When first learning about and building electronic circuits, the first things all of us come across are passive components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. These have easily-understandable ...

Engineers generally focus most attention on active components such as transistors, optoelectronic devices, ICs, and the like. In any design, however, the characteristics of passive devices ...

The passive component industry is facing price increases because of upstream metal price fluctuations. Taiwanese ...

Several manufacturers offer op amp-based filter design tools [1-3]. Some tools choose off-the-shelf capacitor values, but others select non-standard ones. The option to alter passive component ...