Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Logan is an experienced writer, producer, and editorial leader. As a journalist, he ...

What can you do if your circuit repair diagnosis indicates an open circuit within an integrated circuit (IC)? Your IC got too hot and internal wiring has come loose. You could replace the IC, sure.

TDA2030 is a monolithic integrated circuit in Pentawatt package, intended for use as a low frequency class AB amplifier. It provides 14W output power (d = 0.5%) at 14V/4Ω at ± 14V or 28V, the ...

This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst making repairs to laptop ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...