You may find it tempting to leave decisions on passive component tolerance for the PCB engineer or assembler. If you are going to cut corners on your schematics make sure you understand how component ...

Download this article in PDF format. Determining the resistor values and assuring performance of the circuit associated with a photocoupler (also called an optocoupler or optoisolator) is simple in ...

But, it turns out, a thermometer has been part of photonic chips all along.