Dear Dennis...
EN-Genius Network's Dennis Feucht answers your design
queries in his new Circuit Design Clinic!
April, 2008
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EN-Genius Network presents a new, interactive
analog design service to readers! Send us your design questions (with
relevant data; schematics in JPEG or GIF, please) for some free
engineering advice from EN-Genius Network's circuit
consultant, Dennis Feucht, on how you might solve a design problem or
improve circuit performance. Submissions may be edited for clarity or
brevity, and submitters and their email addresses will remain anonymous
(unless otherwise indicated). Please send your questions to Dennis here.
Design Techniques for New Engineers
Misleading Terminology
by Dennis L Feucht
Power electronics (including motion control) has an unusually high occurrence of misleading terminology. When taken at face value, misnomers result in confusion for neophytes and conceptual abstruseness in the literature of the field. Misleading language is slowly being replaced but plenty of it is still around.
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