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  • Voltage Detectors Enhance System Safety

    By Staff, April 08, 2011

    The STM1831voltage detector packs extra features that enhance system safety and reliability such as enabling the electronics to recover safely if a voltage drop occurs in the power supply.

  • Simple Circuit Provides Latching Fault Protection

    By Brian King, October 26, 2009

    In this Idea for Design: the Soft-start capacitor's discharge can be used as a trigger for a latch circuit in order to provide latch-off fault response in switching supplies

  • Create A Simple Crowbar To Protect Prototypes From Supply Overvoltage

    By Sanjay R. Chendvankar, September 10, 2009

    There's no telling what your co-workers will do to your bench supply when you walk away momentarily. This Idea for Design describes a simple crowbar circuit that will prevent supply-overvoltage mishaps with prototypes under test.

  • Add Simple Temperature Monitoring To Battery-Management Systems

    By Tim Regan, August 13, 2009

    Battery-powered vehicles are in vogue, making accurate battery-temperature monitoring that much more important. Here's an Idea for Design that will show you how to implement temperature monitoring in battery-management systems.

  • Keep An Eye On Temperature Trends During Li-ion Battery Charge And Discharge Cycles

    By David Gunderson, July 29, 2009

    The emergence of larger lithium-chemistry batteries means higher charge/discharge currents, and that means more heat. Contributing Editor David Gunderson discusses the ins and outs of guarding against overtemperature issues with Li-ion cells.

  • Programmable Window Comparator Uses A Single Reference

    By William Grill , July 09, 2009

    Based on a Microchip 12F675 MCU, this programmable window comparator lets users dynamically select the window characteristic and tolerance. It's aimed at voltage-monitoring applications.

  • White Paper: Preventing Component Circuit Damage from Above Range Current with Reliable Overcurrent Protection

    By ED News Staff, April 10, 2009

    This white paper details some of the latest circuit protection advancements, and demonstrates how Bourns’ line of resettable Multifuse® products can enable cost-effective and reliable protection that matches design objectives while eliminating design cons

  • White Paper: First Principles of a Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) Primary Protector

    By ED News Staff, April 10, 2009

    This white paper outlines Bourns’ GDT device operation and provides crucial design information on the relationship between key electrical parameters and ramp and surge waveforms, how to define ramp and surge impulses and how GDT parameters change over its

  • White Paper: Bourns Transient Blocking Unit (TBU) High-Speed Electronic Current Limiter Protection

    By ED News Staff, April 10, 2009

    This white paper provides an overview of different circuit protection technologies, how TBU devices work and details TBU performance through test results under varying surge conditions.

  • Current-Limited Load Switch Simplifies Hot-Swap Management

    By Staff, March 26, 2009

    The AAT4614 current-limited p-channel MOSFET power switch from Advanced Analogic Technologies targets high-side load-switching applications. Designed to protect peripheral ports from short-circuit and overvoltage events, it combines reverse current blocki

  • Powering The Signal Path

    By Robert M. Hanrahan, February 26, 2009

    Power delivered to sensitive analog circuitry must be treated differently than power for digital circuitry. All circuits are affected by noise delivered through the power supply, yet analog loads tend to be more sensitive. The actual typ

  • Li-Ion Battery Protection ICs

    By Sam Davis, February 23, 2009

    The simplest protection method for battery packs is a fuse that opens if the system draws excessively high current. A more complex protection circuit is found in some battery packs. The battery-protection ICs prevent excessive current, which could lead to

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