In the late 1990s I was working for a company that manufactures sub-systems for tramways, subways and light rail car manufacturers. One day my boss tells me that one of our inverters, a 5 kW DC to ...

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Well, seeing as tubes were used for amplification, AND for switching, before transistors were developed, and that transistors were developed as a means of miniaturizing electronics for things like ...

This is the third installment in our CPU design series. In Part 1, we covered computer architecture and how a processor works at a high level. Part 2 explored the design and implementation of ...