Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
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...
Behind Every Successful Product There Is A Well-Designed Architecture
In his series of articles for hardware startups, in this edition the author covers the importance of hardware architecture design and how not doing...
Ignored Aspects Of SMPS Design That Need Immediate Attention
When it comes to designing SMPS for electronic devices, big or small, wattages do affect as the components, layout, and topology change. As a...
The Role Of IoT & AI In Battery Management Of Electric Vehicles
A good battery gives an electric vehicle the power to traverse long distances without any tension. But when upgraded with next-gen technology such as...
Electronic Circuits Have To Be Designed – Not Assembled
Now-a-days, designers tend to use off-the-shelf designs and software available on the Internet or from the vendors to design products requisitioned by their clients....
Introduction To CNTFET Technology For Reducing Transistor Count And Power Requirement Of ICs
This article introduces a mixed logic design method that uses CNTFET technology combining the basic transmission gate logic, the pass transistor dual-value logic, and...
A Peep Into The Lesser-Known World Of FPGAs & ASICs
FPGAs and ASICs are widely used nowadays, especially in electronics equipment such as laptops, smartphones, and television sets. The components have their strengths and...
Understanding Bluetooth Internet Gateways For IoT Solutions
Based on some work carried out by the Bluetooth SIG relating to the integration of Bluetooth devices with the Internet and IoT architecture, here...
Designing With Protection Against EMC, EMI And ESD
The effects of electrostatic discharge and interference is often ignored by designers, which results in their rejection, especially in global markets. The designers need...