EDN

Circuit gates pulse train without truncating

To gate an integral clock pulse sequence from a continuous source without distorting pulse duration and number is not a trivial task. In most cases, a simple AND gate will cause problems, see Figure 1 ...
EDN

Single-MOSFET circuits gate & modulate

Discrete small-signal MOSFETs still find uses today, and this Design Idea presents two simple examples: an AND gate, and an amplitude modulator. Figure 1 shows a standard two-input AND gate along with ...
Electronic Design

Hybrid Circuits Optimize Gate Drive and Protect High Power IGBT Modules

High power IGBT modules employ hybrid IC gate drives including protection circuits that implement desaturation detection or real time control. ERIC R. MOTTO Powerex Inc. High power IGBT module ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
NextBigFuture

New synthetic biology circuits that combine memory and logic

Circuits can also be designed for any type of Boolean logic function, such as AND gates and OR gates. Using those kinds of gates, circuits can detect multiple inputs. In most of the previously ...