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DC stands for Direct Current, which means the flow of electric charge in a single direction. Examples of a DC source are batteries, solar panels, dynamos.
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Please specify the battery type in your question. Include chemistry (e.g. lead-acid), voltage, number of cells and how they are connected (series or parallel), capacity (in A·h or W·h).
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varying the duty cycle of a rectangle wave, usually with a constant frequency.
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A switch-mode power supply (SMPS) switches been fully-on and fully-off states quickly to maintain voltage regulation. They offer lower power dissipation and run cooler than linear regulators that cont…
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Refers to the conversion of electric power by using solid state components such as semiconductors. Can also generally apply to the field of electrical engineering which works with power electronics.
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a 8- and 32-bit microcontroller core developed by Atmel. AVR was chosen as microcontroller for the popular Arduino SBCs.
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A filter selectively processes input signals in frequency- or time-domain.
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BJT stands for Bipolar Junction Transistor. It is a three-terminal electronic device constructed of doped semiconductor material and may be used in amplifying or switching applications.
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A common actuator in robotics; it's usually made of a static magnet (stator) and a set of moving inductors, acting as electromagnets, connected to the circuit through brushes. Brushless motors use pha…
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DC-DC conversion. Implies conversion of a DC voltage level up or down. DC-DC converter can be isolated or non-isolated. Electronically it can be done by many kinds of circuits, depending upon the appl…
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a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. There have been several generations of the device with improved performance, more memory, and more connectivity…
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VHDL (VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe and design digital systems such as f…
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About issues caused by electrical noise, or improving the Signal/Noise ratio of an analog circuit.
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Mechanical part providing electrical contacts for a cable or electronic circuit board.
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Identify chips, connectors, cables, and other components, from photographs and descriptions of the surrounding circuitry or equipment.
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a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design, verification, and implementation of digital logic chips.
Please also tag w…
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a stream of information in the form of a varying quantity. Usually in electronics, signals can be in the form of voltages, currents, or radiated electromagnetic fields.
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an imperative (procedural) systems implementation language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language …
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Antenna (radio), also known as an aerial, a transducer designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic (e.g. TV or radio) waves. -Wikipedia
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a multi-drop serial bus invented by Philips (now NXP) for communication between ICs on the same PCB, i.e. short distance.
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a 2 terminal passive device that stores energy in a magnetic field.
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A device or circuit that generates an AC signal at a certain frequency.
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A measure of how much a conductor opposes current flowing through it. It can also refer to a part of a circuit, which has a non-negligible resistance value.
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a low-level 3 or 4 wire serial bus interface with clock (SCLK), data in (MISO) and data out (MOSI). The fourth wire is a Slave Select to uniquely select a device on the bus. This signal is us…
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a computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including har…
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the metallurgic process used to fix electronic components to a PCB. Soldering can be done by hand or automatic. PTH boards were usually wave soldered, SMT uses reflow technology.
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How many times something happens per second, measured in Hz (Hertz).
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hooked up logically. If your question is about a specific schematic software package, use that tag instead.
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A UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) is a piece of logic that sends and receives data on a serial port.
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the most basic elements in an electronic circuit. Characteristic is that they're in a single package. There are passive and active components, from as simple as a zero -ohm resistor to …
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transmitted as a sequence in time. Main advantage: much less wires needed. Main disadvantage: Higher bandwidth for the same throughput.
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The kind of magic without which all of this wouldn't be possible. This tag should be used for questions about the **physics** of the fields that charged particles create and how these fields interact.…
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the reference point in an electrical circuit from which other voltages are measured, or is a common return path for electric current, or a direct physical connection to the Earth.
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a SPICE simulation, schematic capture and waveform viewer program from Linear Technology. LTspice is freeware with very liberal license, it is lightweight and i…
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About tools to simulate circuits. Specify the tool used.
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a family in the AVR series of Atmel microcontrollers. This is the main microcontroller of the Arduino prototyping platform. Please Specify the specific part number in your question.
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