EDN

Improved laser-diode-clamp circuit protects against overvoltages

Expensive semiconductor laser diodes have no tolerance for fast voltage or current transients. To minimize the risk of damage, a standard JFET-clamp circuit shorts the laser when there is no supply ...
EDN

Application Hints for Transient Voltage Suppression Diode Circuits

External TVS diodes can be used to supplement the internal clamping diodes of ICs. Surge ability of silicon TVS diodes are related to size. External TVS diodes can be 10x larger than internal clamping ...
Electronic Design

Limitations of Traditional Circuit Protection for High Energy Surge Threats

There are limitations to older circuit protection solutions that use Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) diodes. Responding to this situation, completely new transient current suppressors utilize ...
Electronics Weekly

Precision rectifier/clamp works near 0V for single-supply circuits

And here it is, modelled using LTSpice. It is the same circuit as the classic simple precision rectifier (set to pass the negative half-sine), but with the non-inverting input of the op-amp connected ...
Electronic Design

Get A Grip On Clamps, Bias, And AC-Coupled Video Signals

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Why should you ac-couple your video signals? In many cases, it's because the application has a ...