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    [Moved]: Power Amplifier Terminologies

    dBm is dB relative to 1 milliwatt. Power can be any value relative to 1 mW, so positive or negative dB. Noise should hopefully be lower than signal, so the ratio 10*log(Pnoise/Psignal) should be negative for a useful device. One rating manufacturers give in the specs is for the "full scale"...
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    Why is our Bootstrap high side drive circuit blowing up?

    This is an interesting problem, with lots of answers, but I agree with Treez and Fvm early posts about reverse recovery transient. As you know, the difference between SiC and Schottky is the zero reverse recovery time of the former - i.e. no current transient. Since it broke when you changed...
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    LED (prefer SMT) that will be visible with 1.4Vdc

    possibly Osram LH R974 series, at 1.3V? but it looks like digikey only has 0805 I think Alkaline cells start a little above 1.5V when new. Assume 1.55V (?), then an initial guess for a resistor might be 0.25 V / 0.01A, or 25 ohms. I expect some trial and error may be involved, though.
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    power supply using silicon controlled rectfier (SCR)

    As "KlausST" and "Easy Peasy" indicated, this design needs an inductor before your 10000 uF capacitor. Since you want 12 A, this inductor likely will not be small, or lightweight. So at some point you are no better off (wrt size and weight) than if you simply stepped down the voltage using a...
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    Connecting voltage source instead of of a battery on a laptop

    I agree this should work, although you don't have to go to any great lengths to make a charger. The Li-ion batteries put out about 13.6 V when fully charged, down to about 10.8 V when they are close to discharged. They typically prevent discharging below this voltage to help prolong the life...
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    [SOLVED] Changing the value of the fixed sma 3 db attenuator in a high pass mixer.

    There are two reasons I can think of for the attenuators - the first is power. The question is whether the various mixer inputs are rated for 2x the power they are being run at (i.e. +3dB relative to the current configuration). Too much power might blow the diode(s) inside the mixer, so...
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    Design flow for making a CPU

    I have seen CPU designs developed in a couple of books on learning VHDL or Verilog. One that I could put my hands on is by Sunggu Lee, ISBN 0-534-46602-8. Another is by Pong P. Chu, who describes the elements of Xilinx's MicroBlaze processor in his "FPGA Prototyping by V___ Examples" books...
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    Purpose of Multiple Parallel MOSFETs in Circuit

    I would expect there will be a measurable difference when the batteries are marginal, so that there is less voltage available to turn on the transistor. Figure 1 in the spec sheet indicates that at 2.5V (e.g. old resistive batteries mostly discharged) the current through one transistor would be...
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    [Moved] PCB manufacturers working with RO4350

    Re: PCB manufacturers working with RO4350 Sunstone https://www.sunstone.com/news-resources/article/2011/02/15/sunstone-circuits-now-offering-rogers-materials-shipped-within-24-hours-of-purchasing
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    Altium designer error message

    Re: the film is too small for this pcb This happened to us because some components got placed off the board (e.g. at -44000 mils). We don't know how this happened, but none of the suggested techniques like "view | Fit Document" would locate them onscreen. Our solution was to use Shift-F12...

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