Chris Gammell from the blog The amp hour and Analog Life is running a 555 timer IC design contest. EDN’s Mike Demler wrote ... to some of the true nature of some contests (yet another block of people ...

In this Design Idea, we’ve taught the classic 555 timer IC to consume zero current in its quiescent ... Figure 1 This simplified block diagram represents the internal circuitry of the 555 timer. The ...