EDN

Improved laser-diode-clamp circuit protects against overvoltages

Expensive semiconductor laser diodes have no tolerance for fast voltage or current transients. To minimize the risk of damage, a standard JFET-clamp circuit shorts the laser when there is no supply ...
EDN

Precision clamp protects data logger

This circuit was born from an application that required an input signal to be precisely clamped to less than 2.5 V, while operating on a 2.5 V supply (actually a reference) with a maximum output of 4 ...
Electronic Design

Clamping Circuit Lowers Distortion, Improves Overdrive Recovery Time

Some amplifier applications require clamping or limiting due to large, sporadic signals appearing at the amplifier input. Clamping these errant signals protects the amplifier and other sensitive ...
Electronics Weekly

Precision rectifier/clamp works near 0V for single-supply circuits

And here it is, modelled using LTSpice. It is the same circuit as the classic simple precision rectifier (set to pass the negative half-sine), but with the non-inverting input of the op-amp connected ...
Electronic Design

Little P-channel MOSFETs Save Space in Active Clamp Circuits

A family of 150-V and 200-V p-channel power MOSFETs in SC-70 and SOT-23 packaging saves space in primary-side active-clamp circuits in dc-dc converters. Until now, the p-channel MOSFETs for active ...
Business Wire

Apache Introduces PathFinder, the Industry’s First Full-chip ESD Physical Integrity Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power integrity and noise closure for chip-package-systems (CPS) convergence, today announced PathFinder™, a ...