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    importing package standart footprint into Altium

    If the DIP16 "module" is a standard 300mil width, 100mil pitch then consider ripping off a 74xx logic part of proper size for the geometry stuff and fix the pin names?
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    Peak Detector Not working

    Failure-to-follow might be from an overloaded output or bad bias rails or a bad input common mode position or.... Debug time, not rando wild guess time.
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    ltspice problem implementing floating gate driving

    VGND through 1Mohm will surely hurt the isolation amplifier's HL slew and if the coupling is capacitive, you need slew rate clean inside. You must represent the two grounds locally-correct (per part operational needs) and then represent the connection between domains - shared earth, vacuum...
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    Matching circuit for RF energy harvester

    The rectifier matters, a lot. Old true crystal radios used galena (PbS, a natural II-VI semiconductor) as a point-contact Schottky diode of low Vf and low shunt-C. In the '70s I had one of those "spy pen radios" from the back of a magazine. Probably a germanium diode there, silicon costs you...
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    Matching circuit for RF energy harvester

    Last I looked at this was a couple of decades back for RFID tags, at RX power levels you will lose all the energy just trying to climb that front diode's I-V curve and fall back. A charge pump is not the same thing as a detector, and you are looking to pull energy from as close to zero...
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    vco - Need a circuit that control frequency of sine wave with same amplitude

    The trick for analog design would be to maintain constant amplitude over varying frequency. And of course small matters like intial accuracy, stability, distortion, drift with environmentals, supply ripple FM-ing the output tone, etc. If you wanted it all, something like an ADC feeding a PLL...
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    AS331 comparator has ESD diodes from each pin to Vcc and Gnd?

    The guts look like a 1-channel LM139. Nothing but a bare lateral PNP base contact at the input pins (and a back diode to help with "soft ESD" hot carrier drift). But by their nature the LPNP base also has the fat tank-iso junction which is fortunate for negative-going ESD and somewhat robust...
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    AS331 comparator has ESD diodes from each pin to Vcc and Gnd?

    If it's a straight rip-off of LM331 then it may not have any ESD circuitry at all. Old standard linear bipolar parts just "took their lumps", lacking thin oxides and having large device sizes.
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    capacitor logic for providing extra current on short period of time

    How much do you care about the voltage value and pulse flat-top? Given that you want this capacity from the power supply and caps and no added circuitry the acceptable loaded droop at current for time gives you the bulk C value by the basic equation.
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    Class E power amplifier cannot amplify

    In my limited RF opinion Class E is all about the matching network and the output switch parasitics must be lumped in to that, while switch on resistance must not matter at the match network. I observed the "real RF guys" spend a lot of time on the bench load-pulling, to dope out the...
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    Dc offest subtractor

    I think there's something missing (or multiple). Seems to me that there has to be a phase where inputs are opened to sources and shorted across, to get the null input condition, or you need some belief that input is exactly 0 difference on average over the timescale of the filter.
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    How to make SG3525's Output Voltage to 5V?

    At such a low frequency, seems like you could let the micro execute any PWM and drive a basic MOSFET driver from a logic output pin. There are isolating MOSFET drivers now which might offer some interconnection possibilities (like any-to-any cell leveling) used with a FET or just for their...
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    How to make SG3525's Output Voltage to 5V?

    5V supply won't get you out of UVLO. Look into more modern PMICs in CMOS that can drive logic-level MOSFETs and like 5V input (POL DC-DC). ONSemi, TI, ST, et al, use disti selector tools?
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    Internal logic of IO pads

    The output high and low side switches want their gates driven to make H, L and Z. You need a trivial couple of gates for that decode and of course the drive taper chain (inverters).
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    Good source for components equivalent

    Used to be that "NTE" would sell individual bagged "replacement" transistors at ham radio & TV repair places, had a faty cross reference book and so on. No idea whether they have survived the modern era or in what form, where. For older types often the discrete mfrs would have their own...

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