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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. released two new high-voltage, single- and dual-supply single-pole double-throw (SPDT) analog switches. The DG469 and DG470 devices are identical, except the DG470 provides an enable pin, which puts all of the switches in a high-impedance state, maintaining a “safe state” at power up and preventing accidental signal or power shorts.

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Descartes

This is a Windows application for drawing graphs of mathematical functions. See screenshots below for an idea of what it can do. You do not choose from a limited set of offered functions - an expression evaluator can deal with an extremely wide range of expressions from simple polynomials, trigonometric, hyperbolic, exponential terms, differentials and integrals, and sums and products of series.

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