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
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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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal, Verilog
Solar Cell Verilog Model for Cadence
A model of the solar cell is built in Verilog-ams. This is needed in order to perform the simulation of the MPPT in a Solar Energy Harvester. …
Cadence, Circuit Design
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. …
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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