by admin | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
The brushless DC motor (BLDC) is becoming increasingly popular when designing products for markets such as automotive, domestic appliances, tools and industrial systems because it does away with the mechanical commutator (brushes) used in traditional motors, replacing...
by admin | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Over the last few years it has been all too easy to design new products and get them into the market quickly but all that changed in 2020. The onset of COVID-19 sent shockwaves around the world with country after country imposing lockdowns. At that time many...
by admin | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
LIN (Local Interconnect Network) is a serial network protocol used for communication between components in vehicles. LIN is a low cost communications solution as it requires only 3 connections; Ground, Power and signal. These same 3 connections can be daisy chained to...
by admin | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
There are many examples of industrial equipment that were designed may be 20 or 30 years ago that work perfectly well and do the job they were intended for efficiently but on which the user interface is very dated. In today’s world of smartphones and tablets most...
by admin | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Historically if you were designing a contactless card reader then to detect cards you needed to poll periodically by turning the RF field on and sending out polling requests (REQA for ISO14443A for example). This is fine for USB or mains powered readers but for...
