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Server response time meter

Server response time meter

The Meter 2014-12-01 21:12:00 Been awhile since I posted anything here, so I thought I’d use this post to give some more detail on a project I just completed. The whole idea was to create a giant meter to show website response time almost like a speedometer would. The result is something that’s both fun […]

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Temperature compensation delivers from MEMS oscillator

Temperature compensation delivers from MEMS oscillator

The SiT5003 is the most flexible LVCMOS/LVTTL/HCMOS compatible, ultra-stable MEMS VCTCXO (Voltage Controlled, Temperature Compensated Oscillator) solution in the market. This device supports any combination of the following features: frequency (1 – 80MHz), voltage (1.8V, 2.5V-3.3V), stability (±0.5PPM), pull range (±12.5PPM to ±50PPM) and 4-pin packages (3225, 5032, 7050). It provides superior shock and vibration

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Bring “dead” batteries back to life with a toroid and the Joule Thief circuit.

Two PIC pins drive six LEDs

This Design Idea demonstrates a new method of driving six LEDs with only two I/O lines from a microcontroller, and so is particularly suitable for any pin-limited chip. It uses a pair of I/O lines combined with a pair of complementary bipolar transistors.More than one LED can appear to be lit by multiplexing. A previous

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F1x600

Product How-to: Ultra-low noise linear regulators for powering PLL/VCO and clocking ICs

Wideband communication systems usually require an ultra-low noise regulator to power the VCOs and PLLs. The regulator must also be able to reject any ripple presented at its input. In a typical system, an ac input is converted to an isolated dc supply rail, –48-V, for example. This rail is then converted to an isolated

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Micropower Isolated

LTC Design Notes: Micropower Isolated Flyback Converter with Input VoltageRange from 6V to 100V

Introduction Flyback converters are widely used in isolated DC/DC applications because of their relative simplicity and low cost compared to alternative isolated topologies. Even so, designing a traditional flyback is not easy—the transformer requires careful design, and loop compensation is complicated by the well known right-half plane (RHP) zero and the propagation delay of the

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Video generator with PIC

Video generator with PIC

An black and white monitor needs to improve and repair from about 1990-th. The repair of device was not difficult but it caused troubles for the testing and setting of the monitor. We have a pattern TV generator, but this instrument are produce on the composite video signal for monitor. Unfortunately this monitor is demand

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Superconducting at 140 Degrees F

Superconducting at 140 Degrees F

Researchers Superconduct at 140 Degrees Lasers align lattice for pulses of superconductivity R. Colin Johnson 12/15/2014 07:15 PM EST 8 comments PORTLAND, Ore. — Superconductors are heating up. A group of international scientists working with the National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., have discovered lasers that can create conditions for superconductivity at temperatures as

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