Without problems and directly at connecting a device. How? With a new Euroclamp MPF03 terminal block with integrated fuse holder. Nowadays, when “almost everything” works on electricity we can see still more devices connected to mains line. That´s why it often happens, that many small-power devices are connected to one (circuit breaker fused) line. To […]
With a little practice, you can make excellent double-sided PCBs by combining a laser cutter with chemical etching. The basic idea is: the laser cutter blasts away spray painted etch resist, then chemicals eat away the exposed copper. Once the copper is gone, the underlying board can be cut again with the laser to make
A processor is a collection of logic circuits that is designed to efficiently process data. There are a number of processors – processor designs are created for specialised tasks, these include the Central Processing Units (CPU), Graphics Processing Units (GPU), Physics Processing Units (PPU) or Digital Signal Processors. An array or vector processor solves computational
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The PIC16F170X/171X family features Core Independent Peripherals, such as the Configurable Logic Cell (CLC), Complementary Output Generator (COG) and Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO). These “self-sustaining” peripherals take 8-bit PIC® MCU performance to a new level, as they are designed to handle tasks with no code or supervision from the CPU to maintain operation. As a
I recently received an external USB battery as a promotional gift (see image below). While I always thought of these as a superfluous gimmick, I realized that these devices could be quite useful as mobile power source for various projects. After all, dealing with lithium ion batteries in your own projects can be dangerous and
Features 2.7V to 42V Input Voltage Range 1.2A, 65V Internal DMOS Power Switch Low Quiescent Current: 100μA in Sleep Mode 350μA in Active Mode Boundary Mode Operation at Heavy Load Low-Ripple Burst Mode® Operation at Light Load Minimum Load <0.5% (Typ) of Full Output VOUT Set with a Single External Resistor No Transformer Third Winding
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Have you been using float or double variables to perform mathematical operations on embedded systems without a Floating-Point Unit (FPU)? You are doing it wrong! That’s incredibly inefficient. Use fixed-point representation instead. An FPU is an hardware block specially designed to carry on arithmetic operations on floating point numbers. Even though the C/C++ code may work without an
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MikroElektronika, a Belgrade, Serbia-based company is well-known for producing quality software and hardware development tools for a wide range of microcontroller families, including PIC, AVR, and ARM processors. Their mikroC Pro for PIC has always been my favorite PIC compiler, and has been extensively used in my PIC tutorials and projects published on this website,
Connectors of the PV, SV and SH series are available in a huge amount of versions and sizes, that´s why you´ll certainly find here a suitable type for you. A very frequent requirement for a simple and reliable connection of wires to a PCB is actual about as long as the world knows plated copper
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Plastic- or a metal connector? Majority of designers will probably place on the first place in a virtual “quality chart” a connector with a metal body. It´s often true, but it needn´t be always so. Apart from the fact, that a metal connector is usually more expensive, often – mainly in a corrosive environment a
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