This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. While semiconductors and software continue to expand the capabilities of electronics products, a new kind of passive ...

Engineers generally focus most attention on active components such as transistors, optoelectronic devices, ICs, and the like. In any design, however, the characteristics of passive devices ...

When first learning about and building electronic circuits, the first things all of us come across are passive components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. These have easily-understandable ...

Due to the high complexity and networking of their control devices, today's vehicles require the utmost in reliability from individual electronic components. Power-hungry electrical applications ...

When we started talking about “passives” in previous articles, we stirred up a hornet’s nest. 1 Several engineers 2 inside Maxim Integrated and in the larger engineering community immediately ...