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Posts by Lundin‭

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Q&A I have to choose: Arduino or Raspberry pi.

Rasp PI is a PC in disguise - it is a single-board computer. As such it runs Linux and like any Linux PC, it doesn't allow real-time execution, direct access to physical addresses, deterministic ...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Papers How to introduce or port my microcontroller project to MISRA C?

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Article C firmware MISRA
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Meta What residential wiring questions are on-topic here?

The reason I left that comment is because determining the quality of a coaxial cable involves electrical engineering more so than an electrician, let alone some DIY. The rule of thumb "would you a...

posted 8mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Tag creation/deletion criteria

Draft for a tag creation/deletion criteria A tag must fulfill all of the below requirements or it may get renamed or deleted: A tag must be named appropriately, considering Tag naming guideline...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Tag naming guidelines.

Additions: Do not use company names in tags. Questions should be about specific products, not about companies. Furthermore, silicon companies merge/split and purchase each other all the time, ...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Disabling breakpoints in real-time section of firmware

Breakpoints are beyond the scope of the C language, so this is up to the specific debugger and CPU core. What you will probably have to do to block accidental breakpoints is to not provide any debu...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta How to deal with design review questions?

A while back someone suggested that we added a section for reviews to the site - How about a new section for code reviews? From that meta thread we gathered that: There seems to be community con...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A MOSFET protection with TVS: at the source pin or at the drain pin

Using a P FET for polarity protection like this means that in case you flip + and -, the gate will be inactive, meaning that GND which is now connected to drain will get disconnected - no current w...

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Q&A Using arc trace routing instead of 45 degree trace routing

The 45° routing makes it easier to route multiple parallel traces across the PCB - I would say that's the main reason why they are so popular. Whereas 90° turns of multiple parallel traces next to ...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Isolated Digital Input - Overvoltage protection

Step 1: Since 3V3_ISO would be LDO driven I would probably add a diode with the anode connected to the LDO output and a cathode connected with the LDO input to prevent the LDO to have output high...

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Meta Can I ask about debugging/fixing a broken product?

A little check list of some basic things to ask yourself before asking such a question: Is this some manner of high/mains voltage device? Repairing such electronics is very dangerous if you don'...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Why are posts that users clearly approve of being closed?

The current applicable rule from https://electrical.codidact.com/help/topics would be: Off-topic ... High-level use of electrical devices. If your question treats a device like a black box and isn...

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Q&A How to estimate time of completion while developing an electronic product?

First of all, it depends on how much work the customer has done in advance. Do they have a proper spec? Do they at least have a bunch of key requirements? Or is it just "out there" and you must dra...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Microwave oven interfering with WiFi on the 2.4GHz band

As I understand it, microwave oven magnetrons operate at 2.45GHz, which is an unlicensed band in most of the world. When 2.4GHz technologies such as WiFi (802.11), Bluetooth and Zigbee were launche...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by TonyStewart‭

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Meta Are reference requests on-topic?

We haven't really addressed what SE would call "requests for external resources" here. I think it's quite clear that we aren't taking shopping recommendations, as in "where do I buy this part". Ask...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Creating a FAQ: how to read a datasheet

How about this: I create a meta thread here where everyone is welcome to post contents, feedback and proposed changes. The question of the meta thread should contain a continuously updated draf...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering?

I support this idea and think that it might fit the Papers category, although it should be allowed to have multiple users maintain and moderate it. It should be a brief glossary for a quick look-up...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A CAN Bus - Internal Oscillator

Check out What are the most common causes of CAN bus communication errors? As stated there, CAN requires a clock accuracy of 1.58% or your CAN node is non-compliant. I would recommend to use <1...

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Meta Tags about quantities: should we have them?

Using voltage as a way of saying "I'm dealing with voltage here" is pointless - most electronics questions do. I think the voltage vs current tags are however relevant in the case when you need to...

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Meta Tag naming guidelines.

I agree with everything said. I didn't really consider until now that Codidact (unlike Someplace Else) supports case-sensitive tagging. So in addition, perhaps add a note regarding the following: ...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Bit-rate vs Baud-rate

Baudrate is most often used to mean payload data bits/second. Simply picture a manchester encoded protocol, where each data bit corresponds to 2 physical bits in the raw data frame. If you have a b...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Please find other ways to hide inloved questions that prompt close

The default scope in this EE community pretty much went with the same scope as the SE site. For now. These sites are new and most communities are still struggling to come up with what's off-topic ...

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Meta Professional vs Hobbyist advice and potentially dangerous projects

The main problem with a question along the lines of "how do you design a product for medical applications" is that it's way too broad. You cannot reasonably write a somewhat complete answer because...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A CAN BUS monitoring with a LED

I've done similar things on UART lines, but for significantly lower baudrates (9600 etc) than traditionally used on most CAN buses. It's also easier to do when you have 5V guaranteed to be well-ov...

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Q&A Why RC toys still operate in 27Mhz band?

I can think of a couple of reasons: Lower frequencies mean superior range at the same output power. Whereas for example 2.4 GHz technologies tend to behave much more "directional" on short ranges...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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