Recent content by nlantz

Lets look at this from a different direction. Capacitance and inductance are mathematically... weird. They are differential equations and they hurt to look at. But I think it will help if you stick with me for a second. Let's look at Capacative and Inducive Impedance (just a slightly more...

I have given this some thought also. If you could make a semiconductor that you could turn on and off the conduction, you could conduct electrons in and then force them to breakdown to get out. It would also need a very low dialectics strength. I don't think i could build this without a...

I have been really fascinated with the dielectric breakdown artwork by Bert Hickman seen here. He is using a 5MeV accelerator to embed electrons in acrylic. He then discharges them to create beautiful fractal patterns. I emailed him last year asking how to calculate the penetration depth of...

I don't have any info about the gates inside the IC.

Some loss is OK. The next stage is a stage is actually a step attenuator. I am estimating it will need to be at about 6dB nominally. I could just dial that back a bit and we would be fine.

I thought that was wrong also. Unless the gate of the MOSFET is the output a high impedance output doesn't make sense. And the gate should never be the output. That's the output impedance that the company told me though. I am going to measure it myself when the evaluation kit comes in. From my...

To address your first question: We have to remember that capacitance and inductance cancel each other out in the complex plane. You can almost think of them as opposites of the same thing (Just don't tell a physicist i said that) like add and subtract , or multiply and divide. I found this image...

Oops, sorry I was looking at POS instead of SOP. (It's been a few years) I think you were right the first time. Y*(A, B, C, D) = πM(1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) ABCDY* Y 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0...

Active low means the same thing as logical NOT. It is the same thing as if you put a line over Y. However, for the case: Y*(A, B, C, D) = πM(1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) your answer is opposite because they are asking you do define Y* If the question asked for Y then you would have to invert your...

I need to somehow take the output of a CMOS IC and transmit that signal over a 50 Ohm Microstrip line. The output impedance of the CMOS IC is about 15 megaohms. I see a lot of examples for going from 75 ohms to 50 ohms or similar but nothing on something of this magnitude. Any ideas? CMOS...

So I have seen some people doing making lichtenberg figures using a particle accelerator to blast electrons into a dielectric where they get stuck until the dielectric breaks down. Here is an example http://www.capturedlightning.com/ Are there other ways to get electrons into a dielectric other...