
Timers Huh? What are they good for?
Jay takes us through the basics of managing timers on a microcontroller!
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Jay takes us through the basics of managing timers on a microcontroller!
Read MoreWe hope you’ve had a pleasant week. It’s certainly been a productive week for those of us at Digilent. We’re busy working on some very interesting projects that we should be able to share soon!
Read MoreWe hope you’ve had a good week! It’s been a pleasant week for those of us at Digilent, After a fun time at ECEDHA, we’ve been enjoying a quieter week at Digilent. We’re very much looking forward to sharing some of the cool things we’ve been working on.
Read MoreTake a look at a circuit board and chances are you’re going to find a resistor or two. Most boards today use surface-mount device (SMD) technology, so the components are almost too small to see sometimes, but they are on there, I promise. How do engineers decide which resistors to use in the design? Sometimes it depends on how you want that portion of the circuit to perform, as in the case of an op-amp. Other times it’s to prevent too much current from passing through a given point in a circuit, which is why they are often called current-limiting resistors. Maybe you want a simple way to divide the voltage or current. The reality is that there are numerous ways to use resistors, and oftentimes, the defining the resistor value is up to you.
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