SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Design engineers debated the practical uses of controlled equivalent series resistance bypass capacitors at an evening panel discussion during DesignCon here Monday (Jan. 29).

Back in school when being introduced to the basics of electrical engineering, we learned that the ideal capacitor was a simple, basic reactive element. It was easily modeled with capacitive reactance ...

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AVX Corporation, has announced a new low ESR tantalum capacitor range which includes - for the first time - low ESR 330µF/6.3V parts in a C case size (6032-26). Previously, the only low ESR option ...

[Peter Demchenko] wanted to use a low power TS555 in an ESR meter design. The problem is, he needed to handle significant current sink requirements for cases where the capacitor under test had a low ...