A look at the dual bipolar transistor zener clamp circuit, and it's usefulness as a fast low leakage overload clamp. The first part is lifted from video #1000 with 12 minutes of extra commentary.

The system is suitable for small power supplies, op-amp circuits, analogue electronics experiments, and various DIY ...

At ISCAS 2026, Huawei’s He Tingbo delivered one of the semiconductor industry’s most closely watched keynote speeches, ...

Huawei's semiconductor strategy is vertical integration under constraint. Export controls have blocked Huawei and China’s ...

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Photonic integrated circuits are revolutionizing sensing and measurement, enhancing FMCW LiDAR and vibrometry with precision, ...

Advanced chip packaging, which boosts computing power for artificial intelligence, has made the United States more reliant on ...

Chipmakers agree that the transistor of the next decade will actually be two transistors stacked atop one another, packing in ...

It's the world’s first sub-1 nm chip technology, IBM claims. The fingernail-size chip is built with IBM's new transistor ...

IBM's NanoStack architecture has led to transistors that deliver 50% better performance and 70% less energy versus today's ...

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly ...