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Potentiometer Circuits, Page 5
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Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • Ten Turn Pot Forms Frequency Readout
    Let’s say you are designing a signal generator for a test fixture. To adjust the frequency you would like to use a ten turn pot with a nice dial mechanism attached as a frequency display. However, a display range of 0 to 9.99 would be impractical since there is no such frequency as 0. But since many pot dials have a display....

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Resolution Enhancements of Digital Potentiometers with Multiple Devices:  AN-582 - Analog Devices Application Notes  (added 2/06)

Rotary encoder mates with digital potentiometer:  02/06/03 EDN Design Ideas  /  (added 1/05)  In developing electronic systems, designers look for products or ideas that may benefit from the better performance, smaller size, lower cost, and improved reliability that an IC can offer. Toward that end, the digital potentiometer emerged as an alternative to its mechanical counterpart, the mechanical potentiometer....

Shielding and Guarding:  AN-347 - Analog Devices Application Notes  (added 2/06)

Single Switch Controls digital potentiometer #1:  02/07/02  EDN - Design Ideas / (Electronic circuit added 10/03)    The control of electronic potentiometers in most today's applications comes from controller-generated signals. However, a significant number of applications exist that require adjustments using manual, front-panel controls. The circuit in Figure 1 uses one IC, one switch, and 10 discrete components. .

Single Switch Controls digital potentiometer #2:  09/19/02  EDN - Design Ideas / (Electronic circuit added 10/03)    This Design Idea is an evolution and simplification of another (Figure 1, Reference 1). Replacing the three inverted-input NOR gates with their logical equivalents, positive-input NAND gates, makes these three gate symbols consistent with the fourth, which was drawn as a positive-input NAND gate. The 74HC132's data sheet describes the device as a quad, two-input NAND gate with hysteresis..

Soft Start Circuit for Power Amps:  (added 1/03)

Software implements digital potentiometer:  06/08/95 EDN-Design Ideas / (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Tack a log taper onto a digital potentiometer:  01/20/00 EDN-Design Ideas / (Electronic circuit added 5/02) / idea to convert linear digital potentiometer to a logarithmic digital potentiometer

Using a Digital Potentiometer to Optimize a Precision Single Supply Photo Detect:  Microchip Application Note - Published 23-Feb-01   (added 2/06)

Using Digital Potentiometers to Design Low Pass Adjustable Filters:  Microchip Application Note - Published 24-Feb-04   (added 2/06)

Versatile Programmable Amplifiers using Digital Potentiometers with Nonvolatile Memory:  AN-579 - Analog Devices Application Notes  (added 2/06)

Voltage Regulator goes Digital:  11/24/99 EDN-Design Ideas / (Electronic circuit added 5/02) - Power consumption and failing batteries are key issues in battery-operated applications. Features in the new generation of series voltage regulators address these concerns. For example, National Semiconductors LP2951 MicroPower voltage regulator provides a logic-level output signal indicating a low regulated output voltage; the IC also has a logic-level input to shut down the regulator to conserve power.

Where is the Wiper?:  08/08/02 EDN Design Ideas  /  (added 1/05)  You enjoy significant advantages when using DPPs (digitally programmable potentiometers) with increment/decrement serial interfaces. Programming the serial interface is simple and fast, and you can adjust the potentiometer in real-time applications. The interface, however, provides no information about wiper position, and this information is important in some applications....

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