Questions tagged [optimization]
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Frequency-dependent behavior of a resistor in time domain simulation
I know for a fact that to take into account frequency-dependent behavior in time domain simulation, equivalent electrical networks that reproduce the same frequency behavior are used, as it happens, ...
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How to hash map known values to smaller data width?
Story:
I have an input bus of 17b = 131 072 values. An output bus of 10b = 1024 values.
Among all the 131 072, only 20 000 values are used and known in advance.
I'd like to map all those 20 000 values ...
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Lattice Diamond — How to identify which parts of design take most of FPGA resources?
I have a Lattice FPGA-targeted design which already takes approximately 95% of the SLICEs available on the device; pretty close to the chip capacity. Unfortunately, I need to add some more logic to it,...
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.step and .list param function for real components in LTSpice
I know that LTSpice can compute simulation in .step and .list param functions. However, those lists are ideal (not real).
Is there a means to use the .step and .list param function for real components ...
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TVC PID Controller how to adjust angle and thrust?
Hi there I wanted to simulate a rocket landing like for example the falcon 9. I was able to write myself an simulation in which on every loop turn I adjust the angle and thrust. Now this is for school ...
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Tips for optimizing through-hole soldering
I make and sell low voltage, mostly digital, retrocomputing expansion boards as a hobby/hustle. I use all through-hole components partly because of the retro aesthetic and partly because I find ...
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C++ AVR big code size & excess unused symbols in build file
I'm developing the program for the AVR microcontroller in C++.
I have created a class that contains 8 methods(with constructors) but used only 3.
Class code:
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C++ AVR microcontroller optimization problem
I'm faced with a weird problem. I'm developing a program for AVR.
Microcontroller ATtiny85.
Frequency 1 MHz.
Programmer ...
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How to safely connect unused opamp stable for gain of +2
Please refer to AD828 or any other bipolar op-amp not unity gain stable.
Which of the two below cases is better? Any other suggestion?
Simulation suggests the second, but I need to understand if the ...
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Singular interval condition for Multi input in Optimal control
The definition of singulr interval is shown in Figure.
I've struggled with this problem.
I think the solution of this prob
is "because if the E_j matrix is not singular, it means the System is ...
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Need help understanding notation in mathematical optimization equation?
I have been reading the research paper ["Distributed Joint Power, Association and Flight Control for Massive-MIMO self-Organizing Flying Drones"][1](Paper is from IEEE so it might be stuck behind a ...
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Optimization kills the switch statement that I need to use in a function
Optimization kills the switch statement that I need to use in a function
Hi all, how are you?. I'm doing a project with a STM32F103C6 (it has 32KB flash) and I had to activate optimization options to ...
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Optimizing Multilevel circuit Logic with SDCs
I am reading "Principles of Modern Digital Design" on chapter 3.10, but I am confused on a certain part. It says that you can reduce multilvel circuit logic using SDCs.
Suppose you have the ...
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Best way to optimize verilog cpu?
I wrote a riscv core in verilog which works fine, but is slow. It can't go faster than 50mhz when synthesizing in Xilinx ise for spartan 6. I have however seen similar cores be able to go to 100mhz or ...
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VHDL: Kan sequence of if/else be optimized?
I am new to VHDL and I try to find all places where I can replace if/else statements with cases of inlined OR/AND operations to get more things executed in parallel instead of sequence.
Now I have ...
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Find higher voltage among several voltages without MCU or ADC
I have 13 sensors with voltage outputs, each sensor can provide a voltage up to 3.3 volt, so I have 13 voltage lines. My goal is to somehow sort these voltages without using any MCU or ADC chip for ...
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Formally determining the minimum number of poles needed to realize some suggested switching arrangement
Many times, when designing passive switching circuits, one has the following engineering problem:
We know we want to have some number of switches, each with some number of throws.
For each possible ...
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Finding coefficients for a PID controller that minimize the integral of the squared error (ISE)
The problem
The problem is to find the coefficients for the P, I and D terms of a PID controller used to regulate the object that minimize the the integral of the squared error (ISE):
$$Q = \int_0^\...
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Why is this Verilog RAM modification better in terms of resource usage?
I'm using the open-source toolchain Yosys > NextPnr > IcePack for synthesising code for the Lattice HX8K FPGA. Here's a common version of a 1Kb RAM (that I'm ...
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Preferred resistor (E series) value optimiser
Is there a tool to find the closest optimum preferred resistor values given a list of constraints?
For example I'm designing a filter but only have a few odd resistor and capacitor values to choose ...
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Prevent compiler optimization for memory access in reflashable memory area
I am working with an embedded software in which part of the software(some CONST
config values) are reflashable, without modifying the application software. Consider the following code:
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Compiler optimization prevents code from running
I was trying to upload a simple code to my board Tiva C EK-TM4C123GXL but it didn't work. I found out that when I turn the optimizer off, the code works fine. This is the code for blinking the on-...
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Altium Designer: Not assigning all the sub-parts of a device
I've been banging my head against this one for a while now and can't seem to find and answer anywhere.
I have a multi-channel design that uses a a quad comparator as the base part. However in the ...
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Optimizing magnetic field force of a coil
For a personal project, I've done a redesign of Samy Kamkar's MagSpoof project. Basically, it is possible to use an electromagnet, h-bridge, and microcontroller to trick a magnetic card reader into ...
