When we started talking about “passives” in previous articles, we stirred up a hornet’s nest. 1 Several engineers 2 inside Maxim Integrated and in the larger engineering community immediately ...

That’s the list. Those are your passive components. Well, it’s not that easy. Also add in a bunch of types of sensors, because they are still passive. A photoresistor is a sensor but it’s still a ...

A device that does not modify the electrical signals that pass through it. Contrast with active component. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

A device that modifies the signals that pass through it in some manner. For example, an active hub in the network regenerates fading input pulses into new, strong output pulses. In contrast, a passive ...