BUDGE ING, Maxim Integrated Products Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. [email protected] Because digital systems often have only a single-polarity power supply, a common problem becomes translating an ...

My last column (“Designing with comparators,” EDN, March 29, 2001, pg 56) discussed basic comparator theory, and this column adds hysteresis to comparators to eliminate multiple switching on the ...

Traditional digital comparator ICs are electronic analogs of mechanical lever scales. Like their mechanical counterparts, they compare two logical signals and produce an output (typically a voltage ...