EDN

Extend low-output-voltage switching regulator’s input range

Internal operating voltages in electronic devices continue to decrease, but input-source voltages don't change. As the difference between input and output voltages increases, so does the improvement ...
Electronic Design

Boost Those Weak Voltages with Op Amps

The very basics of operational amplifiers. Learn comparator, inverting, and non-inverting op-amp configurations. An operational amplifier, or op amp, is a dc-coupled high-gain electronic voltage ...
EDN

Multiple linear regulators power handheld devices – and turn on the features that count

Wireless handsets, personal digital assistants (PDA) and other handheld devices can't operate everything directly from the battery since each IC requires a specific, steady and accurate supply voltage ...
Nature

Control of randomly scattered surface plasmon polaritons for multiple-input and multiple-output plasmonic switching devices

Merging multiple microprocessors with high-speed optical networks has been considered a promising strategy for the improvement of overall computation power. However, the loss of the optical ...