A friend from the newly founded Yeovil Hackerspace introduced me to a device known as “The Kraakdoos” or cracklebox. The cracklebox is an early electronic instrument produced by STEIM in the 1970s.

Let’s say that for a project you are working on, you need an opamp (of course, I would like it to be one of one of Touchstone’s opamps), and you want to make sure that the amplifier meets your ...

Modeling the performance of an analog device with SPICE is one of the standard techniques used by circuit designers to perform initial characterization and performance analysis before putting together ...

I’m not just going to tell you the answer right away. There were various things to notice in analyzing this circuit. Each of the important aspects are worth some points along the way, although the ...