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Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • SQUARE WAVE DRIVER HAS FLEXIBLE OUTPUTS
    This circuit can produce an output signal ranging from DC to 100KHz. It can source a voltage ranging from 1v to 30v. It can sink a voltage ranging from zero volts to –30v. It can drive up to 200ma of current and can even be switched to a floating tristate output.

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Scheme provides High Side Current sensing for White LED Drivers - 02/19/04 EDN-Design Ideas: White LEDs find wide use in backlighting color-LCD screens in most portable devices, such as cellular phones, PDAs, and MP3 players. Multiple LEDs often connect in series to ensure that the same current flows through every LED. To forward-bias these LEDs, a voltage of 10 to 16V.....(design idea added 1/05)
Senses & displays ambient light intensity - 11/09/06 EDN-Design Ideas: LED doubles as photosensor and visual indicator of ambient-light intensity.....(design idea added 05/07)
Sensor Electronic Tracker with H-Bridge Drive - (electronic circuit added 7/03)
Serial Comms to LED Driver - (circuit / schematic added 2/03)
Serial Interface & bias supply for Seiko-Epson G1216B dot graphics display - (circuit schematic added 6/07)
Serial Interface for Truly MTC-C162DPLY-2N, 2 line X 16 char LCD display - (schematic / circuit added 6/07)
Series Connected Voltage Boost Circuit for a Battery Operated LED Lantern - A circuit that goes in series with a white LED and a 1.5 volt cell to make > 3 Volts to drive a white LED...(schematic / circuit added 6/07)

 

Series White LED Driver  - National Semiconductor Application Note LM3590 November 2003 (app note added 02/05)
Servo Pulse to PWM - converter connects an H-Bridge to radio control receivers or robotic circuits. (added 7/03)
Simple 0 to 24 dB Gain Amplifier & Balanced Line Driver - AS022 Jenson Transformer Application Note  (app note 04/03/02)
Simple Active Matrix LCD Bias Supply Operates from Battery Input - 02/03/00 EDN-Design Ideas: Many active-matrix-LCD applications need multiple voltages for thin-film-transistor (TFT)bias. Typically, three voltages are necessary: 5V for the column driver; a positive voltage, such as 10V; and a negative voltage, such -5V, for the TFT gate drive, or row driver. For handheld electronic devices, a battery.....(design idea added 11/05)
Simple Circuit for Driving MicroController Friendly PWM Generators - Microchip Application Note Published 27-Jun-05  (app note added 6/06)
Simple circuit smoothly drives stepper motors - 05/28/09 EDN- Design Ideas,   ).....(design idea added 08/09
Simple single cell white LED driver uses improvised transformer - 02/15/07 EDN-Design Ideas: Minimal component-count circuit boosts a single cell's voltage to light an LED.....(design idea added 6/07)
Simple Solenoid Driver Reduces Power & Cost - 07/18/96 EDN-Design Ideas:.....(design idea added 6/06)
Simple VCOM adjustment uses any Logic Supply Voltage - 09/30/04 EDN-Design Ideas: All TFT (thin-film-transistor)LCD panels require at least one appropriately tuned VCOM signal to provide a reference point for the panel's backplane. The exact value of VCOM varies from panel to panel, so the manufacturer must program the voltage at the factory to match the characteristics of each screen.....(design idea added 6/06)
Simplest LED Flasher circuit - (schematic / circuit added 6/07)
Simplified White LED Flasher Operates from One Cell - 05/26/05 EDN-Design Ideas: The white-LED flasher in Figure 1 offers an alternative approach to a previously published idea (Reference 1). Targeting use in portable appliances and products powered by a single cell, this circuit flashes an LED to provide a highly visible warning signal—for example,.....(design idea added 1/06)
Single Cell TPS61041 LED Driver Slva136.Htm, 1 Kb - TI Application Note  (added 6/06)
Single microController pin senses ambient light controls illumination - 10/26/06 EDN-Design Ideas: LED circuit senses light and controls its own brightness.....(design idea added 6/07)
Single NiCd Cell Drives OpAmp - 12/05/96 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 6/06)
Single Port Pin Drives Dual Led - 10/13/05 EDN -Design Ideas    Single-line LED driving can be versatile.....(design idea added 6/06)
Single-ended driver for a Circlotron OTL - Originally, this circuit was driving a 6B4G PP output stage. Transformer-coupled, naturally. I started with cap-coupled Mullard splitter using three 4P1L direct-heated loktal pentodes. Not bad at all, but had insufficient gain. Then I tried a plain Loftin-White configuration with a LL1660 interstage (this one is a one-of-a-kind custom 30mA version...(schematic added 05/08)
Solenoid Driver Reduces Power & Cost - 07/18/96 EDN-Design Ideas:.....(design idea added 6/06)
Sorting Out Backplane Driver Alphabet Soup - National Semiconductor Application Note  (app note added 2/06)
Square Wave Driver Has Flexible Outputs - This circuit can produce an output signal ranging from DC to 100KHz. It can source a voltage ranging from 1v to 30v. It can sink a voltage ranging from zero volts to –30v. It can drive up to 200ma of current and can even be switched to a floating tristate output. ….(designed by David A. Johnson)
Stall Motor Switch Machine Drivers LM556 - (circuit / schematic design added 6/06)
Stealth mode LED controls itself - 05/25/06 EDN-Design Ideas: High-efficiency LED doubles as a light detector.....(design idea added 6/07)
Stepper Motor Controller (Aaron Cake) - (electronic circuit added 4/05)
Stepper Motor Controller (interg) - There are many kind of stepper motors. Unipolar type, Bipolar type, Single-phase type, Multi-phase type. Single-phase stepper motor….(electronic circuit added 08/08/08).
Stepper Motor Controller Connection Diagrams - Four-Wire Connection The ULN2003 / MC1413 is a 7-bit 50V 500mA TTL-input NPN darlington driver. This is more than adequate to control a four phase unipolar stepper motor such as the KP4M4-001. ….(circuit design added 11/08)
Stepper Motor Drive - (application / block diagram added 6/07)
Stepper Motor Driver (74194) - Probably the simplest, reversible drive circuit is the H-Bridge. Some BEAMbots use H-bridge motor drivers; many more use an H-bridge variant of some sort. . ….(design added 11/08)
Stepper Motor Driver using TEA3718/3717 - (circuit / schematic design added 6/06)
Switching regulator drives robot motor - 05/13/99 EDN-Design Ideas:.....(design idea added 6/06)
Switching regulator efficiently controls white LED current - 04/27/06 EDN-Design Ideas: Circuit has 93% efficiency and beats 64% efficiency of series resistor approach.....(design idea added 11/06)
Switching solenoid Driver - (circuit / schematic design added 6/06)
Synchronous Buck/Boost High Power White LED Driver - Linear Technology LT3453 (app note added 2/05)

 

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