Back in the ENIAC era, computers were more analog in nature and used very few digital ICs. Today an average Joe’s computer works with multiple voltage levels, people who had seen the SMPS of a CPU would have noticed that your computer requires ±12V, +5V and +3.3V to operate. These voltage levels are very important for a computer; a specific voltage determines the state of…
When current passes through a conductor it creates electromagnetic fields and almost all electronic devices like TVs, washing machines, induction stove, traffic lights, mobile phones, ATMs and laptops etc., will emit the electromagnetic fields. Fossil fueled vehicles also suffer from Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) - The ignition system, starter motor and switches cause…
Internet of Things (IOT) is the technology that would change the future of how things would work and that we have seen in our previous IoT based Projects. The main aim of IOT is to connect devices and make things easier for humans to control. Now, with an increase in production and the use of IOT devices, the experts have predicted that the globe will have around 75 Billion…
A new JRC science-for-policy report by the European Commission's science and knowledge service projects that the prices of lithium ion batteries will collapse significantly by 50% in 2030 and further decline by 75% in 2040. This will impose relentless pricing pressure on manufacturers, pushing them to find new ways to mitigate manufacturing costs, including raw material…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that describes millions of devices equipped with sensors and connected over the internet. IoT revolution has created a lifestyle revolution that provides convenience. It is because of IoT that we have smart cities, wearable technology, driverless cars, smart home appliances, smart medical devices, among many other intelligent devices.…
Many industries are able to fashion their products to align with what is the Industrial Revolution 4.0. One of the key players of this shift is the Internet of Things sector that is growing at dizzying heights even as we speak. However, the IoT sector has insurmountable data and network capacity that is proving to be a tad bit too complex for conventional connections. The…
Today's smartphones' fingerprint sensor in display technology represents the latest evolution in mobile fingerprint security, offering in screen fingerprint sensor capabilities that were once limited to flagship devices. As a result, these sensors are primarily used for smartphone security these days.
The cutthroat competition in the…
As the name suggests, Clipper circuit is used to “clip” a portion of input signal without distorting the remaining part of the waveform. It is a wave shaping circuit. This can be very useful in the circuits where the input signal attains a higher value of voltage than the expected one. These circuits can be implemented in various ways according to the configuration or…
Thinking about a Low Power Long Range IoT solution??! Then probably you would have heard about the wireless radio technology called LoRa. LoRa allows your devices to communicate to long distance without using much power, making it suitable for battery operated remote devices like GPS Tracker, Asset Monitoring etc. With more designers getting into the IoT bandwagon the…
An average household microwave oven operating at 110/220V AC can produce upto 2800V inside it, which is dangerously lethal. Besides that it also has a lower level AC voltage around 3.5V to light up the filament and a regulated DC voltage like 5V/3.3V for the digital electronics part like the display or timers to operate. Have you ever wondered…
Braking is one of the important aspects of a vehicle. The mechanical braking system which we use in our vehicles has a big drawback of wasting the kinetic energy of the vehicle as heat. This brings down the overall efficiency of the vehicle by affecting the fuel economy. In the urban drive cycle, we tend to start and stop the vehicle more often when compared to highway drive…
With the electronics buzz towards IoT, Machine to Machine Communication and Connected devices, design engineers are on constant hunt to find a sublime mode of communication technique to exchange information between two electronics device. While there are already a lot of options to select from like BLE, NFC, RFID, LoRa, Sigfox etc, a company called Chirp has developed an SDK…
