Capacitors

Modified: 16 June, 2021

A introduction to capacitors, a fundamental component used in circuit design. A walk-though of the different types, properties, uses and capacitor equations.

Signal Generators

Modified: 15 June, 2021

Info on signal generators.

Soldering Irons And Stations

Modified: 14 June, 2021

A review of the different makes and models of both soldering irons and soldering stations.

C++ Callbacks (and giving member functions to C-style callbacks)

Modified: 13 June, 2021

How to deal with the tricky issue of callbacks in C++ (incl. how to provide member functions to C-style callbacks), especially in embedded environments.

Electrical Noise

Modified: 8 June, 2021

Noise spectral densities, the colours of noise, thermal noise, and more info about electrical noise.

FPGAS

Xilinx 7 Series (Artix-7, Kintex-7, Virtex-7)

Date Published:	July 15, 2015
Last Modified:	July 15, 2015

PCI Express Support

The GTP transceivers on the 7 Series FPGAs support PCI Express (PCIe), up-to revision 2.0 (also called Gen 2).