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Showing posts with label analog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label analog. Show all posts

Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo

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How did the Apollo astronauts communicate on their trip to the Moon, 240,000 miles back to Earth? They used a 32-pound amplifier, built ar...
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"Space age electronics": Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s

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In the early 1960s, General Electric developed a technology called thin-film electronics. 1 These circuits were built from thin films of ...
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Reverse-engineering a vintage comparator chip

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I recently saw an interesting die photo of an unknown chip on Twitter , so I did some analysis of it. Looking at the circuitry inside, the...
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Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside

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The quartz oscillator is an important electronic circuit, providing highly-accurate timing signals at a low cost. A quartz crystal has the...
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