A common PC sound card can be used as a sine/square/triangle function generator, but the output suffers from limited rail-to-rail swing, plus its zero-centered has no dc offset. This circuit overcomes ...

[Debraj] needed a simple signal generator for a project he was working on, but didn’t have one handy. He found that the easiest and cheapest way to get clean, reliable signaling was by using something ...

The principle of Constant On-Time (COT) has been used as a control method for buck, or step-down, regulators for many years. As a technique it has a number of advantages over standard, fixed-frequency ...

For the PDF version of this feature, click here. Hysteretic control, also known as bang-bang control or ripple regulator control, maintains the converter output voltage within the hysteresis band ...