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High voltage current sense circuit

High-voltage current sensing circuit

High-side current sensing is used in a wide range of applications. Usually, it is used for overcurrent protection in power management circuits. On the market, there are many off-the-shelf operational amplifiers that can be used to measure current on the…

Low-side buck (step-down) converter

Buck converter circuit

A buck converter is a simple type of DC-to-DC converter that produces an output voltage that is less than its input voltage. In other words, this DC-to-DC converter steps down the voltage from its input to its output. Hence, it…

High-speed photodiode circuit

Photodiode circuit

The high-speed photodiode circuit in Figure 1 uses a low capacitance PIN photodiode (PD), load resistance (RL), and a high-speed operational amplifier (U). In this configuration, the photodiode is reverse biased and used in photoconductive mode. The short circuit current…