Aiming to create digital circuits from such things as relays, vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, and occasionally diodes, they come up with designs that use these components in either antiquated ...

Aiming to create digital circuits from such things as relays, vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, and occasionally diodes, they come up with designs that use these components in either antiquated ...

For power-supply controllers with an external soft-start pin, however, a simple circuit can be added to convert its non-latching fault protection into one with latched protection.

Figure 1a shows a latching circuit based on an optocoupler, IC 1. If the off switch remains closed, pressing the on switch powers the LED in the optocoupler. Thus, the transistor in IC 1 turns on. You ...

NPN transistors are key components in electronics, used as switches or amplifiers with three legs: base, collector, and emitter. Thyristors are semiconductor switches with three legs: gate, anode ...

The nanotechnology team at Hewlett-Packard has found a way of improving computer power by replacing transistors with the ‘crossbar latch’, which is a bistable-switch latch in the field of molecular ...

Like a standard transistor, the structure can manipulate an electrical signal that passes through the crossbar latch. Conventional transistors rely on the semi-conducting characteristics of silicon, ...