The latest version of the Californian/Texan company's mid-tier headphone amplifier now comes with optional Mesh DAC and Forkbeard control.

Semiconductor giant Qualcomm announced Tuesday that it will acquire Arduino, the Italian electronics company known for its affordable circuit boards that are popular with hobbyists. The price of the ...

A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.

NUS scientists have made a standard silicon transistor mimic brain functions, paving the way for efficient, scalable AI hardware using existing chip technology. NUS researchers have shown that a ...

Explains the principles of transistor switching circuits, highlighting their role in electronic computers. It contrasts transistors with vacuum tubes, emphasizing that transistors function as ...

The PDP-11/05 Console USB Adapter operates as a simple USB-to-serial bridge. To the host computer, the Console Adapter appears as a virtual COM port which can be access by a terminal program. Software ...

Ever since the development of the first working transistors in 1947, the electronics industry has experienced tremendous growth in numerous ways. For instance, transistors allowed for the ...

What is a Programmable Unijunction Transistor (PUT)? Simple – it is a three-lead electronic semiconductor device, similar to a unijunction transistor (UJT), except that its behaviour can be controlled ...

Abstract: Reliability is one of the key concerns in circuit design. The circuit must be able to tolerate transistor degradation to sustain reliability against timing failure. Whether a transistor is ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Organic semiconductors have long held promise for enabling deformable electronic devices that can be manufactured at low cost and high volumes using printing techniques. However, ...

In this tutorial, we will show how, under certain conditions, a PNP transistor is equivalent to a single PN junction with a voltage-current characteristic appropriately shifted on the positive ...