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  • A text on discrete electronics devices is notable largely for its coverage of unusual, little-dealt-with topics.
  • Adding μC control makes a function generator even more versatile - Dennis Feucht launches a new multi-part project to build your own!
  • Dennis Feucht finds Newnes' new reference text on all things radio as noteworthy for its broad scope and many knowledgeable contributors.
  • Inaccurate or misleading terminology can often lead neophytes astray when it comes to power electronics. Dennis Feucht explains.
  • Dennis Feucht shows how to build a three-stage amplifier with parallel-resonant circuits.
  • Dennis Feucht continues exploring RFID with a new book focusing on security.
  • Dennis Feucht reviews a new text explaining the ins and outs of RFID.
  • Mixed-signal circuits can be intricate and confusing: Dennis Feucht unravels the strands.
  • Step into the designDEN - Dennis Feucht shows you how to soup up your oscilloscope's triggering capabilities.
  • How can you minimize noise so as to achieve near-textbook results? Dennis Feucht offers some expert hints.
  • Open up your junkbox! - Dennis Feucht is betting you have everything you need to build your own stairstep generator.
  • Dennis Feucht examines the role of creativity in design, and how it can help make the finished product much more than the sum of its components.
  • Global manufacturing makes local repair of consumer electronics increasingly tricky. What can be done? This year-end "Dear Dennis" considers the situation.
  • Take a look back into the past with Howard W. Sams & Co. and their legendary Photofacts.
  • Dennis Feucht examines the nexus of motor drives and audio amplifiers.
  • Dennis Feucht looks at the ins and outs of motor parameter measurements.
  • Dennis Feucht answers your questions about optimizing MOSFET voltage.
  • Dennis Feucht shows us how to build a hands-off on/off circuit.
  • Dennis Feucht looks with favor on a text that advocates MathCAD as a useful way to create and organize your calculations.
  • Dennis Feucht continues his look at "commodity ICs."
  • What's a "Norton" or "transconductance" amplifier? The answer to these and other questions in this month's Dear Dennis column.
  • Dennis Feucht looks at a new text on control theory for embedded systems.
  • Don't let those compact fluorescents pollute the environment or gather dust - step into the DesignDen and repair them!
  • "Dear Dennis" undertakes a spec-trek for some "missing" design data on a popular part.
  • Maintain and configure your lab to function at its most effective - Dennis Feucht shows you how in his latest column.
  • "Dear Dennis" continues to take on characteristics of commodity parts: this week, BJT single-supply op amps are in the spotlight.
  • Dennis Feucht completes the construction of a digital panel meter in the Design Den.
  • Despite some "Chinglish," a new text on digital power electronics and applications is a worthy addition to your library.
  • Having trouble fully characterizing common devices like 555 timers? "Dear Dennis" ferrets out the information in response to a reader request.
  • Design And Build A Simple DPM
  • The "idea per dollar ratio" makes a new review of  power electronics an exceptionally good buy.
  • Dennis Feucht addresses a reader query about commercial power inverters and how to improve their reliability.
  • Time for some springtime fun - build your own rocket launch controller! Here's Part Two.
  • A new book on power electronics design makes for a good general overview.
  • Dennis Feucht applauds a comprehensive text on control theory.
  • The graphics drive the text in a new treatise on power electronics and motor drives.
  • While Unified Modeling Language (UML) may not soon displace SPICE, a recent publication will give busy engineers the passing exposure and understanding they need.
  • A new text on switch-mode power converters has "plenty of trees but too little forest."
  • Brainstorm Session: High-Efficiency Linear Amplifier
  • A multi-national overview of wireless networks gets past a lumbering start to unfurl plenty of well-explained, useful engineering knowledge.
  • A spot of tea would go well with the review of Programmable Logic Controllers.
  • A new tome on switching power is a worthy supplement to the classic Fundamentals of Power Electronics.
  • A fun but serious text provides a useful roadmap for prospective embedded engineers.
  • Dennis Feucht broadens his perspective as he reviews a text on customizable embedded processors.
  • A new text on antenna design and theory sparks Dennis Feucht's interest.
  • Dennis Feucht looks at a new text on switched capacitor circuits.
  • Dennis Feucht reviews a text on small antenna design and leaves with a favorable impression.
  • A 1984 IEEE centenary text looks back on a century of engineering progress in ways which remain timely today.
  • A new work on Edison's combination of entrepreneurship and invention holds useful insights for the modern engineer.
  • A new reference book on "Mechatronics" proves a mixed bag.
  • "Light but broad coverage" is how a new text on electric motors is characterized.
  • If Electrical Engineering 101 is everything the typical student doesn't know upon graduation, Dennis Feucht is in mourning!
  • Dennis Feucht evaluates whether a recent release on mechanical components earns a place in his reference library.
  • Dennis Feucht reviews an essential new reference on wideband amplifiers.
  • Dennis Feucht looks at the world of Mechatronics.

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technoteZONE

  • In a new series, Dennis Feucht helps us understand the Cuk-based converter: first up, a closer look at ripple-current steering.
  • A "theory of everything - are even Dennis Feucht's formidable abilities up to this challenge? Find out in his latest TechNote.
  • Part Two of the series on SEPIC designs emphasizes the necessary calculations.
  • Dennis Feucht looks at strategies for determining optimal magnetic core size for switching power converters.
  • How do "step motors" inform our current engineering landscape? More than you might initially think...
  • What happens when fan drive electronics fail? Dennis Feucht continues the discussion in this follow-up TechNote.
  • Dennis' ongoing series on buck converter design looks more closely at the peak current control loop transfer function.
  • Dennis Feucht continues his exploration of buck converter design with a closer look at the peak current control loop.
  • How can you extend the life of your critical electronics by repairing rather than replacing your cooling fans? Dennis Feucht explains.
  • Dennis Feucht continues building a buck converter, this month focusing on the peak current control circuit.
  • Dennis Feucht gives us Part 2 of his tutorial on buck converter design.
  • Dennis Feucht launches a new series examining the concepts behind Cuk-derived converter circuits.
  • Dennis Feucht walks us through the basics of buck converter design.
  • Dennis Feucht continues his series on ways to reduce our personal energy footprints.
  • How can we reduce our personal energy footprints? Dennis Feucht takes on the issue from a technologist's perspective.
  • Temperature Compensation Of BJT Differential Amplifiers
  • Solar Thermoelectric Technology: Part 2
  • Solar Thermoelectric Technology: Part 1
  • Self-Diagnosis Of Electronics With Analog Circuits: Developmental Concepts

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