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Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • FET INPUT HIGH SPEED LIGHT DETECTOR
    This circuit is yet another design that converts current from a PIN photo diode to a voltage. It has a bandwidth that extends beyond 50MHz.

  • FINGER TOUCH ACTIVATED SWITCH
    It does not get any easier if you want a solid-state switch that is activated by the touch of a finger. Two small metal pins route voltage through the finger skin to a MOSFET switch. The circuit is great for situations where a membrane type mechanical switch is not desired.
  • High Impedance JFET Buffers
    I have used these circuits many times.  They are great when you need a low gain AC signal amplifier with a very high input impedance.  It is good to beyond 50MHz. (added 12/04)

Links to electronic circuits, electronic schematics, designs for engineers, hobbyists, students & inventors:
Eliminating Parasitic Oscillation between Parallel MOSFETs -  Application Note Microsemi-formerly Advanced Power Technology APT0402  ( app note added 2/07)
FET audio mixer (Aaron Cake) -  This simple circuit mixes two or more channels into one channel (eg. stereo into mono).....(circuit / schematic design added 7/02)
FET biasing targets battery-powered PWM applications -  21-Nov-05 Issue of EDN  Reference provides constant bias voltage regardless of supply-voltage variations..... [Design Idea by Steve Franks, Franks Development LLC, Tucson, AZ; Edited by Brad Thompson and Fran Granville]
FET Circuit Applications -  National Semiconductor Application Note.....[App Note]
FET Input High Speed Light Detector -  This circuit is yet another design that converts current from a PIN photo diode to a voltage. It has a bandwidth that extends beyond 50MHz. …. [Designed by David A. Johnson]
FET Preamp Cable -  (electronic diagram added 6/03)
Finger Touch Activated Switch -  It does not get any easier if you want a solid-state switch that is activated by the touch of a finger. Two small metal pins route voltage through the finger skin to a MOSFET switch. The circuit is great for situations where a membrane type mechanical switch is not desired. …. [Designed by David A. Johnson]
FM Transmitter -  A compact 2 transistor transmitter for use at VHF frequencies…. [Andy Collison]
Fuzz-Box -  All-FET design.  Valve-like distortion behavior (added 3/05)
Gate Drive Design for Large Die MOSFETS -  The successful design of robust gate drive circuitry for high voltage, very high current MOSFET devices is no different than designing driver circuitry for smaller devices and depends on an understanding of the drive requirementsApplication Note Microsemi APT9302  ( app note added 4/08)
Gate-drive method extends supply's input range -  26-Jun-03 Issue of EDN  Industrial and telecom applications often require a nonisolated, low-voltage supply from a high-voltage input. IC manufacturers have responded to that need with the application of high-voltage processes and offer control ICs that work to 50V and higher. That voltage is sometimes insufficient, and you need further design techniques to extend the input voltage..... [Design Idea by John Betten and Robert Kollman, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX]
H-BRIDGE Theory & Practice -  A number of web sites talk about H-bridges, they are a topic of great discussion in robotics clubs and they are the bane of many robotics hobbyists. I periodically chime in on discussions about them, and while not an expert by a long shot I've built a few over the years. Further, they were one of my personal stumbling blocks when I was first getting into robotics.....[Chuck McManis]
High Current MOSFET  Flip Flop with Debounced Pushbutton -  This circuit was adapted from the "Toggle Switch Debounced Pushbutton" by John Lundgren. It is particularly useful in controlling a load from several locations where the load may be switched on from one location and switched off from another. Any number of momentary (N/O) switches or push buttons may be connected in parallel. The circuit.....(electronic schematic / circuit added 11/05)
High Impedance JFET Buffers -  I have used these circuits many times.  They are great when you need a low gain AC signal amplifier with a very high input impedance.  It is good to beyond 50MHz. (added 12/04) …. [Designed by David A. Johnson]
High Voltage, High Efficiency MOSFET RF Amplifiers -  Application Note Microsemi-formerly Advanced Power Technology APT0001  ( app note added 2/07)
High-impedance FET probe extends RF spectrum analyzer's usable range -  21-Jul-05 Issue of EDN  Op amp and careful design/construction build high-impedance RF probe..... [Design Idea by Steve Hageman, Windsor, CA; Edited by Brad Thompson and Fran Granville]
High-side driver feeds IGBTs and MOSFETs -  11/23/00 EDN-Design Ideas The low- to moderate-power system in Figure 1 provides the interface between a pulse-width modulator and a high-side IGBT (insulated-gatebipolar-transistor) or MOSFET switch.  You can use it to interface TTL or CMOS circuitry to an H-bridge..... [Design idea by Carlisle Dolland, Honeywell Engines and Systems, Torrance, CA]
High-Voltage MOSFET Behavior in Soft-Switching Converters: Analysis & Reliability Improvements -  The benefits of soft-switching converters, and in particular zero-voltage switching (ZVS, also called zerovoltage-transition [ZVT] or resonant-transition) circuits, are well-known. High-frequency converters powered from high source voltage show significant improvements when operated with soft switching.  Application Note Microsemi APT9804_04  ( app note added 4/08)
Hot Swap & Blocking FET Control using 2 x ADM1073 Hot Swap Controllers -  AN-694 Analog Devices Application Note.....[App Note]
HT04 Series -  Supertex Semiconductors  (app note added 2/06)


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