Battery-operated equipment oftenwill benefit from a power-on indicator.The indicator, however, can wastesignificant power. In situations where alow-duty-cycle blinking indicator providesan adequate ...

Editor’s Note: This unusual circuit could be placed in the PLL/FLL family, but it’s neither. At its heart, it’s a self-adjusting monostable that will convert digital signals over a 5:1 frequency range ...

The duty cycle is the ratio of the turn-on time (TON) to the complete cycle length, the turn-off time (TOFF) plus on time, and defines a simple relationship between the input voltage and an output ...

A free-running generator built on the standard configuration of the 555 timer can't provide a duty cycle of exactly 50%. That's a well-known fact. Fortunately, there are several ways to get around ...

High-performance motion control demands compact and economical servomotors. Fortunately, because most servo applications only intermittently demand maximum continuous-torque motor output, a smaller ...