Circuit calculators

Calculators for everyday electronic circuit design. Work out power consumption and running cost, resistor dividers, LED current limiting resistors, power supply efficiency, op-amp gain and RC filter component values.

Interconversion frequency and wavelength

It converts frequency to wavelength and wavelength to frequency. The higher the dielectric constant, the lower the propagation speed.

Diagram: Interconversion frequency and wavelength
Hz
m
er

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Wavelength
us
1/2 Wavelength us
1/4 Wavelength us
Frequency MHz

RC filter / Cut off frequency

Low-pass filter Frequency at which the voltage becomes -3dB (0.707x)

Diagram: RC filter / Cut off frequency
ohm
F

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Frequency
MHz
Time constraint
us

Resistor voltage dividing

The voltage at the midpoint when the voltage is divided by the resistor is determined. In actual design, the voltage at the midpoint will not be constant due to errors in resistance and voltage.

Diagram: Resistor voltage dividing
V
Ohm
ohm

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Voltage
2.7211V
Max Voltage2.9057 V
min Voltage2.5381 V
Voltage range0.3675 V p-p
Advanced — Voltage tolerance, R1 tolerance, R2 tolerance
±%
±%
±%

Derived values

Division ratio
0.825
R2 / (R1 + R2)
Divider current
57.895 µA
Vcc / (R1 + R2)
Series resistance
57 kΩ
R1 + R2
Divider dissipation
191.05 µW
Vcc² / (R1 + R2)

The output impedance (R1∥R2) is 8.246 kΩ. When driving an ADC sampling input or an op-amp, a higher value contributes more error.

LED lighting circuit design

Design a circuit consisting of a power supply, LEDs, and resistors. The actual components have variations in resistance and Vf, so there will be errors in the LED current.

V
V
ohm

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

LED current
0.638mA
Max LED Current0.896 mA
min LED current0.304 mA
Advanced — Max voltage, min Volatge, Vf Max and 2 more
V
V
V
V
%

Derived values

Resistor dissipation
1.91 mW
Worst case 3.77 mW
LED dissipation
1.28 mW
Vf × I
Total dissipation
3.19 mW
Vcc × I
Voltage across R
3 V
Vcc − Vf

Worst case 3.77 mW. With 50% derating you need a 7.55 mW rating or better, so a 1/16W (1005 / 0402) chip resistor is enough.

Comsumption from current and voltage

Power consumption From current and voltage

mA
V
UNIT
Consumption
mW

Power supply efficiency

Calculates the efficiency of the power supply from the input voltage and current and the output voltage and current.

A
V
A
V
Efficency
%

Inverted amplifier circuit

Inverting amplifier circuit of OP amplifier

Ohm
Ohm
%
%

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Gain
times
Gain
dB

Capacitance for pulse current

Find the capacitance of the capacitor that can store the pulse current.

A
V
s

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Capacitance
uF

Electricity costs from rated consumption

Calculate the electricity rate from the rated power consumption (xxW). 1kW = about 20 yen.

W
h
JPY
Electricity costs per day
0JPY
Electricity costs per month0
Electricity costs per year0 JPY

Convert discharge capacity to Power consumption

This is a calculator to convert the discharge capacity in mAh notation that you often see in batteries to power consumption (xxW). > The reference voltage is often conventionally 3.7V.

mAh
V
Wh
0Wh
W
0W

Resistance voltage drop

Calculate the amount of voltage drop from the resistance and current values.

Ohm
mA

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

Voltage drop
1V

Derived values

Resistor dissipation
1 mW
I² × R
Recommended power rating
2 mW
50% derating

A 1/16W (1005 / 0402) chip resistor is enough.

Synchronous buck: efficiency, ripple, waveforms

Quick calculator for a synchronous buck (step-down) converter. It estimates inductor ripple and capacitor-only output ripple, and plots iL and vout ripple waveforms.

V
V
A
Hz
H
F

SI prefixes accepted (4k7 / 1M / 10m / 220). Upper-case M = mega, lower-case m = milli

ΔIL (p-p)
2.6515A
IL peak3.3258 A
ΔVout (p-p)30.129 mV
Efficiency (est.)99.741 %
Advanced — Rds(on) HS, Rds(on) LS
Ohm
Ohm
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