Flickering lights in the house can be due to any number of issues, some very serious indeed. Our guide reveals eight common causes and how to resolve them ...

Sixth-grader Sofia was astonished. After she had designed and tested an LED circuit for three straight classes, her electronic greeting card was lighting up. The greeting card wasn’t just a school ...

Abstract: Synthetic biologists engineered the first genetic toggle switch and clock at the turn of the 21st century. Since the development of these first gene circuits, methods for circuit design and ...

Tamper detection devices, commonly built around switches and sensors, employ several techniques according to design specifications and operating environments. T. K. Hareendran examines several ...

In vehicle electrical systems, a high- to low-voltage DC/DC converter is a reversible electronic device that changes the DC from the vehicle’s high-voltage (400 V or 800 V) battery to a lower DC ...

Abstract: Flyback converter is a type of isolated buck-boost converter where it uses a mutually coupled inductor to store energy in the magnetic field. Discontinuous ...

Designing microchips is among the most complex tasks in the digital world. It requires vast amounts of theoretical and practical knowledge, as well as a heaping dose of creativity. There are ...

“The ‘more flexible approach’ adopted this week will unquestionably give [design patent] challengers more latitude to argue that prior art warrants a finding of obviousness.” Applications for design ...