Among other interface problems, contact bounce complicates the connection of mechanical contacts or any noisy digital input signal to a microcontroller. Although designers have proposed a variety of ...

In biomedical instrumentation (for example), we're sometimes faced with very noisy or badly-behaved signals from which we need to derive information. In this example, I needed to “square up” a ...

There are some design complications encountered in applications that use single-supply circuitry to process an ac input signal. One drawback is that the signal often can’t be attenuated and ...

Vishay has introduced a series of 1Mbaud (2MHz NRZ) optocouplers with built-in Schmitt trigger and open collector output. Called the VOH1016A series, the typical input current for output turn-on is ...