Like the common emitter circuit, input impedance significantly exceeds output impedance. The common-base configuration is frequently used as a current buffer or a voltage amplifier. The circuit input ...

All the circuits we worked with in the previous article had the transistor’s emitter taken to ground, took their input from the base, and their output from the collector.

This section outlines the basic characteristics and application design of general-purpose transistor output photocouplers (optical isolators). The figure shows the pin configuration of TLP785. CTR is ...

Circuits sometimes need a gain-of-one buffer to lower output impedance and prevent the load from interfering with the previous stage. For an application involving a 1.5-MHz, low-power transmitter and ...

Modern circuit design is a "mixed signal" endeavor thanks to the availability of sophisticated process technologies that make available bipolar and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), ...

The 10-kΩ resistor in the base circuit provides enough current to saturate the transistor and drop the V CE voltage to approximately ... The two-transistor circuit offers the additional benefit of ...

This work suggests switching circuit configurations applicable to high-speed data processing systems and utilizing graded-base transistors. The article is oriented toward obtaining the maximum ...

A synchronized transistor switching circuit has been designed for use in computer applications. The circuit is phase bistable rather than amplitude bistable. The basic unit of the circuit is a ...

Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design Written by Tom Espiner, Contributor May 28, 2009 at 3:34 a.m. PT The basic rules by which chips are being designed could be wrong, physicists have ...