| Printer buffers serve to ensure that the data to be printed are taken from the computer as quickly as possible so that th e computer can...
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| In certain applications it may be desirable, in order to limit unnecessary power losses, to have the use of a diode with a forward voltag...
| Since Ferranti have taken their well-known ZN436, a 6-bit digital to-analogue converter, out of production, the ZN426 has 'replaced' it....
| The capacity of a fully charged NiCd (nickel-cadmium) battery can be measured fairly accurately by draining the battery with a fixed curre...
| Microprocessors are powerful devices and it is, therefore, not to be wondered at that their popularity has grown so fast in such a short...
| Although a fuse is primarily intended to melt when the current through it becomes too large, there are times when this should not happen...
| A recurring problem in the design of optoisolator circuits is arriving at the right compromise between insensitivity to spurious signals...
| Peripheral Interface Controllers, PICs®, from Microchip are currently in the centre of attention. In descriptions of these devices an impo...
| Modern audio and video systems, virtually without exception, use infra-red remote control. If one day (normally a Sunday) the remote contr...
| This inexpensive oscilloscope can be used at frequencies up to 20-30 kHz (optionally up to 1 MHz). It works from 12 V and can thus be use...