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We’ve all experienced the effect of electrostatic discharge at some point in our lives, the most common case being a tingling sensation one feels after touching a door knob or any metal surface. When the body is electrically isolated from earth...

“Real men have fabs.”  Jerry Sanders—AMD founder (circa 1993) ...

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This series installment will address the lab equipment that’s pretty critical to modern, but not specialized, electronics and testing it. I will first digress slightly to provide an update on the circuit boards designed and discussed in Part 1 of...

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A chess grandmaster, who also happens to be an electronics hobbyist, decides to design his own chess clock. The LEDs, normally open pushbutton switches, and microcontrollers are all in place, driven by a pair of 1.5-V AA batteries. However, the...

In low-voltage and high-current applications, it is common to use a measuring instrument capable of four-wire sensing to help minimize the effects of resistance between connections (such as wire resistance, alligator-to-pin resistance, alligator...