Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
How To Select Potentiometric Position Sensor
Position sensors are considered to be a large family with many different types of sensors, however each sensor in this family is unique with...
Top 5 Factors That Will Help You Design Better
Expertise in the incorporation of a reasonable number of distinct skills and the ability to manage multiple design constraints are the two main things...
How to Ensure High Reliability in PCBs for Space Use
There is a high level of complexity involved whilst manufacturing PCBs, especially boards destined for military or aeronautical applications like spacecraft. There are certain...
An Introduction to Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems
We all use electronic systems in our day-to-day life. Many times we have seen that when systems fail, things get difficult. Consequences can be...
What You Ought to Know About Designing Memory into Embedded Systems
The era of data and information explosion is upon us. A 10.2cm (4-inch) iPhone today has 128GB of storage, which is far more storage...
Golden Rules for Designing Wearables
Technology-aided behaviour analysis and modification has been there since four years now. However, earlier devices had the tendency to be more about delivering technology...
Basic User Interface Design for Electronics Engineers
An engineer studies electronics at the bachelor level, and what he or she learns are the fundamentals of electronics and how to use these...
FPGA Prototyping Techniques
Field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping, commonly referred to as FPGA based prototyping, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) prototyping or system on chip (SoC) prototyping,...
Basic Guide to Radio-Controlled Boat Modelling
Whether you crave action or relaxation, you will relish radio-controlled (RC) boating because there is nothing quite as comforting as gliding your own RC...
The Making of a Radio-Controlled Plane
If you are planning to make your own multi-rotor from scratch at home, note that choosing the right electronic speed control (ESC) for your...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Modern Sensors
Various types of sensors are encountered everywhere by us every day. Modern sensors need not be new types of sensors based on new technologies,...
Smart Way To Build Smart Street Light Solutions
A significant portion of the national electricity production goes to street lighting. The existing street lighting solution models in different parts of the world...
Selecting The Right Operating System for Your Next Embedded Design
From robots, cars, home appliances to calculators, thermostats, ATMs and mobile phones, embedded systems are everywhere. And at the heart of almost every embedded...
Implementing Capacitive-Touch Interfaces in Low-Cost LED Lighting Designs
In recent months, there has been a move to integrate capacitive-touch and capacitive-proximity user interfaces (UIs) into lighting applications. The simplicity of the UI,...
An Introduction to Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
Delivery of services like telephony, voice-over-IP, video streaming, telemedicine, broadcasting of TV programmes, high-speed file sharing, online banking, online video gaming, online education and...
Network Protocols and Smart Sensors: An Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks (Part 2 of 2)
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A wireless sensor network is a communication system which senses and gathers information from a certain area and sends it to where...
Handling 20nm Design Challenges
1. Complex double-patterning lithography
Complex double-patterning lithography in 20nm process requires rule-aware placement and routing in order to ensure the ability to colour mask correctly...
How to Reduce Power Consumption in Battery-Powered Devices
Over the last few years, we saw numerous new battery technologies being proposed by different research institutes. There was news of flexible Li-ion batteries...