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Poll: electrolytic capacitors
What brand do you guys like to use in your large volume products, specifically Al electrolytics? What offers the best reliability/capacity/price bang for the buck these days?
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Negative Capacitance
Theory with a practical example: So, another lab curiosity that will never make it to the fab, or game-changer? Mark L. Fergerson
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spi RF attenuator
Who makes decent SPI programmable attenuators? I need DC to, say, 300 MHz or better. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att...
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Two Amps Fail Simultaneously, I Am Suspicious
I am told what happened is they tried to switch amps to see how the other o ne sounded, when it was turned on the breaker in the panel tripped. One is a Stagg. I forget the model but suffice it to say...
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Test clip for very thin wire
Hi, guys:- Looking for a way to clip a very thin wire temporarily to a jig builto on a PCB for test purposes. The wire is around 0.1mm (AWG38), so it could easily be sheared off. Something that...
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Spice crazed
Either I've made some silly mistake or LT stands for loony tunes... this sh ould not produce 300v! One I simmed tonight managed 1.3kV apparently! Version 4 SHEET 1 1136 680 WIRE 816 -112 816 -160 WIRE...
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RadioShack Gone
Reading about the messy and incompetent executive management here:
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op-amp signal delay
I'm playing with a TI op-amp, the THS4304. It's marked as a 3GHz op-amp on the datasheet's title page, but it has a 935 MHz GBW at G=5. Whatever, it is one of the faster VFB opamps you can get. Its...
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LT5560 Mixer ??
Anyone know of a spice model for an LT5560 mixer... or at least some solid numbers... the datasheet is sorely lacking :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | |...
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File Conversion - DWG to PDF?
Can any recommend a free online viewer for DWG? 2nd choice would to install one - not thrilled about installing software from the web. Today I tried converting DWG to PDF at and the PDF was the wrong...
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Spec-Check :)
Nvidia's specs, and card-manufacturers specs are fluctuating all over the place. Time for a spec-check ! ;) Paul mentions 30 watts ? Fooled ! Up to 75 watts ! ;) I know I know. I know my practice =D...
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Electrical Engineering Challenge
Duh...
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another MicroZed project
Another board: The microZed compute platform plugs into the middle. The application board has eight DAC channels with filters and amps, two ADC inputs, power supplies, BIST, stuff like that. We put...
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Dread Pirate Roberts
He was nabbed in the Glen Park public library, above the Canyon Market (great fresh-baked sourdough), just down the hill from our house.
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Filter Pole Locations
Suppose I have a LP filter whose TOTAL bandwidth is BW and I want to transform that BW to a center frequency Fo. All the transforms I can find map the lowpass (Laplace) EQUATION into a bandpass...
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