OK, so I get a press release (pdf) from those wonderful folks at CamSemi, AKA Cambridge Semiconductor. It talks about their C2163 off-line switcher chip (pdf). The press release says: “…the BOM cost ...

Immediately, I learned that the common base configuration gain was 6db lower than the common emitter. This blew my mind. Then I started checking input resistance and was shocked at how low it measured ...

Just as the common emitter amplifier and common base amplifier each tied those respective transistor terminals to a fixed potential and used the other two terminals as amplifier input and output, so ...

Abstract: A differential amplifier with the input transistor pair operating in the common-base mode was designed for a dc to 100-MHz current preamplifier application. It features 0.6-ohm input ...

Abstract: The third-order common-base transistor circuit is a kind of chaotic signal generator, which can be easily realized in any laboratory. The principal purpose of this paper is studying the ...

We’ve previously remarked upon a generation lucky enough to be well-versed in microcontrollers and computersised electronics through being brought up on the Arduino or the Raspberry Pi but unlucky ...