An interface defines clear boundaries and communication/interconnection between systems.
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What is a “santa cruz interface”, who created it? [closed]
There is HSMC that I have seen, but Santa Cruz just looks like regular pin header. What is so special about it? And why is the word Santa part of the name?
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What are different media for uC (microcontroller) to store data that shall be input to a PC later [closed]
Well we can have a uC Embedded device that will use a chip to store data somewhere on the PCB. Than it can have firmware that will enable one to gain access to this data by means of a USB connection ...
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Digital RGB interface EMI filtering
Consider the following system:
where:
The motherboard contains a LCD controller (SSD1963 from Solomon Systech) and other components (application processor, solenoid drivers, power supplies, etc.)
...
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Using standalone smartphone camera
Is there any possibility to use smartphone camera modules without their smartphone?
those modules are relativity cheap and provide good results,
can someone explain how to do it?
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what are the things to keep in mind when interfacing two digital devices?
what are the things to keep in mind when interfacing two digital devices, e.g FPGA with a dual shock controller or CPLD with a PS/2 Mouse, Microcontroller with an FPGA, FPGA with an external RAM.
One ...
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Communication between PTZ camera and an embedded board
I have a PTZ camera which has a serial Communication Port RS-232C and I want to connect it to a single core embedded system which has an Ethenet and USB.
How can I make the connection between the PTZ ...
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How to interface a com port on cash register? [closed]
I am trying to interface a se-52000 cash register. The com2 port is free and it is usually used with a barcode scanner. I want to sent data(something like barcode scanner emulation data) from a ...
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Processor - L1 Data cache interface
Sorry if the following looks like a very specialized (or programming) question, but I'm hoping there are people on this forum who have done VHDL/Verilog modeling, and might be able to answer:
I'm ...
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Arduino printer emulation
I'm working on a project in which an arduino should emulate a thermal printer.
I'm currently using an Arduino UNO R3 board with ATmega16U2 controller to handle the communication between USB and the ...
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Interesting 100Mbit Ethernet failure
I have a PCB designed using both 10Mbit and 100Mbit Ethernet, I have produced 100 boards 97% of which work perfectly (both 100Mbit and 10Mbit). On 3% of my boards the 10Mbit operates all the time, but ...
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1answer
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Connection of EZ430-RF2500 development tool with PIC18f877
I want to conect the ez430-rf2500 development tool with PIC16f877 throught uart, do I have to use a max232 chip in order to be able to communicate between those two MCUs or it can be done without it.
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Verilog interfacing with C#
Right now, I am taking a course on Verilog HDL, however, our instructor gave us a machine problem wherein we are required to implement a program using verilog while having C# as our main gui. The ...
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Handling the output of an AD8495
I am building a circuit with two AD8495 thermocouple amplifiers. I chose them because they are simple to get and quite cheap - there's basically no other reason. Now I need to create an interface ...
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Serial Port (DB9) signals
Just about every time I use a serial port for anything, I only use 3 pins of the usual 9-pin connector (DB9): Tx, Rx, and GND. And when I wire up my microcontroller projects to these ports, I just ...
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1answer
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GPRS modem gets struck/hangs up when “AT” is entered
I started working on a U-blox LEON-G100 gprs modem connected to the PC terminal through UART. Whatever character I enter into the terminal gets echoed back except "AT". When I enter "AT", the modem ...
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Simple and inexpensive way to read 2GB flash?
For reading writing NAND flash chips with less than 2GB one could use a commercial XD card reader. Unfortunately XD cards only have 8 I/O pins.
Some 2GB (bank size) flash chips have 16 I/O pins. Is ...
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How to interface a digital scale strain gauge weight sensor with a microcontroller [closed]
It is a Load Sensor(SEN-1638) Which can be used to Measure upto 110 Pounds
So,How To Interface the above sensor to a Microcontroller Component?
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where can I buy standalone smartphone camera modules?
Question 1: I'm planning on hacking together a little proof-of-concept device using a pared-down Google Nexus 7 tablet as the base. I'd like to connect a higher resolution camera where the current ...
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1answer
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switch small DC voltage with 90v. 30hz AC signal
I need to momentarily activate an approx. 50mA @ 24V DC load, using a 90V, 30hz AC signal line. Whatever method is used, it needs to have the smallest current draw from the signal line possible.
I ...
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1answer
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Interfacing a PIC microcontroller to different logic levels
I'm planning on interfacing a PIC microcontroller to two devices which operate on two different logic levels and I'm wondering what the best way of approaching this is. I'm rather inexperienced in ...
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2answers
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Design advice: Radar interface
I am looking for design advice with a one-off Radar interface:
A RF video signal (Radar signal envelope) has to be sampled at 40 MHz
X datapoints in succession
triggered at 820 Hz
transfer of data ...
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I am looking for a way to interface a phone landline with my computer's sound card in both directions [closed]
My approaches so far:
This thread seems to go nowhere. It was trying to build the circuitry myself, but people have problems recommending suitable circuits. We keep on fiddling about with ...
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1answer
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LF398 Sample and Hold Circuit
I'm having a problem designing a circuit to interface an LF398. On it's data sheet it says that it needs +5 and -5 volts, but I only have +5.
My questions are:
Can I put V+ on 5V and V- on ground ...
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Designing with AC'97 - why does it not have a (FIFO) buffer?
The AC'97 codec seems to dominate the world of digital audio I/O but, what is weird is that it has neither interrupts nor buffers so that it is difficult to interface with a controller, which has ...
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Why not use a ferrite bead around an RS-232 cable?
