Hackaday

How Your SID May Not Be As Tuneful As You’d Like

The MOS Technologies 6581, or SID, is perhaps the integrated circuit whose sound is most sought-after in the chiptune world.
Live Science

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
IEEE

Accurate Sub-circuit Model of LDMOS Transistor with Drift Region Emphasis

Abstract: In this work, we proposed a high-precision sub-circuit model on drift region to capture electrical characteristics of a lateral double-diffused MOSFET (LDMOS). The novel sub-circuit model ...
IEEE

Test Bench for Static, Dynamic and Thermal Cycling Tests of Power Semiconductor Transistors at Cryogenic Temperatures

Abstract: Cryogenic electronics remains a promising direction for increasing the power density of power converters. However, the reliability characteristics of power semiconductor components cooled by ...