When we are taught about oscillators as newbie engineers, we are shown a variety of waveforms on an oscilloscope or in a textbook. This is a sine wave, they say, this is a sawtooth, this is a square ...

Pity the poor TTL computer aficionado. It’s an obsession, really — using discrete logic chips to scratch-build a computer that would probably compare unfavorably to an 80s era 8-bit machine in terms ...

Transistor-transistor-logic or TTL parts have been around for a long time and now and then, I still seem to run across this or that “thing” where they've been designed in, not necessarily in the ...

I fear the topic of this column is poised to unleash a tsunami of controversy. My engineering accomplice Joe Farr says that this is one of those topics that, when presented to 10 different engineers, ...

In some cases, newer releases of data sheets contain less information than their counterparts from yesteryear. Does this make anyone else wonder if we’re really making progress? In some cases, newer ...