We Put the Best Multimeters to the Test. Our Top Pick is Ideal for Both Beginners and Pros

Want to safely repair an electric appliance or simply test your home’s wiring? Get shopping tips as well as our top tool ...
PBS

Integrated Circuits

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...
EDN

WDT in safety standards

The types of diagnostic measures that use watchdog timers as recommended by the IEC61508-2 standard to address failures in ...
Hackaday

Blinking An LED With A Single Transistor

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components ...
Hackaday

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Boosting Voltage With Just A Wire

Switching power supplies are familiar to Hackaday readers, whether they have a fairly conventional transformer, are a buck, a ...
IEEE

An Efficient VCD Parser for Dynamic Power Estimation of Digital Integrated Circuits

Abstract: Parsing value change dump (VCD) files through signal turnover behavior is important for power analysis and estimation. In practical applications, the size of VCD files can reach hundreds of ...
IEEE

Design and Implementation of Two-Stage Time-to-Digital Converter Based on Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits

Abstract: This work proposed a new time-to-digital converter (TDC) utilizing rapid single-flux-quantum circuits. The proposed TDC architecture comprises a counter and a ring oscillator to construct a ...