
By Alan Ball, ON Semiconductor. Computer boards and peripherals interface with the internal power sources of a computer. There is a need for local protection circuitry whenever a device is interfaced to a power source with multiple loads.
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By Gary O'Donnell, Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. The issue regarding the future of standard logic is a question that seems to be asked every year, going back as far as the 1980s when it was predicted that standard logic was dead because ASICs and FPGAs had rendered the product category irrelevant.
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