Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
Top Reference Designs for Li-Ion Chargers
Designing a Li-Ion Charger? Here’s a collection of valuable industry-grade reference designs shared by leading brands.
Reference Design Of USB BC 1.2 Compliant Charger
The Reference...
Off-Grid Carbon-Neutral Integrated EV Charging Complex
The proposed off-grid integrated system will be very useful when there is a sudden grid failure. It will continue to provide charging for two-...
Reference Design Of USB BC 1.2 Compliant Charger
Do you want to design a battery charger that can accurately monitor the status of your battery pack? Then this reference design can simplify...
Reference Design of Battery Charger With MPPT
Solar energy harvesting is on the rise, but the main drawback of solar energy harvesting is that it can only generate electricity when the...
Multibay charger for 2S configuration
Do you want to charge a 2S battery pack, or want a charger that can be customised to charge up to 32 cells? Then...
Understanding Hydroponics
Life seems to find its ways in highly irrelevant nonliving spaces. Little did the barbaric clans of World War II ever imagine that a...
Aligning Capacitor Selection With The Latest Automotive Demands
Capacitors are common passive elements in all electronic devices, including vehicles. The usage of capacitors in vehicles is expected to increase in the coming...
Strain Gages For Measuring Strain and Stress On A PCB
The main objective of PCB tests is to determine the principal strains in the areas of high strain concentration, especially at the corners of...
Analogue Front Ends For Heart Rate Monitors
Analogue front ends (AFEs) are a set of analogue signal conditioning circuitry that are used to interface sensors to an ADC or a microcontroller....
Smart ADC Selection Can Simplify And Improve Design
There are so many standalone and integrated analogue-to-digital converters available today. Which ADC is best for your application? How important is sampling rate or...
Protection Mechanisms For Batteries And Their Charging Systems
We take batteries for granted and often use them recklessly without taking care of them and their charging systems. This results in their shorter...
Developing Microcontroller Based Product – A Case Study
If you wish to design a microcontroller-based product from scratch, here is a set of guidelines that will enable you to work from customer...
Using GaN Transistors In Power Converters
The basic requirements for power semiconductors are efficiency, reliability, controllability, and cost-effectiveness. Breakthroughs in wide-bandgap semiconductors, especially in gallium nitride (GaN), have enabled devices...
Understanding IoT Platforms: The Basics
IoT is not as simple as it was two decades ago. Due to the huge influx of data, companies felt the need of having...
Streamlining Embedded Design using FPGAs
FPGAs have always been at the forefront of innovation in telecommunication and networking. For a long time, they had been an unexplored realm when...
Emerging Energy Harvesting Techniques For Low-Power No-Battery Solutions
Ultra-low-power techniques are emerging for operation of devices without dependence on batteries. Will such emerging energy harvesting techniques be the key for sustaining low-power...
Fake Chips: Should Engineers Worry?
Fake components are a reality. Also, a hot and thriving business. So hot, these chips could get you fried (or fired?)
The global semiconductor shortage...
Design Aspects Of Low-Power Energy Harvesting Circuits
Energy harvesting devices such as piezoelectric elements and antennas capture ambient energy, but this energy has to be converted to DC for load and...