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 ...

That’s the list. Those are your passive components. Well, it’s not that easy. Also add in a bunch of types of sensors, because they are still passive. A photoresistor is a sensor but it’s still a ...

For both active and passive devices, the negative of effects of thermal shock can be as detrimental as steady-state operation at extended temperatures. Ensuring system ruggedness and long-term ...

PCB flaws and errors that are usually hidden, or at least disguised, can introduce passive errors into IC performance. To understand how these errors occur, though, we must first examine the ...

Most modern electronic devices consist of several key components: transistors, capacitors, resistors, inductors and diodes. Often, they are supplemented by additional components like crystals and ...

Many manufacturers of passive components focus on addressing the key challenges designers face: cost and board space. A lot of new designs are all about reducing the number of components in the ...

In brief: The tech supply chain is still coping with the perfect storm of factors that has led to jammed up ports and severe bottlenecks in the flow of raw materials and components needed to build ...