Foundries and packaging houses are wrestling how to control heat in the testing phase, particularly as devices continue to shrink and as thermally sensitive analog circuits are added into SoCs and ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors – a potential tool that industry could use to save tens of ...

This circuit uses pulsed current to check transistor hFE on an oscilloscope. The circuit creates the biasing conditions specified by the transistor’s manufacturer.

PCB - In Circuit Testing PCB - In Circuit Testing In Circuit Testing for Medium-High Volume PCBs: A Cost-Effective Method PCBs are widely recognized as being the most cost-effective to test in-circuit ...

Back in 2018 we reported on the first silicon integrated circuit to be produced in a homemade chip fab. It was the work of [Sam Zeloof], and his Z1 chip was a modest six-transistor amplifier. Not o… ...

Last time on Circuit VR, we looked at creating a very simple common emitter amplifier, but we didn’t talk about how to select the capacitor values, or much about why we wanted them. We are go… ...