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- Subclass of
- voltage regulator
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- Emerson Network Power 7001232-J200 - STMicroelectronis LM317T-92924.jpg
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- Commons category
- LM317
- discoverer or inventor
- National Semiconductor
- time of discovery or invention
- 1976-00-00
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- Specifications
- Operation
- Voltage regulator
- Current regulator
- Compared to 78xx/79xx
- Second sources from Eastern Bloc
- See also
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thumb|right|LM317 with heat sink
The LM317 is an adjustable positive linear voltage regulator. It was designed by Bob Dobkin in 1976 while he worked at National Semiconductor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LM317” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.