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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...

Processors undergoing changes to save power

Power versus performance is an ongoing battle, with the best involving a compromise between the two. High-performance system(s)-on-chip (SoC) designers often struggle to achieve...

Controlling A Linear Actuator with an Arduino

There is a wide application of linear actuator where one wants to move something, but they do not want to physically get involved in...

A Filterless Design For Air Pollution Control

This article takes a look at the causes, effects and control of air pollution in the urban environment. It also introduces easy-to-construct home and...

Smart Coding Techniques And Their Benefits For Electronics

Electronic devices feature a large number of small components, each piece being highly important to their overall functionality and safety. The responsibility for ensuring...

Material and Design Come Together To Forge Reliable PCBs

As we moved towards touchscreen phones with ultra-smart features, we also reduced the lifetime of our mobile phones. A case that comes to mind...

Suggestions for Replacing Film Capacitors with Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors

As the capacity of multi-layer ceramic capacitors increases, the number of cases in which multi-layer ceramic capacitors are being used in areas that were...

IP Cores For FPGA Designs

Intellectual property (IP) cores are standalone modules that can be used in any field programmable gate array (FPGA). These are developed using HDL languages...

Top 20 RFID Project Ideas

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer information from a tag to RFID reader for identification purposes. The...
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