Current Carrying Capacity for Semiconductor Wire Bonds
The current carrying capacity of a semiconductor is a crucial characteristic directly influenced by the device's material resistivity, thermal properties, and active area.
Whitepapers & App Notes
To support designers with technical application development, these whitepapers and application notes provide insight into the solution criteria required for new and innovative designs.
Semiconductors
Central Semiconductor
Enhancing PoE Devices with Schottky Bridge Rectifiers
Central Semiconductor’s CBRDFSH Series is ideal for your next design. The CBRDFSH series features a lower maximum voltage drop than standard full-wave bridge rectifiers.
Implementing Basic Amplification Stages with Small Signal BJTs
The basis for small signal bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) is simple: They are the best way to amplify an input signal without introducing large amounts of distortion to the output signal, creating near ideal amplification.
MOSFETs: Basic Structure, Operation & Ideal Applications
Similar to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs), Field Effect Transistors (FETs) are three-terminal devices capable of current switching and signal amplification.
CLD Application Notes
This Application Note provides the uses for Current Limiting Diodes to control current in a circuit.
Bare Die Performance
It can be difficult and expensive for designers of systems with limited area to determine how to accommodate changing functional requirements. Silicon packaging has evolved into a space-restraining process for many handheld, portable, and other tiny form-factor products
Current Limiting Diodes-Current Limiting Solutions
A current limiting diode (CLD) or current regulating diode (CRD) is a diode that regulates and limits current over a specified voltage range. These devices allow the passage of current, rise to a certain value, and then level off at a specific value
Fast Recovery-Time Recifiers
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JFETs: An Ideal Choice for Audio Applications
Despite the widespread use of MOSFETs in integrated circuits and the popularity of BJTs in analog circuits, JFETs still find much use in audio processing due to the capacity for low-noise amplification.
Designing Sustainable Energy Technology
Over the past twenty years, sustainable energy has evolved significantly. Improvement in renewable energy technology has led to higher power conversion efficiency, with high projected growth rates over the next ten years in automobile and commercial power markets.
RF/Microwave
Renaissance Electronics
Circulator and Isolator App Note
Circulators and Isolators are Ferrite devices used to protect sensitive RF/Microwave/Millimeter Wave Electronics Components by allowing RF Power to flow in one direction only. Usually Circulators and Isolators allow power to flow only in the clockwise direction, but they can also be configured to allow power to flow only in the counter-clockwise direction.
Circuit Protection
AEM Components
Single Fuse Solution For Datacenter
AEM CMF series SMD fuses are available for data center to make the circuit reliable, energy energy-efficient, and secure. CMF series fuses provide single fuse solution for overcurrent protection.
Automotive-Grade Surface-Mount Fuses Achieve New AEC-Q200 Compliance
All AEM automotive-grade surface mount fuses meet new industry regulations of AEC-Q200 Rev E. The new AEC-Q200 Rev E qualification outlines clear requirements for fuse performance before and after stress tests, which set a higher standard for safety and reliability.
Whitepaper-Derating Fuses
A Brief Discussion on Several De-rating of Fuse Selection In terms of circuit safety design, selecting a suitable fuse to add a guard gate to the circuit is a highly reliable and cost-effective option. Design engineers are very concerned about the impact of steady-state operating current on the fuse in the circuit. To ensure that the fuse has the same life cycle as the entire product and avoid abnormal melting, some engineers will directly select the rated current of the fuse as 1.5 times the steady-state operating current of the circuit based on experience, leaving a certain safety margin