There was a time when building electronics and building software were two distinct activities. These days, almost any significant electronic project will use a CPU somewhere, or — at least — could.

Local power that is available for protection circuits, such as desaturation detection. Among the disadvantages of this type of driver are the cost, complexity and board space required for all the ...

Today's motors are increasingly driven via electronic controls, which offer better control of speed, position, and torque, as well as much greater efficiency, rather than via direct connection to ...

The scope of application fields that exploit the high speed and low saturation voltage characteristics of IGBTs is expanding rapidly. It includes industrial applications, such as inverters for solar ...

(Image courtesy of Elsevier Publishing). Who else would you want to author a book about the IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) than its inventor, Dr. B. Jayant Baliga? This invention is widely ...