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When I was a baby, Larry Hunt, a kind, funny Jesuit priest and my great-uncle, baptized me. At around age 12, I began attending Sunday Mass when my mom, then in her 30s, decided to cart her five ...

Expanding its line of inductors and frequency control devices (FCDs), Vishay has added more than 2000 new SKUs across nearly 100 series. The broader offering simplifies sourcing and supports more ...

In physics, we have a bunch of constants that are used in models to explain how the world works. These are fixed numbers that we plug into equations along with our variables. For example, the ...

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational ...

ABSTRACT: The boost converter feeding a constant power load (CPL) is a non-minimum phase system that is prone to the destabilizing effects of the negative incremental resistance of the CPL and ...

PWM techniques control power delivery in electronic devices by varying the duty cycle, which is the ratio of “on” time to the total period of a periodic signal. As shown in Figure 1, precisely ...

Abstract: In this article, a multiphase series capacitor trans-inductor voltage regulator (SCTLVR) based on constant on-time control in data center point-of-load applications is proposed. The series ...

Vesto Slipher first observed that galaxies are moving away from us. Edwin Hubble later showed a relationship between galaxy distance and speed. Hubble's work relied heavily on Slipher's earlier data.

A variety of analog front-end functions typically assist ADCs to do their jobs. These include instrumentation amplifiers (INA), digitally programmable gain (DPG), and sample and holds (S&H). The ...