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Chebyshev Approximation and How It Can Help You Save Money, Win Friends, and Influence People
Well... maybe that's a stretch. I don't think I can recommend anything to help you win friends. Not my forte. But I am going to try to convince you why you should know about Chebyshev approximation, ...
posted by Jason Sachs on Sep 30 2012 under Software Development | applied math Comments (2) |
Analog-to-Digital Confusion: Pitfalls of Driving an ADC
Imagine the following scenario:You're a successful engineer (sounds nice, doesn't it!) working on a project with three or four circuit boards. More than even you can handle, so you give one of...
posted by Jason Sachs on Nov 19 2011 under circuit design | ADC | analog inputs Comments (2) |
Two jobs
For those of you following closely embeddedrelated and the other related sites, you might have noticed that I have been less active for the last couple of months, and I will use this blog post to expl... 
posted by Stephane Boucher on Dec 5 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (23) |
Galvanic etching
One of the reasons I'm tinkering with embedded control is that I'd like to make mechanical devices move, and move with a certain intelligence (i.e. informed by sensors, or following a prescribed progr... 
posted by Alex Bandar on Sep 28 2007 under galvanic etching | steampunk | power supply Comments (6) |
VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench
In an earlier article I walked through the VHDL coding of a simple design. In this article I will continue the process and create a test bench module to test the earlier design. The Xilinx ISE environ... 
posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 30 2007 under VHDL programming | Tutorials Comments (3) |
Behold, the New Comments System!
I have just finished implementing a new system for commenting the blogs. It uses Ajax extensively, so the page won't reload if you post a comment. And it is a 'threaded' system, which mean...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Sep 18 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (29) |
VHDL tutorial
(Follow up articles: VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench , VHDL tutorial - combining clocked and sequential logic , VHDL tutorial - Creating a hierarchical design ) &nbs...
posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 4 2007 under VHDL programming Comments (7) |
VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 3 - VHDL testbench
In part 1 (http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/85.php) of this series we focused on the hardware design, including some of the VHDL definitions of the I/O characteristics of the CPLD part. ...
posted by Gene Breniman on Jun 25 2011 under VHDL programming | Hardware Development | Tutorials Comments (4) |
Stairway to Thévenin
This article was inspired by a recent post on reddit asking for help on Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits. (With apologies to Mr. Thévenin, the rest of the e's that follow will re...
posted by Jason Sachs on Dec 31 2011 under circuit design | analog circuits Comments (0) |
C++ on microcontrollers 2 - LPCXpresso, LPC-link, Code Sourcery, lpc21isp, linkerscript, LPC1114 startup
previous parts: 1 This blog series is about the use of C++ for modern microcontrollers. My plan is to show the gradual development of a basic I/O library. I will introduce the object-or... 
posted by Wouter van Ooijen on Oct 24 2011 under ARM | Education | Tutorials Comments (4) |
How to Build a Fixed-Point PI Controller That Just Works: Part I
This two-part article explains five tips to make a fixed-point PI controller work well. I am not going to talk about loop tuning -- there are hundreds of articles and books about that; any control-sys...
posted by Jason Sachs on Feb 26 2012 under Tutorials | control systems Comments (3) |
Will work for tools!
I have always believed that tools are necessary to the creative process. This is something I learned early in life and it's a lesson that has stuck with me to this day. When I was 7 years old, I made...
posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 23 2007 under Tools Comments (2) |
Wiki Search is here
Finally Wiki Search Engine is up an running. Not sure if Wiki can pose any threat to the popularity of Google Search. But let us hope that we will get to see many new search features in near future. B... 
posted by Kunal Singh on Jan 8 2008 under Business Comments (0) |
Heading towards a More Flat World
As India (and some parts of China) continue to grow as a cost-effective destination for software development, there is some more interesting news coming from another South Asian country. Vietnam has p...
posted by Kunal Singh on Feb 29 2008 under Technology | Business | Products Comments (0) |
Nokia in Soup Again?
After suffering a big blow its image due to faulty "BL-5C Batteries", Nokia seems to have landed in another trouble. Company's decision to shutdown its manufacturing plant in Germany, has sp...
posted by Kunal Singh on Feb 29 2008 under Business | Products | Miscellaneous Comments (1) |
Partner Program Update
In my last blog post, I introduced the revenue sharing experiment. So far, tens of highly skilled embedded systems experts have joined the program, and I have created a forum for those partner...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Aug 8 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (0) |
New Reward Program for Bloggers
When I launched the blogs section a couple of years ago, several individuals showed interest in blogging on the site, but most of the bloggers lost interest after a few posts (which I totally unders...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Apr 5 2011 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (1) |
First Rewards Paid!
The new reward program for bloggers is now active and the first rewards have just been paid. For the month of April, Gene Breniman received a total of $125: $100 for VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Tes...
posted by Stephane Boucher on May 5 2011 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (0) |
Byte and Switch (Part 2)
In part 1 we talked about the use of a MOSFET for a power switch. Here's a different circuit that also uses a MOSFET, this time as a switch for signals: We have a thermistor Rth that is located som...
posted by Jason Sachs on May 7 2011 under Tutorials | circuit design | low-voltage design | thermistor Comments (4) |
Which MOSFET topology?
A recent electronics.StackExchange question brings up a good topic for discussion. Let's say you have a power supply and a 2-wire load you want to be able to switch on and off from the power supply us...
posted by Jason Sachs on Sep 1 2011 under Tutorials | circuit design | power electronics Comments (0) |