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I need to design a simple flyback converter like this: - I want to control duty cycle from another circuit such as an MCU but, I'm unsure how to proceed. My requirements are: - Input voltage 125 ...
Hello. I have a grounding problem on my acquisition system. I have read many articles, app notes and whatever but still could not find a convincing solution for the topic. The acquisition system is...
In short: The baud rate is the symbol transmission rate. The bit rate is the data transmission rate. (A "symbol", in this context, is simply a group of some relatively arbitrary, non...
For many years I have been working on unraveling the basic ideas behind famous circuit solutions. Thus I gradually managed to accumulate a collection of circuit principles and clever tricks. I have...
If your studies lean toward VLSI design rather than discrete circuit design then you may have also learned that a MOSFET is really a 4-terminal device: gate, source, drain, and body. In VLSI design...
You can't eliminate all noise, use no memory, no processing cycles, and not add some lag. However, you can do much better than a brute force "moving average" filter. FIR versus IIR filters The...
The lifetime rating is (usually) quoted as "so many" hours at a certain temperature and that is the crucial thing to be aware of. For instance, consider a capacitor like this one: - Some in the ...
In addition to permanent damage, which is what you are concerned about, incorrect behavior is also possible. One design I sort of inherited had a major ESD problem. It was long ago and I don't reme...
Once in a while in literature I see a DC offset subtraction loop. Here are a few more examples. DC servo loop removes a DC offset after an op-amp. DC servo loop removes DC current from a photo...
That looks like the internal compenstation capacitor. It creates a single dominant pole over most of the opamp's intended operating range. Opamps with dominant pole compensation can be characteri...
Which graph on the picture above better represents real-world use-case? They both represent real-world use cases. The impedance graph informs you how much ESL (effective series inductance) the...
Why am I getting these downvotes? It started last week (or the week before) and now it seems like it's getting contagious: - Seems like this site has some of the same outrageous inclinations as ...
I will try to cover additional aspects. Not eager on making changes - Big organizations are usually non very prone on changing their horse for the battle - sticking to their EDA choice from 20+ ye...
I see Andy has already given a detailed answer with a lot of good background on flyback converters. I'll answer the question more directly about how I would step thru this design if given these ...
RF novice here. If using a superheterodyne receiver for the purpose of FM/FSK modulated signals, I'm wondering if the location of an optional automatic gain control (AGC) circuit is always placed o...
As we know there exists numerous different kinds of PCB CAD software. The big ones seem to be Eagle, KiCAD, Altium, OrCAD, Solidworks, DesignSpark and probably a few more. When it comes to mechani...
I know that in transistors there is base, collector and emitter, and in FETs there is gate, drain and source, but what is the fourth grounded connection opposite the gate in this NMOS circuit?
This is not a direct answer, but a few observations that might be clues. The additional pictures help, but you still haven't answered where this is. The purpose of the question was to get some id...
Based on this nerdy but seemingly trustworthy site: https://www.prc68.com/I/TelephonePoles.shtml Then I would guess these are cable TV repeaters/signal amplifiers. Classic cable TV uses copper co...
Your main complaint seems to be that the 24 V power rail sags 800 mV when the heater is on. Three responses pop to mind: So what? It probably isn't anyway. What did you expect? #1: So what? ...
When you search on Google about a specific electronics/electrical engineering question, EE Codidact is not in the first few results so I think users should try to upload relevant content freque...
It was a firmware issue. SDS1xx4X-E Firmware Revision History And Update Instructions The hardware delay between ADC acquisitions was not accounted for. I flashed the scope with new firmware and ...
ESD precautions can save a lot of tedious failure analysis. A very inconvenient thing about ESD is that a failure can be attributed to ESD only by ruling out every other possible cause. ESD failu...
New versions of Altium (22.x) changed their approach to component libraries. You now create components, to which a symbol and several footprints can be tied. This allows you to reuse symbols acros...
