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In Circuit Transistor Checker

This simple circuit has helped me out on many occasions. It is able to check transistors, in the circuit, down to 40 ohms across the collector-base or base-emitter junctions. It can also check the ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
Electronics Weekly

Cadence unveils next generation of transistor-level circuit simulator for verification

Cadence is claiming up to 3x transient simulation performance for its latest transistor-level circuit simulator, compared with its previous offering. Called Spectre FX Simulator, it is the next ...
Digi Times

Revolutionary dynamic AC test system for power transistors

The Taurus-PDAT family's first offering includes AC dynamic test modes such as Switching, Reverse Bias Safe Operating Area, Diode Recovery, Gate Charge, Unclamped Inductive Load, and Short Circuit, ...
Electronic Design

Build A Smart Battery Charger Using A Single-Transistor Circuit

The following automatic battery-charger design is created with a circuit that could qualify as the simplest window comparator ever built around a single transistor (see the figure). It starts charging ...
Electronics Weekly

Transistor testing costs are a ‘serious’ problem

The cost of testing a transistor will approach and may exceed the cost of manufacturing it, Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at the University of Southampton, has warned. Al-Hashimi, who is at the ...