Is your laptop battery any good? This secret Windows tool gives hard numbers

If you want a detailed measure of your laptop's battery life, you can simply generate a battery report in Windows. Here's how ...
Electronic Design

Surface-Mount X-, Y-Capacitors First to Carry AEC-Q200 Rating

These X- and Y-capacitors in surface-mount housings, built to suppress EMI, reduce cost and simplify production.
IEEE

Switched-Capacitor-Based DC–AC Boosting Circuit: Synthesis and Operation

Abstract: The novel inverter topologies are often intriguing and ignite interest in knowing the rationale behind their circuit synthesis, which is usually not detailed. This article provides a step-by ...

TAIYO YUDEN Commercializes the "HVX (-J)" and "HTX (-J)" Series of Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors Featuring a Higher Rated Ripple Current and Lower ...

TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. has commercialized the new "HVX (-J)" and "HTX (-J)" series of conductive polymer hybrid aluminum electrolytic capacitors (hereinafter referred to as "hybrid capacitors") by ...
IEEE

A Generalized Active Voltage Balancing Circuit Implementation for Flying Capacitor 3-Level Switching-Mode DC–DC Converters

This paper presents a generalized control architecture for implementing the active balancing of the flying capacitor voltage in any kind of 3-level switching-mode DC-DC converters, independently from ...
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Why Do Circuits Need Capacitors?

Capacitors are small components with a big job—storing and releasing energy in electronic circuits. This video explains how capacitors smooth voltage, filter signals, and support stable power flow in ...