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Pmods – How To Get Started?

Here's a beginner's guide showcasing Pmod compatibility with the popular Arduino Uno platform. We will use a sample project - Pmod NAV - described...

Ruggedise the Hardware: Increase Its Life

McLaren-Honda, manufacturer of premium electric racing cars, recently started using silicon-carbide (SiC) power devices in inverters and on-board chargers, which increased their efficiency by...

Smart Power Plug

We are becoming more conscious for Energy consumption these days and want to know the energy consumed by home appliances in addition to the...

Cost vs Power in Lighting and Some Suitable Solutions

Ever wondered about the size of a salt grain? A single salt grain measures about three mil, which is a thousandth of an inch....

Industrial Transportation: Powering After-Market Electronics and Infrastructure

Industrial transportation electronics is a broad category. It includes after-market additions for automation and entertainment in cars, trucks, trains, planes, and ships. It also...

MQTT – A Practical Guide to IOT Protocol

MQTT is very useful for connections with remote client where a small code footprint is needed, or internet bandwidth is very low. For example,...

Demystifying Thermopile Sensors

Thermopile temperature sensors offer the advantage of non-contact temperature measurement, which has made them more popular than traditional contact-type temperature sensors. These sensors use...

Heat-Blocking Features Imaged by Ultrasound

When power is applied, an integrated circuit begins to heat up within its package. It shortly reaches the operating temperature range for which it...

FPGAs in Data Centres: Opportunities and Challenges (Part 1)

Data centres play a major role in expanding the enterprise computing capabilities. These are a centralised repository for storage, management and dissemination of data...

How to Correctly Design a DIY Smoke Sensor System

Fire sensors are essential elements for detecting fires in homes accurately, quickly and for reliably accomplishing both first-order firefighting and second-order disaster prevention. To...

Iso-Buck Converters: Better than Flyback Converters?

Input voltages below 60V are considered to be safe to touch. Still, there remains a need for isolation in this operating range. After all,...

How to Reduce Size and Weight of Pulse Load Power Supply

There are a number of electronics devices that require clear, pulsed power supply. For instance, power consumption of contemporary high-performance processor devices directly depends...

Ensuring Lower Thermal Dissipation for Higher Efficiency

A renowned manufacturing firm incurred heavy monetary losses when clients returned 5000 units of its LED lights after discovering that the supplied units failed...

Implementing Small, Efficient Power Subsystems for New Li-Ion E-Bikes

The market for electric bicycles (e-bikes), particularly those with lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, is growing worldwide. When designing power systems for e-bike controllers, it’s important...

15 Free Mechatronics Books

Presented here are the 15 best free mechatronics books that will come in handy for robotics and mechatronics enthusiasts. 1. Robotics Author/s: Wikibooks Publisher: Wikibooks, 2012 The author...

Understanding Signal Frequency Spectrum

A signal can be viewed as a composition of a number of sinusoidal signals with varied amplitude, frequency and phase. Distinguishing this composition requires...

Why Run Gate-Level Simulations?

Gate level simulation is used to boost the confidence regarding implementation of a design and can help verify dynamic circuit behaviour, which cannot be...

With the Right Converter, a Single Battery Can Power Your Portable Design

When it comes to low-power portable devices, why not rely on a single battery for the power? I see many such applications that require...
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