It is a common situation in electronics to have a control loop, that is some sort of feedback that drives the input to a system such as a motor or a heater based upon a sensor to measure something ...

A few weeks ago, I installed an automatic water heater switch to my bathroom, but it was a crude device. What I really want to do is design a universal heater driver. That basic idea can be adapted to ...

The process controller’s job is to maintain the process variable at setpoint, regardless of whether the setpoint is constant or has just been changed. The controller contains the “control algorithm,” ...

The LFI3751 is a high performance temperature control instrument. Drive up to ±5 A to TECs or resistive heaters with up to 8 V compliance. Expect stability as good as 0.001°C with thermistors. The ...

What is it that derivative is supposed to help accomplish when tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) loops? Most of us get by most of the time with simply using the P and I components when ...