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the analysis, interpretation and manipulation of signals
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A chip or a circuit that sends a signal with more current or voltage, or over longer distances.
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Any circuit for driving a motor that's more complex than wiring it to a power source through a simple on/off switch. Examples include speed and torque control using H-bridges, brushless motor controll…
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The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip/module with UART connections and a built-in TCP/IP stack.
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Questions about cable types, properties, ratings and construction.
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Short for Liquid Crystal Display. LCDs consume little power, and exist in graphic LCDs, or segmented. The latter type is used for character and 7-segment digit display, and also in custom LCDs for con…
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A multiplexer selects one of two (or more) inputs based on a control input. It then outputs the selected input.
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Low-power refers to electronics that are designed to use less power than their common counterparts. This is often a requirement because of limited available power, as in battery operated devices, or i…
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Differential refers to any kind of signaling where the signal information is carried by two or more paths and both are required to properly reconstruct the signal. For example, USB D+ and D-
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Switching can be defined as the change in state whether it be an analog, digital, or mechanical device. For digital devices, switching can be defined as a transition from HIGH to LOW or vice versa. Fo…
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Anything related to transfer functions, i.e. those complex-valued functions of a complex variable used to model mathematically the I/O relationship of linear time-invariant initially-at-rest system us…
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Questions about the design of electronics for use in an automotive environment. (Questions about the installation and use of automotive electronics are unlikely to be appropriate for this site.)
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A circuit which allows power to be applied to a load in either direction. Often used for reversible motor control.
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A circuit that accepts a small-signal digital input and produces as output a high current appropriate for driving the gate of a power MOSFET. See also the [gate-driving] tag.
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A low bandwidth, low-power short-range wireless protocol typically used for personal area networks that operates on 2.4GHZ-2.485GHZ.
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A device which controls the voltage and current being delivered to a capacitor or battery.
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Thermal energy; where it comes from, and how to keep it from damaging components
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Capacitance is the ability of a body to store an electrical charge
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These are part of AC to DC conversion. A half-wave rectifier keeps only the positive part of the signal. A full-wave rectifier also keeps the negative part, but flips it to make it positive too.
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Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is a branch of electronics related to identifying and solving problems caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) between devices. It encompasses both attempting …
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A multifunction measuring instrument used for measuring AC and DC voltage [V] and current [A] as well as resistance [Ω]. Many digital multimeters can also measure frequency [Hz], duty cycle [%], capac…
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More than one of a thing, performing the same task simultaneously
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An electronic component that sources current - if it sinks current it is called a current sink but both devices (sinks and sources) can be called sources. An IDEAL current source will supply current, …
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A generator is a device that generates electricity from mechanical energy via different energy sources such as heat or kinetic energy of water.
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A length of conductive material used as a conductor of electricity.
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Ancillary circuitry added to a design that provides protection of the main circuitry to enable the main circuits continuing functioning. In some cases the protection circuitry is sacrificial, being d…
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Consider instead more specific tags, e.g., dram, sram, flash
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mechanically-adjustable special-type variable resistor with 3 legs and it is used as a potential-divider. (It is not a meter at-all, but got the name from its historical ancestor which was a meter.)
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A mechanism for the control of program flow in a computer. When interrupted a computer saves it's present operational state and changes to execution of code that is dependent upon which interrupt was…
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Zener is an effect in semiconductors, the name of a diode that uses that effect and more generally any diode that has similar characteristics to a Zener diode.
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A type of bipolar transistor comprised of n-type semiconductor in contact with p-type semiconductor which in turn is in contact with a n-type semiconductor -> thus NPN. The transistor has three termi…
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AC power with three legs run 120 degrees out of phase
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A comparator compares two voltages or currents and switches an output to indicate which is larger.
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GPIO is an acronym for general purpose input/output. The term is typically applied to a pin on a microcontroller (or other device) that may be changed between an input and output under software contro…
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