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Archive of entries posted on April 2008

The basics of control system design – George Ellis

Embedded Systems Design – Embedded.com

Moving beyond PID
Tuning a Proportional Controller
Tuning a PI Controller

Reading the excellent articles above, i was reminded of an incident….Proportional Controllers not only save energy, they can give a controlled finish or treatment to a job. An on-off controller or thermostat limit protection has to be used in series, this is to [...]

Circuits Archive – ASCII circuit diagrams

Circuits Archive – ASCII circuit diagrams

The Multivibrator Circuit
Guitar Effect Circuit
Paradoxical sound synthesizer
Microphone Pre-Amp
Active Antenna
Everything you ever wanted to know about LCDs
List of Capacitor type qualities
Collection of Design Notes

Microchip PIC – Connectivity Design Centers

Microchip PIC – Connectivity Design Centers
“Ethernet communication solutions offer access to the most widely deployed networking system. The TCP/IP protocol, which is at the core of this technology, allows total location independence and interoperability to any embedded application.”.

Ethernet
TCP/IP
ZigBee
MiWi

“The emerging standard for flexible wireless networking specifically designed for embedded control. ZigBee supports stars, clusters and mesh [...]