Performance specs can be trumped, but elegance persists. Consider the most basic task in industrial control: driving sensors and bridges. It doesn’t matter if you’re dealing with a strain-gauge bridge ...

Modern societies would not survive without electricity and at the same time electrical faults could cause and have caused many catastrophes—mainly deadly fires—to our societies. There are two types of ...

It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need a precise current? Over on EDN, prolific [Stephen Woodward] explains how to use a ...

The ever innovative and prolific Mr. Woodward has offered “PWM-programmed LM317 constant current source,” an intriguing programmable constant current source which elicited a lively conversation in its ...

Troubleshooting electrical systems often begins with a simple question: Which fuse has failed? This compact seven-channel ...

The current differencing buffered amplifier (CDBA) is a derivative of the current feedback operational amplifier (CFOA), originally proposed by Acar C and Ozoguz S. The main advantage of a CDBA is ...