How to change the wire colour in Cadence
Change the color of some wires in Cadence Virtuoso can be useful in schematics with a lot of wires. …
Cadence, Circuit Design
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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Integrated Circuits
Types of IC capacitors available to integrate on chips
Pro and Cons of the different Types of IC capacitors that can be introduced in a IC chip. …
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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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Circuit Design, Integrated Circuits
European microelectronics Company Clusters: Hubs of Chip Design
From the hundreds of semiconductors and IC Design companies around Europe, many of them tend to be located together or very near.
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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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Cadence, Circuit Design
Binary to Thermometer decoder in Cadence
A binary-to-thermometer decoder digital block is created in Cadence. The VHDL code example transforms an 8-bit vector into 256 thermometer signals.
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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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