Hackaday

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
Electronics Weekly

Transistor testing costs are a ‘serious’ problem

The cost of testing a transistor will approach and may exceed the cost of manufacturing it, Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at the University of Southampton, has warned. Al-Hashimi, who is at the ...
EDN

How To Choose The Right Transistor (PNP or NPN)

The two types of standard transistors are PNP and NPN which differs in circuit symbols. The layers of semiconductor material used to make the transistor are denoted by the letters. To keep a straight ...
Electronic Design

System-level test contends with billions of untested transistors

Why might you need semiconductor system-level test (SLT)? As Karthik Ranganathan, director for semiconductor solutions at Astronics Test Systems, points out, if you test a 22-nm, ...