| This design resulted from the need for a partial replacement of the well-known 8038 chip, which is no longer in production and therefore har...
| This design resulted from the need for a partial replacement of the well-known 8038 chip, which is no longer in production and therefore har...
| The ring oscillator comprises a number of inverting transistor amplifier stages connected in series, in which the output of the final stage...
| In microcontroller circuits quartz crystals provide the highest accuracy for keeping everything on frequency. With frequency and time measur...
| The Theremin is one of the very first electronic musical instruments, dating back to the 1920s. It is played by the musician bringing his ha...
| An ohmmeter or capacitance meter will not measure anything across a quarzt crystal, since it will have a resistance of several megohms (MO)...
| To keep the circuit simple as well as compact, it was decided to use a chip made by Maxim Integrated Products, the MAX2606. This IC from the...
| The Parallax SX28-based ‘Frequency Response Sweep Oscillator’ project published in the April 2008 issue of Elektor inspired the author to de...
| Crystal oscillators for digital circuits are normally built as Pierce oscillators with an inverter. The inverter operates as a linear amplif...
| The city of Shenzhen is a real world centre for the production of electronic appliances and has a huge electronic components marketplace. Th...
| Using one inverter, for example from a 74HC04 or a 4069, it is easy to construct a crystal oscillator. Unfortunately the current consumption...