubiquitous LM386 IC was designed to be used as an audio amplifier, it has a number of undocumented characteristics that can be exploited to create simple radio receiver circuits that ...