It has long been known that the simple combination of a depletion-mode MOSFET (and before these were available, a JFET) and a resistor made a simple, serviceable current source such as that seen on ...
Performance specs can be trumped, but elegance persists. Consider the most basic task in industrial control: driving sensors and bridges. It doesn’t matter if you’re dealing with a strain-gauge bridge ...
Figure 1’s negative constant current source has been a textbook application for the LM337 regulator forever (or thereabouts). It precisely maintains a constant output current (Iout) by forcing the ...