Hot-swap circuits are among those measures put in place to protect equipment or personnel, or both. Some power supplies, for example, have built-in and adjustable current limiting (standard in ...

Figure 2 shows a coordinated circuit-protection design for an LED driver and an LED array. A thermally protected precision zener diode can help protect circuits from damage from overvoltage and ...

SPICE can serve as a valuable tool to validate and optimize the performance of surge-protection circuits using transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) avalanche diodes.

TVS Diodes – This general category of devices protects a wide variety of circuits and components from an assortment of threats, including repetitive pulses in electrical fast transients, inductive ...

RS-485-based systems must satisfy data transfer requirements with a high level of transient immunity, making it more important than ever for designers to choose a robust circuit protection solution.

What if your Gigabit Ethernet protection circuit response resembled that of an ideal diode? Asks Len Stencel, applications manager for semiconductor products at Bourns. Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is a ...