Few realize how close an optical coupler resembles a relay. It is so close, in fact, that one can be wired as a Run-Stop latch circuit. One advantage over the relay is that it may be turned off via a ...

Learn some techniques for preventing latch-up, a phenomenon that causes a short circuit and damage to your ICs, such as using CMOS, guard rings, and simulation. Agree & Join LinkedIn ...

Applications of the Soft Latching Circuit. The soft latch circuit is well suited for battery-operated portable instruments as it has zero voltage in the off state. Soft latch circuit can be used to ...

Figure 2 This circuit shows a normal start-up sequence for the circuit in Figure 1. Figure 3 These traces represent start-up with the second output of a two-output regulator shorted. Related articles: ...

This choice provides a continuous retry in the event of a fault. If the resistors are sufficiently large in value, the latch remains on and the power needs to be cycled to reset it. In this case, ...

The MM74HC573 is a 3-STATE octal D-type latch manufactured using Fairchild’s advanced silicon-gate P-well CMOS technology. It has a the ability to drive 15 LS-TTL loads in a wide operating voltage ...

Due to the scaling of CMOS technology dimension, the occurrence of transient fault will be increased when the sensitive nodes are struck by high-energy neutrons and alpha particles. If the transient ...

Single event latch-up (SEL) is a significant issue for electronics design in space application, which would cause large currents in electronic devices, and may lead to burning out of devices. A new ...

Abstract: The time needed by a bistable circuit to reach its stable state, when the initial state of the circuit is close to its metastable point, can vary substantially - causing malfunction of ...