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Best Embedded Systems pdf Documents Out There
There are thousands of pdf documents related to Embedded Systems available online. In fact, when I do a search in Google for: embedded systems filetype:pdf I get 4,340,000 results! A huge mix ...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Sep 11 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (7) |
Cleaning the Archives Winner Announced + More Incentives for September!
Today I am happy to announce the winner of the Cleaning the Archives draw. But before I do so, I would like to thank everyone who participated. It is actually painful to have only one...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Sep 11 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (2) |
A very unique SIM900 design
The company SIMCOM has produced a variety of GSM/GPRS modules which are quite cheap, easy to use with a standard performance. Amongst these the SIM900 is a very interesting device, it is very similar ... 
posted by Maziar Tasbihi on Aug 11 2012 under circuit design | product design | communications Comments (2) |
Cleaning the Archives!
There are over 65k discussion threads in our forum database. Out of these, I would say about 20% are of no or very little value to visitors of EmbeddedRelated.com. Some are old questions t...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Aug 10 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (16) |
The MIC lineup of Micrel's Low Drop Out (LDO) voltage regulators
Micrel has given out a very impressive line up of voltage regulators which are defined by the MIC series. The MIC29302 device, is capable of delivering 3 amperes into a 5 volt or 3.6 volt load, with m...
posted by Maziar Tasbihi on Aug 10 2012 under power supply | Education | circuit design | low-voltage design Comments (0) |
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) |
How to install Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Xubuntu-desktop and Open JDK-7 on Beagleboard Rev. C2
My aim was to install Ubuntu 12.04, Xubuntu-desktop graphical user interface and Java virtual machine (Open JDK-7) on my beagleboard so that I could run my java application on the monitor connected to... 
posted by Dr. Tayyar GUZEL on Jul 25 2012 under ARM | Linux Comments (4) |
Thoughts on Starting a New Career
I recently completed a 16-year stint at an engineering company. I started there fresh out of college in June 1996. This June I just started a new career as an applications engineer in the area of moto... 
posted by Jason Sachs on Jul 22 2012 under career Comments (7) |
Welcome to my life!
Hi folks! As an electronic engineer the most of my work is about making new designs where a microcontroller is present in 99.9 % of the applications. Since 2003 I am self-employed and do consultants ... 
posted by Morten Dramstad on Jul 18 2012 under ARM | Software Development | Consulting Comments (7) |
A Useful Current Profiling Method
In one of my recent projects, I had to capture the dynamic current profile of a short-range wireless embedded platform for a number of operation scenarios. Due to the dynamic nature of the cur... 
posted by Dr Cagri Tanriover on Jul 2 2012 under circuit design | test equipment | measurement Comments (3) |
A Revenue Sharing Experiment
What would happen if 1000 embedded systems experts would be offered a small chunk of the advertising revenues generated by EmbeddedRelated? We are about to find out. Introducing the Partner Member...
posted by Stephane Boucher on Jun 25 2012 under EmbeddedRelated.com Comments (2) |
First Steps in OrCAD 16 [Capture]
Hello community, I know that in last posts I have been writting about the Software. But what about Hardware? In last months I have been dealing with it, exactly with OrCAD 16. And I will explain ... 
posted by Maykel Alonso on Jun 1 2012 under Hardware Development | circuit design Comments (6) |
10 Software Tools You Should Know
Unless you're designing small analog electronic circuits, it's pretty hard these days to get things done in embedded systems design without the help of computers. I thought I'd share a list of softwar...
posted by Jason Sachs on May 20 2012 under Tools | Software Development Comments (14) |
Have You Ever Seen an Ideal Op-Amp?
Somewhere, along with unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster, lies a small colony of ideal op-amps. Op-amp is short for operational amplifier, and we start our education on them by learning about these my...
posted by Jason Sachs on Apr 30 2012 under circuit design | analog circuits Comments (0) |
Hot Fun in the Silicon: Thermal Testing with Power Semiconductors
Here's a trick that is useful the next time you do thermal testing with your MOSFETs or IGBTs. Thermal testing?! Yes, that's right. It's important to make sure your power transistors don't overheat....
posted by Jason Sachs on Apr 20 2012 under circuit design | power electronics Comments (0) |
Boot sequence for an ARM based embedded system -2
In the last post, we discussed about the startup execution sequence on an ARM based embedded system in broader terms. In this post, we are going to cover the details of a startup code.These details ar...
posted by DM on Apr 6 2012 under ARM | Bootloader Comments (10) |
How to Build a Fixed-Point PI Controller That Just Works: Part II
In Part I we talked about some of the issues around discrete-time proportional-integral (PI) controllers: various forms and whether to use the canonical form for z-transforms (don't do it!) order ...
posted by Jason Sachs on Mar 24 2012 under Tutorials | control systems Comments (1) |
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) |
10 More (Obscure) Circuit Components You Should Know
The interest in my previous article on obscure but useful electronics parts, "10 Circuit Components You Should Know" was encouraging enough that I thought I would write a followup. So here are another...
posted by Jason Sachs on Feb 5 2012 under circuit design Comments (1) |
Lightweight hardware abstraction
Some lessons are tougher than others to master. You would think that hard fought battles would be easier to remember, but sometimes it just does not work that way. Recently, I was asked to... 
posted by Gene Breniman on Jan 31 2012 under Software Development Comments (0) |