Current-limiting regulators protect the circuits they feed but don't necessarily protect themselves against excessive dissipation. Here is an Idea For Design with a regulator that does both. A current ...

Originally, the venerable three-terminal linear regulator featured a bipolar junction transistor emitter-follower output that exhibited very low output impedance. Many of today's applications demand ...

Figure 2 Bootstrapping the IC switch voltage to the input in the circuit of Figure 1 improves efficiency by about 3%. Of course, the FET actively turns on when the source goes low. But simply using ...

For high-speed clock and data systems, positive emitter-coupled-logic (PECL) – a differential signaling scheme – is emerging as a preferred alternative to single-ended CMOS and TTL logic. High-speed ...