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2. uC/OS-III The Real-Time Kernel
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... objects, and more. This is actually a really interesting story. When he was a young engineer, the author – Jean Labrosse – was tasked with working on the design of a microprocessor-based ignition control ...

3. SystemC and Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM)
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... to an Engineer? Team? Company? When first adopting SystemC, who are the typical first users? Designers? Verification Engineers? Architects? Others? Are there more standards that are needed to fuel SystemC ...

4. Power Supplies 101 – Safety, Transformers & Primary Windings
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... Circuit Device) units are designed to detect current leakage from Live to Earth, and to disconnect the power or “Trip” if this leakage exceeds a pre-defined value; usually around 30ma. They are not designed ...

5. How to make Printed Circuit Boards.
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... copper has been etched away, the board is washed, dried and then component mounting holes are drilled. So, in overview, that’s what needs to be done, now for the detail.   Step 1. Design the PCB Artwork. ...

6. Maplesoft extends modeling tools
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Maplesoft™ has extended its MapleSim™ modeling platform for faster development time with expanded scope, allowing design engineers to better manage the complexity of engineering modeling and simulation ...

7. The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (Part 4)
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... of about five companies and paid the major part of the costs. Figure 4-5. On the brown-colored drawing board, Konrad Zuse designed the Z1 a second time. Working in his atelier, Konrad recreated thousands ...

8. New eSi-RISC Scalable Soft Processor Cores for ASICs and FPGAs
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... of front-end IC design services. They are really bouncing around with excitement about the fact that they have significantly enhanced their design service capability with the addition of three new, highly ...

9. A LED Ultra-Violet (UV) PCB Exposure Unit
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... light is covering an area of the paper; this is the ideal board height. The prototype used 4 legs made from 2 x 45mm metal spacers each, to give the correct height. The design specified gives a useful ...

10. Mobile Phone Switch – Freely phone home and control an appliance
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There are several designs that the author has seen for controlling appliances remotely via a mobile phone, but they have all involved connecting a microcontroller to the serial port of the phone and either ...

11. Microchip's 44 Pin Demo board - what to do with it once you've flashed the LED's
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... LED’s as I already had a stock of them thanks to a lucky find on Ebay and over an evening designed, etched and soldered a set of boards for everybody to use. Below, you will find basic constructional ...

12. Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
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Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs ed. Jari Nurmi ISBN-13: 978-1402055294 Springer, 2007 Back in the 1980s, during the rise of the RISC era, it seemed that new processor architectures ...

13. Karnaugh Maps (Part 2)
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... may be incompletely specified; that is, the output may be undefined for some of the input combinations. If, for example, the designer knows that certain input combinations will never occur, then the value ...

14. Turn your car into a hybrid
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That may be possible in about three years if a retrofit kit invented by a former IBM engineer pans out in prototype testing. This development is probably a more attainable (and affordable) set-up than ...

15. Formal is more than just alive and well. It is thriving!
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... formal was applied to an 89 million gate design. At the same time, you can turn your attention towards DAC, but look at the user track. There will be a number of presentations there talking about how formal ...

16. Two-stroke engine rebirth?
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EcoMotors OPOC internal combustion engine is an update of two-stroke powerplants. The acronym stands for opposed piston opposed cylinder, which describes a "module" consisting of a pair of pistons moving ...

17. Altium's Latest NanoBoard is Mega-Cool!
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... looks amazingly cool and it comes complete with Altium Designer and extensive royalty-free IP for only US$395 I tell you, as far as I'm concerned, the guys and gals at Altium continue to set the standard ...

18. Gray Codes (Part 2)
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The term Gray code is typically used to refer to a binary sequence in which only a single bit changes value when transitioning between adjacent states. In this, the second installment of our mini-series, ...

19. Positive Versus Negative Logic
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The terms positive logic and negative logic refer to two conventions that dictate the relationship between logical values and the physical voltages used to represent them. Unfortunately, although the core ...

20. Mega-Smackdown at ESC Silicon Valley in April 2010
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... the author of seven books, was past editor of the prestigious industry journal Microprocessor Report, was past Editor-in-Chief of Embedded Systems Design magazine, and is currently publisher of Silicon ...