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Capacitor plague? Inside an HP 8620C sweep oscillator and HP 86245A RF plugin
A teardown of the HP 8620C and HP 86245A by Kerry Wong: I just picked up an HP 8620C sweep oscillator with an HP 86245A 5.9 GHz to 12.4 GHz RF plugin on eBay. This time around though, the unit does...
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Siglent SDG6000X Series Arbitrary waveform generator review, teardown and...
A closer look at the newly released Siglent SDG6000X Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator from The Signal Path: The full teardown of the unit reveals the internal architecture of the instrument, DAC /...
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Hard disk drive head assembly teardown
A look at a head assembly for a hard disk drive. See the full post on Electronupdate blog. Check out the video after the break.
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Silicon die analysis: Inside an op amp with interesting “butterfly” transistors
An excellent in-depth look at theTL084 op amp by Ken Shirriff: Some integrated circuits have very interesting dies under a microscope, like the chip below with designs that look kind of like...
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Electronic key tear down
Tear down of an Electronic key from Electronupdate: In the mid 1980’s a company called Dallas Semiconductor was producing a wide range of small RAMs with integrated battery backup. One of the more...
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Inside a Datum 9300 time code generator
Kerry Wong did a teardown of a Datum 9300 time code generator: IRIG time code generators (not to be confused with the ones used in video and film industry) are often used for clock synchronization...
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Tutorial, experiment and teardown of a 24GHz Doppler radar module
Shahriar posted a detailed analysis of a CDM324 24GHz Doppler radar module from IC Station: Opening the module reveals a series of microwave PCB components and several active devices. A complete...
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Teardown of a Spex HS1000 monochromator controller
Kerry Wong did a teardown of a SPEX HS1000 monochromator/spectrometer controller: Monochromator is one of those things that has always fascinated me. Over the years, I have done quite a few...
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A look inside a Marconi signal generator
A closer look at a Marconi Instruments signal generator @ jaeblog: Recently I got a Marconi Instruments 2019 signal generator, capable of generating signals from 80Khz up to 1040Mhz. It can also...
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Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer
Ken Shirriff writes: We recently started restoring a vintage1 analog computer. Unlike a digital computer that represents numbers with discrete binary values, an analog computer performs computations...
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