This is from the instruction manual of a printer:
As you can see, one is not supposed to wrap the supplied bead around the serial cable. What is the reason for this?
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What is this type of digits-only LCD called?
I've seen this type of LCD many times in weigh scales, calculators, gauges, micrometers, etc. I know it's a fairly traditional display but I really like its compactness, simplicity, and maybe it even ...
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1answer
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Interfacing Gyro with arduino
I'm quite new to the world of electronics, and so I need some newbee-help.
I've got an Arduino uno, and I've recently bought a LPR550AL pitch & roll gyro.
(if it helps detailed info can be found ...
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adc-fpga interface guidelines for vhdl
I want to interface 3 separate ADS8548 ADC with XC3S200AN fpga. The fpga masters the control lines of the ADCs and it also acquires the digital data from the ADCs through parallel bus.
I will have ...
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1answer
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Interface telephone handset
I have an immediate need (for a stage play) to take the audio from the microphone of a telephone handset and feed it to a Shure M67 audio mixer, familiar to anyone who's been in radio for a while ...
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3answers
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ARM Programming interface and tool chain
I have acquired a RM48L952 that is an ARM Cortex R4F from TI and I would like to start learning ARM development with this chip. My question is can I use any JTAG programmer to program it? Something ...
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1answer
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Muxed pin of Analog To Digital Converter,ADS8548 - Interface Issue
I am trying to interface TI's ADS8548 ADC with Xilinx XC3S700AN FPGA to get the coordinates from an accelerometer.
When I went trough the spec of the ADC, I found that pin20 is a muxed pin for ...
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Interfacing HEDS 9700 optical encoder with AVR atmega32
I'm trying to interface an HEDS 9700 optical encoder using an HCTL-2020 IC (or anything else) with my Atmega ( atmega128, atmega32, atmega16, atmega8 or any AVR-family based microcontroller, don't ...
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Interfacing Lego Mindstorm with ultrasonic transducers and actuators
I'm very new to electronics. I'm working on my school science project and am having difficulties to turn theory into praxis. For my science project, I'm aiming to construct a device that will enable ...
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SMBUS protocol supported by windows [closed]
I need the SMBus command protocol supported by windows(XP and 7) which i need to compare with the full set of SMBus protocol.
Please help me
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PCI obsolescence - IEEE1284 (EPP,ECP,LPT) printer port ASIC
I have a product in volume manufacture where the embedded CPU is now obsolete.
I have to replace that CPU with a lower cost alternative. For political (and practical) reasons I don't have a choice ...
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I2C - RS232 controller
anyone have reccomendations for an IC that can be used to access a device with an RS-232 interface from an I2C bus?
Id rather have something that doesnt need programming as I already have a uC master ...
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How to build a motherboard [closed]
I am building my own laptop, and found out that the motherboard for a laptop has to be designed based on the case. So, I am designing my own motherboard. The thing is, I have no idea how a ...
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How to make cards for POS? [closed]
My project is one similar to an automated dispensing system, and I want to use custom made cards which can be written to (by the PC) and read (by the machine). However I don't even know what this card ...
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ZCC DI 232 digital compass interfacing [closed]
Has anyone worked with the digital compass ZCC-D-I-232 ??
I bought one and am stuck up with its calibration!
No response whatsoever from the compass.
There is no manual for the product.
A ...
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1answer
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Electric flow rate (Amper) on the com-port
I have sending data through com-port from PC.
Is there a constant rate of flow of electric charge (Ampere) when the com-port is used while sending or not sending data through it? Does the Ampere on ...
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2answers
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connecting avr microcontroller to the internet
I'd like to connect my AVR microcontroller to the Internet.
I tried the enc28j60 ethernet controller, but I faced some problems with it. Besides I've read a lot about it and found it easy to be used ...
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1answer
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Weight measurement using load cell and process indicator
I need to measure 0-200kg using a Baumer SAS PA418 process indicator. The manual is in french, I tried to use google translate but understand very little. A load cell is attached with the indicator ...
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2answers
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Uploading Program to Arduino Using FTDI Cable or Programmer
I would like detailed instructions on how to go about uploading a program onto an Arduino using an FTDI cable/programmer. I'm just not quite sure what parts to order and how to go about doing it.
...
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1answer
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BNC camera computer interface
I have some security cameras who's only interface is a BNC connector and I want to use them to do video processing. I want to find a simple way to interface a BNC camera with my computer so that I can ...
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Serial data transfer from Omega DP80 legacy hardware to computer
Can anyone provide me with some guidance on setting up a legacy serial connection on an Omega (brand) thermocouple display? I would like to use the serial data interface (Omega DP80-Ser) to reliably ...
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How to work with FTDI V2DIP1-48?
Could someone please direct me how to interface with this chip? I am a total newbie in electronics, and after buying this chip, well, i have absolutely no idea how to connect it.
The chip has an USB ...
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Why is RS-422 interface interference insensitive?
I am trying to understand differences between RS-232 & RS-485. I just don't grasp what is the core principle behind RS-422 inteference resistance? Is it number of wires (4 instead of 3)? Is it ...
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I2C 5 <-> 3.3V Interface Chip
Does the classical 5V <--> 3.3V bidirectional MOSFET interfacing solution exist as a DIP package? Or is the commopn way to place discrete MOSFETs in your circuit? In that case, what are some common ...
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Voltage Level Shifting
I know there are similar questions on the site, but I wanted to ask it from a somewhat different perspective.
I've got a 5V device (Device A) that can operate at 3.3V.
I've got a 3.3V device ...
