Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Sergei Starus/Getty Images Modern washing machines have rows of buttons and knobs with multiple cycles, washes, and ...

For reasons that will be discussed later, most applications of PWM vary the duty cycle or the period of the pulse train while the frequency remains fixed. This raises the next question, how fast can ...

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

This design tip illustrates how utilization of a P-channel MOSFET is likely the best option to cost-effectively deliver 100% duty-cycle capabilities in a switching regulator. 1. Shown is a typical ...

Shutting down inactive circuitry can save substantial power; however, this kind of power management assumes there is an actively managing “brain” (typically a microcontroller) that knows when to turn ...

The circuit shown here can be used to convert a digital input signal having any desired duty cycle into a output signal having a duty cycle that can be adjusted between 10% and 80% in steps of 10%.

(1) A machine's rated capacity to continuously perform work under normal conditions. It generally applies to mechanical devices such as printers, in which case it would indicate the number of pages ...