Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
How To Avoid Incorrect Use Of AC Fuse In DC Circuit
Using an incorrect fuse in a circuit could have potentially disastrous consequences to people and equipment. In a solar system consisting of multiple strings...
Exploring USB Type-C And USB Power Delivery
Every now and then there is an innovation or advancement that changes the way we operate, the way the world operates. These innovations and...
How To: Thermal Simulation with ANSYS
As electronic systems become more complex and integrated into nearly all the devices and networks we interact with today, the importance of systems reliability...
How To do Interpolated DDS Technique in SDG2000X
1 Preface
In the data sheet for Siglent’s SDG2000X arbitrary waveform generator series, the sampling rate specification (1.2GSa/s) is followed by a note of “4X...
How to Choose the Right Connector
A connector may seem to be a relatively unimportant component when we first look at any device. But design engineers know the importance of...
How to Select between FPGA Vs ASIC for High Volume
The choice of ASIC vs FPGA for volume production is on case-to-case basis. However, what if there were a way to get the best...
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...