Activity for Nick Alexeev
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| Comment | Post #293375 |
(overall) You must "truly appreciate [as you put it]" the time of the volunteers here. The three people who have answered your questions have decades [plural] of experience each, and their market consulting rates are in three digits of dollars per hour. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293375 |
You are asking for a spot of design review. For that to start happening , you need to post. (1) Links to the component datasheets, and other reference material. Don't expect us to spend volunteer time on searching for things which you already read. (2) Post the schematic. (3) Post the layout. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
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— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293368 |
@#52987 I asked Eyal78 the same question about 4-layer board. His response here: https://electrical.codidact.com/comments/thread/10542#comment-26409 . From the description it sounds like a low speed board. (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293368 |
@#98019 Andy and I asked you the same question: "Why don't you want to use a 4-layer board?" Do tell us your reasons. (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
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| Edit | Post #293364 | Initial revision | — | 19 days ago |
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A: Power polygon and matching ground > If it is important, how crucial is it that the polygon completely overlaps the ground plane beneath it? A power polygon can hang off the side a of a power plane. Complete overlap isn't crucial. > [...] how significant is it that the ground plane remains continuous and is not split by traces?... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293118 |
A few years ago I was hired to help with a project. Towards the end of the project of course, as is typical for war stories. The circuit had an external watchdog timer (reset supervisor IC) which was fed from the I2C clock line. The engineer who designed the board ran out of GPIO pins and decided ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293009 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Photodiode transimpedance amplifier with single supply synopsis Achievable by using a rail-to-rail op-amp. A small bias on the non-inverting input improves the transient response of the op-amp. That’s the second circuit in the O.P. I use such topology myself for sensing flashing light, as well as steady ambient light. TIA op-amp with non-inver... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292909 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: OPA2211 datasheet discrepancy The 1st page of a datasheet is written by marketing. It can still give you an idea of what the chip is about, but it often contains the performance data under the best conditions. The conditions are rarely specified on the 1st page. Always check the electrical characteristics section and the cha... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292872 |
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| Comment | Post #292527 |
@#56656 Are you certain that you have pollution level 1, and not 2 ? Pollution level 1 is a sealed enclosure. Pollution level 2 is a PCB in a vented enclosure under room conditions (say a motherboard in a desktop PC). Pollution level 2 is the default when you have neither aggravating factors nor ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292525 |
I doubt that these connectors are intended for scenarios where center conductor and shied are on opposite sides of basic insulation. Just like there's no IEC basic insulation in the USB or HDMI jack. What kinds of signals are you going to run through these coaxes? If you'd like further analysis on... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292378 | Question closed | — | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292295 |
Welcome to EE.Codidact . Out of curiosity, which book is this circuit from? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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| Comment | Post #292235 |
Let's look at your situation more broadly. Are you making a one-off for your own home use? Or it this going to be a production run? Or something more exotic? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292235 |
I'd say that the laptop was certified as a system: its case, antenna, and all. If you replace the antenna with something that's not an official replacement part or an accessory released by the maker of the laptop, that would void the certification. It's possible to take FCC certified parts and some... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292235 |
You're going to void the FCC certification which the original laptop had. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292133 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Purpose of resistance between SENSE/FORCE line of power supply > Furthermore, an amplifier symbol called "gm" is labeled as transconductor. What does it do? Transconductors are voltage-controlled current sources, but what are they doing here? The diagram looks like a voltage output power supply. I'll make a working assumption that it's voltage output power s... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292131 |
Could you edit your post, and add a link to the manual (or the datasheet, or the product page), please? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292080 |
Are you designing the entire system? Or are you plugging into an existing system? A lot of systems have a periodic "heartbeat" message on the CAN bus. When your PIC sees the message then it knows it's connected to CAN. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292007 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: STM32. What should be done in firmware for VBUS detection through a GPIO pin? I've found a solution, and tested it. What @Olin wrote earlier holds. This is to post my code for STM32. > Does the VBUS detection have to be done in an interrupt? I've asked the ST's technical support, and they replied that it should be done in the interrupt. Here's my ISR code. / ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291971 |
Already a useful article.
- You could mention that some MCUs have pins which modify how the MCU received the firmware from the ICD and runs it.
-- STM32 have bootloader enable pins BOOT0 and BOOT1. Their behavior and default state varies slightly from sub-family to sub-family (it's described i... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291935 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Are LDOs more efficient than switching regulators in very low currents? The efficiency of the LDO is a function of the input and output voltages. $$\eta = \frac {P{out}} {P{in}} = \frac {I{out} V{out}} {I{in} V{in}}$$ $I{out} \approx I{in}$ for a series linear regulator ¹ ². Input and output currents cancel. $$\eta \approx \frac {V{out}} {V{in}}$$ In your ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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| Comment | Post #291833 |
@#53469 Nice app note. It's the answer to the question. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291838 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Using only ceramic capacitors on an input of an SMPS - unclear advice from manufacturer The electrolytic capacitor acts as a snubber in parallel with the ceramic capacitors. If one were to design an RC snubber to dampen the LC circuit, it would have a large capacitance (compared to the ceramic), and some series resistance. An electrolytic capacitor with some ESR is a cheap way to get ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |