Technical Articles
Advanced Linear Devices, Inc. has published these technical articles:
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For decades, analog voltage comparators have found a wide range of applications in mixed signal sensor circuits, those used to compare physical measurements that could be translated into corresponding...
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Novel Circuit Design Offers Insight on Over-Voltage Problem that Jeopardizes Cell Life and Provides Solution on How to Implement Automatic Leakage Current Equalization...
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Since the mid-nineteen seventies the “enhancement-mode” MOSFET has been the subject of almost continuous global research, development, and refinement by both the semiconductor industry and...
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These devices are positioned to balance the voltage for supercapacitors used in a series to prevent each cell from overvoltage while offering a significant cost saving when compared to traditional...
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For maximum 50/60 cycle line power noise rejection, Integration time tINT must be picked as a multiple of the period of line power frequency. For example, tINT times of 16.667 msec, 33.333 msec,...
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It can be tough to harvest energy from innovative IoT devices such as thermoelectric generators built into clothing. A new kind of MOSFET is designed to work with the super-low voltages involved....
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Energy Harvesting taps ambient waste energy through increasingly efficient micro-energy power generators using piezoelectric elements. As circuits such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that operates...
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Energy Harvesting (EH) is the process of electronically capturing and accumulating energy from
a variety of energy sources deemed wasted or otherwise said to be unusable for any practical
purpose....
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Recently revealed independent testing data shows that SAB MOSFET arrays designed into supercapacitor applications of two or more cells can reduce leakage current. By reducing leakage current, the...
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A MOSFET can have low current and low voltage and still effective balance a wide range of supercapacitors with values beyond 1000F because the supercapacitor current does not flow through the MOSFET....
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While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory and established legitimacy over the last few years, the electronic circuitry used in energy harvesting systems continues to...
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While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory to the marketplace over the last few years, many popular energy sources capable of generating waste energy have yet to emerge as...
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By reducing leakage current, SAB MOSFET device balance individual cell voltage with current balancing and cut power dissipation compared to op amp-based voltage balancing...
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The use of supercapacitor series stacks are growing for many systems used in backup power storage or battery life extension. One of the most critical circuit design goals for such systems is...
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The paradigm that EPAD MOSFET arrays introduce is that gate thresholds can now be precisely controlled so that analog designers are now able to take advantage of the absolute value of the gate...
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This introduction to EPAD MOSFET describes a broad selection of devices with precisely set gate threshold voltage values, including zero threshold mode, enhancement mode and depletion mode....
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Supercapacitors are a great alternative to batteries in applications needing many rapid
charge/discharge cycles and are popular in applications such as short-term energy storage,
regenerative...
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Voltage clamps for protecting low-voltage DC circuits require a new approach to circuit design. Many clamps commonly used were built for systems of 5-Volts or higher but lower voltage systems require...
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ALD's Electrically Programmable Analog Device (EPAD) technology provides a family of matched transistors with a range of precision threshold values. All members of this family are designed and...
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As circuit supply voltages decrease and green energy trends grow in popularity, designers should
re-examine some of the circuits that continually consume power in an effort to reduce overall
system...
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Current leakages are ever present in electronic systems, and many forms of leakage are considered by engineers to be unusable. This thinking is starting to change as new frontiers in ultra-low power...
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The average supercapacitor has a maximum charging voltage of between 2.5 and 2.7 V. For many
applications a voltage this low isn't particularly useful, so the common practice is to place multiple...
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Crystal Oscillators are key components used in many electronic circuits, such as in radio frequency applications
and digital and microprocessor-based devices. In order to save power, an ultra...
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ALD110900, ALD110804 and ALD114904 devices
were utilized as inverters and buffers to create a low
power oscillator circuit with various configurations. This
article covers three basic oscillator...
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Systems and circuits that are susceptible to damage in over-voltage conditions benefit from voltage clamps to ensure that voltages remain below a critical limit. But because this is a protection...
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Voltage clamps for protecting
low-voltage dc circuits require a
new approach to circuit design.
Many commonly used voltage clamps
were built for systems of 5 V or higher, but lower-voltage systems...