This second exciting installment of diodes gets down the nitty-gritty of semiconductor physics (literally sand - geddit?!). However, since my E&M/Calc III is a bit rusty, I'm going to gloss over a more rigorous mathematical treatment and focus on a more high level description. If

For many designers, diodes seem like the simplest part of your circuits. After all, they just block current from passing in one direction, right? Well, it turns out there's a lot more to diodes than meets the eye! This blog entry is based on a great chapter I

Were you fooled by the post picture? Surprise! This is a circuits post. This beautiful sunset is just to give you a taste of the beautiful derivation that is to come... How often have you been in this situation? You've found yourself the perfect buck converter for motherboard

Connecting your circuits to the outside world is one of the most important and most terrifying things for a circuit designer. It is both what makes your circuit useful and also the time an unsuspecting user plugs in that out-of-spec power adapter from Joe Schmoe's House of Crappy