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		<title>EDN - Design Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 04:32:49 MDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Sponsored Link: TI’s Analog Design Contest Open to US &amp; Canada Universities</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	<description>Undergraduate students must be on a team in a senior design course or other project course, and must build their project using either 3 TI analog ICs or 2 TI analog ICs and a TI processor. Compete for the Engibous Prize: $10,000, $7,500, and $5,000 cash prizes.</description>
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			<title>Simple anticipator circuit improves on earlier idea</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Circuit jumps to final voltage at input signal's change and eliminates...</description>
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			<title>Perform the XOR/XNOR function with a diode bridge and a transistor</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Remember DTL? These discrete DTL-like circuits let you implement the XOR and XNOR operations...</description>
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			<title>Use an op amp as a set/reset flip-flop</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Eliminate a flip-flop package by using a spare op amp for an SR latch...</description>
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	<title>DRIVEFORINNOVATION - DESTINATION: AVNET EXPRESS</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	<description>Come Along for the Ride on the Ultimate Electronics Road Trip! Join the adventure as road warrior and editor of EE Times’ EE Life, Brian Fuller, tours the USA in the fire engine red Drive for Innovation Chevrolet Volt in search of engineering innovation. Follow content, access a drive tracker and an interactive map highlighting the tour as well as participate in games and weekly contests. Join the adventure! </description>
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			<title>Generate a pulse width that is inversely proportional to the square root of an analog voltage</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>This non-retriggerable monostable circuit performs analog conversion of a mathemetical function...</description>
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			<title>Power-supply decoupler protects your UUT</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Detect and shutdown reverse polarity or overvoltage before damage...</description>
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			<title>Build a digital PLL with three ICs</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>A counter’s self-presetting feedback loop hunts for the center...</description>
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	<title>Sponsored Link: Avago</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	<description>The ACPL-M483  High CMR IPM is a high speed optocoupler using a AlGaAs LED and photo detector with built in Schmitt trigger provides logic-compatible waveforms, eliminating the need to add wave shaping,these optocouplers an improve inverter efficiency through reduced switching dead time. </description>
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			<title>Signal-powered switch connects devices</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use a switch to selectively connect a terminal, personal computer, or any other originating...</description>
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			<title>Convert 1 to 5V signal to 4- to 20-mA output</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Precision analog current loop converter uses a matched resistor...</description>
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			<title>Linearize optical distance sensors with a voltage-to-frequency converter</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Create the mathematical inverse of an analog voltage by converting it to frequency and measuring...</description>
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			<title>Use a transistor as a heater</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>A temperature sensor and a hot transistor hold biological samples at a preset...</description>
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			<title>Monitor circuit conserves battery energy</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use a sampled-data technique to lower a monitor circuit’s average power...</description>
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			<title>Simple circuit lets you characterize JFETs</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Measure the pinch-off voltage VP and zero-bias drain current IDSS to select matched pairs of...</description>
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			<title>Use a transistor and an ammeter to measure inductance</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Bipolar junction transistors transfera current from a lower-resistanceemitter to a...</description>
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			<title>Use a three-phase rectifier and voltage reducer for offline single-phase supplies</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Missing diodes create gaps to allow voltage...</description>
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			<title>Lamps monitor beat frequency</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Synchronize an unknown frequency with a reference to obtain a zero beat by employing a visual...</description>
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			<title>Condenser microphone uses dc-coupled impedance converter</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Eliminate transformers and coupling capacitors in this self-balancing microphone...</description>
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			<title>Simple sawtooth generator operates at high frequency</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use a digital logic gate to generate an analog...</description>
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			<title>Dual regulator handles two input voltages</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use a pair of MOSFETs to switch between 3.3 and 5V regulated...</description>
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			<title>CMOS gate makes long-duration timers using RC components</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use a common CMOS gate to make long duration timers using low-value RC...</description>
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			<title>Microcontroller drives piezoelectric buzzer at high voltage</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Drive the buzzer directly from the μC’s I/O...</description>
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			<title>Conversion circuit handles binary or BCD</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Separate binary and BCD up/down counters permit both binary-to-BCD and BCD-to-binary conversion...</description>
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			<title>Circuit simultaneously delivers square and square root of two input voltages</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Perform mathematical computations using analog...</description>
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