Lab Characterization of the Panasonic AM-1456
Here the solar cell Panasonic AM-1456 is going to be tested in the lab. These measurements were taken in terms of choosing a solar cell for energy harvesting. …
Electronics, Energy Harvesting
Electronics
Electronics, Energy Harvesting
Lab Characterization of the Photodiode SFH206
The PiN photodiode SFH206 from the vendor Osram was tested and characterised in the lab to obtain the power curve.
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Electronics, Energy Harvesting
Lab Characterization of the Solar Cell IXYS KXOB22
Here the solar cell IXYS KXOB22 -04X3F is going to be tested in the lab. These solar cell were chosen in a project for solar energy harvesting. …
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FPGA, Mixed Signal, VHDL
The fastest FPGA PWM Signal with Zybo and Vivado (VHDL)
How to generate a high-frequency PWM signal with an FPGA (Zybo) writing a custom IP in Vivado. …
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Analog, Electronics
Active Filters: 2nd order Tschebychev Bandpass
A second order active bandpass filter by cascading two staggered tuned first order bandpass filters is shown, built and tested. …
Electronics
How to sniff a BLE communication and decode it: Reverse Engineering
Intercept Bluetooth communication of smart gadgets (for example fitness devices) is a nice idea to have cheap BT sensor nodes. I will explain how to sniff and decode your Bluetooth Low Energy Data from your sensors. …
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Electronics
Autocorrelation and Crosscorrelation calculation in LabView
A LabView sketch was used to simulate the stochastic signals and evaluate the functionality of the autocorrelation and cross-correlation function. Also the spectral power density was calculated.
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FPGA, Verilog, VHDL
How to create a testbench in Vivado to learn Verilog
How to start a new Vivado project to create a testbench for programming with Verilog or VHDL languages.
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Electronics
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: The new eyes and hands of the scientists
Introduction to the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), starting with its discovery, basic theory, principles of functionality and operation modes. …
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Arduino, Electronics
How to connect eHealth via Bluetooth with Python to Computer or Raspberry PI
I explain how to connect the eHealth sensor board from Cooking Hacks via Bluetooth to a Linux-based PC (or Raspberry Pi) to stream data and plot it on the computer with the bluePy library. …
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FPGA, Verilog, VHDL
Sinus wave generator with Verilog and Vivado
This Verilog code generates a sinus wave in FPGAs. It is done with a lookup-table and we will cover different modes with variable and fixed frequency.
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FPGA, Verilog, VHDL
Power-On Reset implementation for FPGA in Verilog and VHDL
A power-on reset for an FPGA is implemented in Verilog and VHDL languages. …
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