Find Modern Linear on DesignFast

Find 500+ parts from Modern Linear on DesignFast. Modern Linear’s goal is to improve the performance of automated equipment. To achieve this, they develop products that offer superior longevity, improve machine performance, and lower operating costs. Their customer service goals are to always ship from stock or with the shortest manufacturing lead times in the…

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Find Renesas on DesignFast

Find 15,200+ parts from Renesas on DesignFast. Renesas Electronics Corporation delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial,…

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Find CUI on DesignFast

Find 8300+ parts from CUI on DesignFast. Motivated by their customers’ needs, CUI is focused on creating ease of access to power supply products and information that help drive an engineer’s design. Their goal is to improve the way power products are purchased today and into the future. Originally starting out as a company that…

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Find Texas Instruments on DesignFast

Find 52,000+ parts from Texas Instruments on DesignFast. For decades, Texas Instruments has operated with a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. They were pioneers in the transition of the world from vacuum tubes to transistors and then to integrated circuits (ICs) – and they’ve been advancing IC…

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Find TE Connectivity on DesignFast

Find 70,000+ parts from TE Connectivity on DesignFast. For more than 75 years, TE Connectivity have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing products that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability and durability, their commitment to progress, and the unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies large and…

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Find Heilind on DesignFast

Find over 1.2 million parts from Heiland on DesignFast. Heilind is one of the world’s leading distributors of connectors, relays, switches, thermal management and circuit protection products, terminal blocks, wire and cable, wiring accessories, and insulation and identification products. We are the industry’s pre-eminent interconnect distributor, with the largest inventory of connector products in North…

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Why use an e-fuse? Part 1

This article was originally posted at EEWorldOnline.com SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 BY Bill Schweber The electronic fuse is a powerful and versatile tool in the designer’s kit, but building one requires careful selection of the core amplifier; IC embodiments solve the problem. The traditional thermal-based fuse, Figure 1, is a low-cost, widely used, well-understood, highly reliable, easy-to-apply circuit- protection component.…

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