Updates This Month

• Added a page with info on using the volatile keyword in firmware.

  

• Added a page on current mirrors.

  

• Added more info on the Hybrid-pi BJT model.

  

• Added info on BJT output transfer characteristics.

  

• Added a new page with info on the common emitter BJT amplifier.

  

• Added info on the Resistor Optimizer tool.

  

• Added the new page How To Create Sine Waves From Square Waves And RC Filters.

  

• Added a new page on Switched Capacitor Filters.

  

Updates This Month

• Changed the left side-bar, main content and right side-bar columns widths at various screen breakpoints to make the main content larger on wider screens.

• Added a how-to on an easy method for measuring inductance using a signal generator and oscilloscope.

  

• Updated info on the saturated current of an inductor.

  

• Started a page on SMPS EMC and hot loops.

  

• Added FCC Part 15 conductive limits and CISPR 11 info to the EMC page.

  

• Tied up the SMPS pages.

• Added info on LISNs.

  

• Added more info on SQL, MySQL and MariaDB.

  

• Added a new page on thermal jumper chips.

  

• Added the new page Embedded Systems And The Volatile Keyword.

  

Updates This Month

• Added info on SPI peripherals with shared MOSI/MISO pins.

  

• Added a new page on Elastomeric connectors.

  

• Added a new page on the RP2040 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi Ltd.

  

• Added more info on MX circular connectors.

• Added info on UART frame structure.

  

• Added info on MQTT-SN (MQTT for Sensor Networks).

• Added info and diagrams on SPI CPOL and CPHA settings, incl. example byte transfers.

  

• Added a new page on the Kalman Filter (still in notes form).

Updates This Month

• Updated the PID Control page.

• Added more info on SMA filters, including the recursive SMA algorithm and plots showing SMA filters working on noisy data. Also moved info on moving average filters onto it’s own page.

• Added info on the impulse response of a IIR EMA filter.

• Added info on handling embedded firmware errors in C++ constructors.

Updates This Month

• Added a new page on the SOD-882 component package.

• Updated the info on the SOT-883 component package.

• Updated info on the WSON component package.

• Added more info on CAN bus errors and error handling/fault confinement.

• Added a new page on the Macro X component package.

• Updated the info on the LGA component package.

• Added more info on non-standard QFN packages.

• Added info on the Bourns The Potentiometer Handbook.

• Added graphs and equations on potentiometer tapers and info on potentiometer independent linearity.

• Added info/waveforms on power management IC UVLO/OVLO.

• Added image of a wirewound resistor.

• Added a new page on the SOT-143 component package.

• Created a new page called Protecting IO Lines From ESD.

• Added a donation button and the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to all content pages.

• Started working on a new page with info on Delta-Wye resistor networks.