Electronic Design

Current-Sense Amp Offers Four-Quadrant Operation

Many current-sensing ICs are available for applications that require single-quadrant operation, where positive common-mode voltages are present and current flows in only one direction. There are also ...
EDN

Drive the REF Pin of Current-Sense Amps

This application note discusses the REF pin functionality in the indirect current-feedback architecture for instrumentation amplifiers. This article compares the importance of a REF buffer in a ...
Seeking Alpha

New High Accuracy Current Sense Amps Compatible with Both Negative and High Voltages

Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto Japan, June 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROHM Semiconductor today announced they have developed a new lineup of high accuracy current sense amps – the BD1423xFVJ-C and the ...
Electronic Design

Shut Down a Current-Sense Amp by its Supply Pins

Unlike traditional op amps, the high-side current-sense amplifier does not include an internal electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diode from each input pin to its power-supply pin. As a result, ...
EDN

Redefining a New State-of-the-Art in Microampere Current-Sense Amplifiers

Sensing and controlling supply current flow are a fundamental requirement in most all electronic systems from battery-operated, portable equipment to mobile or fixed-platform power management and dc ...
RFID Journal

STMicroelectronics’ Nano-Power Op Amp Boosts Sensing Accuracy, Consumes Negligible Space and Power

The low operating current of STMicroelectronics’ TSU111 nano-power op amp is on par with the leakage current of some low-cost capacitors, and would take over 25 years to discharge a 220mAh CR2032 cell ...