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Optimization voltage divider measurement
How to design a voltage divider to optimize the measurement error?
Intuitively I would take the same ratio $$\frac{load}{divider} = \frac{divider}{measurement}$$
As follow: the voltage is roughly ...
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How to optimize a binary circuit?
I'm currently in the situation in which I need to optimize a binary circuit by reducing its number of gates.
We regard a circuit simply as a directed acyclic graph with some input wires and some ...
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DC Power Supply Output Caps: Electrical Advantage to using many smaller capacitors instead of few large?
Question: What is the electrical advantage to paralleling smaller capacitors to reach a given capacitance, rather than using fewer smaller capacitors on the output of a DC power supply?
For example, ...
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2^4 finite field multiplication in VHDL
I am currently trying to optimize a 4-bit finite field multiplication modulo X^4 + X^3 + 1 that I've made in VHDL. I did a 16x16 array containing all the results of ...
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Optimization of Vivado synthesis
I am currently using Vivado to develop several FPGA designs, and I am wondering if the components numbers given during Synthesis are optimal. I mean, are there some ways to optimize the synthesis, in ...
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Connect 3 circuits to one switch
I am building some electronic circuits with some arduino in it to animate LED-strip.
The device is powered by 3 USB cables, because as I am using 270 RGB LEDs I can have 5A running trough the cables,...
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How much more hardware for Keerthi's' SMO compared to Platts SMO?
Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask this question. Please let me know if it is not. It would be great if anyone can point out if there is any forum where it may be accepted.
This question ...
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ltspice matlab optimization
Has anybody used ltspiceIV in a optimization process using Matlab? I need feedback because I am running my circuit in transient analysis, and when I found the optimal point of my optimization, I ran ...
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Simplifying many window comparators
I have 8 thermistors and I must make sure that each of them is inside a temperature window. They all have the same window and I don't care which or how many are inside the valid range, I just need to ...
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Minimizing(optimizing) digital logic circuit with multiplexer(s)
(this by the way was an exam question)
For \$F = \sum m(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13)\$, I am trying to implement a digital logic circuit using only the following:
2:1 MUX (cost: 12, and must use at least one ...
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Is there an advantage to my sequential circuit optimization?
I'm trying to create a snake game on a Xilinx Artix7 FPGA, and one of the things I want to check is if the snake has collided with itself. I need to perform this check between game updates to know by ...
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Speed up Vivado Implementation
In Vivado, implementation of my projects can take a while especially if I use debug cores. What can I do to make implementation faster? I tried the "RuntimeOptimized" constraint and it made no ...
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Design to replace several jumper on a dense PCB
I'm working on the design of a board which include a lot of Jumpers (around 40). They are used in order to provide a possibility to connect or disconnect parts of the schematics. Signals are all ...
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How to partially drive a load with respective impact on my electricity meter?
I want to optimize the use of my photo-voltaic production by redirecting the remaining unused energy to electric heaters in winter, or something else in summer (given that fans are inductive loads and ...
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How to predict the output of a solar panel depending upon weather conditions for real time hardware simulation?
I want to build a system for smart grid which can optimize the grid power, load and battery charging to reduce my costs for grid power. For the optimization problem, I must know the current date to ...
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Optimizing Resistor Values for Comparator Reference
Curious if there is a general rule for optimizing total resistance values in a voltage divider reference in a comparator circuit. Guessing it ultimately comes down to whether maximizing accuracy or ...
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Optimal design of electrical grid [closed]
After all that has been learned about electricity - if the grid and removing financial considerations and adoption feasibility. Imagine you're constructing for Mars or some post apocalyptic ...
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Supercompilation for electronic design
I'm reading Advanced FPGA Design and the first example, one of simply raising a number to the 3rd power, quickly diverges into various quite clever optimizations to make the valuation faster.
Now, ...
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Implement a 3-input function using only two 2-input LUTs
This is my homework: "Given the function \$f(x_1, x_2,x_3) = \sum (2,3,4,6,7)\$ Show how it can be realized using two 2-input LUTs. Give the truth table implemented in each LUT."
At the beginning it ...
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Code Optimization of IF Statements?
Considering the design limitation of hardware (clock speed, memory, etc…), is there any better way to write IF statements more efficiently in C language (e.g. run on Arduino), more specifically the ...
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Stochastic optimal control different in finance and engineering [closed]
What is the different between stochastic optimal control approach in finance and engineering?
Why methodes used in finance approach like Ito calculus are not used in engineering?
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SPI chip select optimisation
I am designing an SPI system with one master and two slaves. In a normal SPI system, the master needs 2 outputs to control the slaves' chip select lines. I want to use only one output to drive both ...
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XC32 optimizes vaiable used for register reading
I am facing a problem with XC32 compiler's optimization. Whenever I write a function to read something from register, XC32 optimizes (read: Removes) the variable which holds the return value.
I have ...
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Optimization of component values in LPF
I'm designing a 2nd order low-pass Butterworth filter using a Sallen-Key topology (for reminder) :
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Now, I am trying to find the ...
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How to control the driving frequency when working with high power ultrasonic transducers
I would like to know the simplest solution to dynamically tune the driving frequency of an ultrasonic transducer to its resonance frequency.
My amplifier has a power meter that I can read an optimize ...
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Optimally convert (small) boolean expressions into NOR form by hand
Is there a way to easily convert a boolean expression with only few variables into a NOR form?
Let's take the half-adder as an example:
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