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, Mixed Signal, Verilog
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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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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