Entries for the 'Embedded Development & Programming' Category

Boris Cherkasskiy

10/11/2013

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Good-old rotary dial phones have been around since forever, and they used to be a part of everyday life, like dragons during medieval period. However, like dragons, suddenly all these marvelous ancient devices just disappeared one day. I was lucky to...

Boris Cherkasskiy

07/17/2013

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People who know me have probably noticed that I have pretty bad handwriting skills. I recently realized that apparently there is a pretty scary word for my case: dysgraphia. Fortunately I was growing up long enough ago when this word hadn't ...

Furqan Ayub

07/10/2013

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Engineers at DMC often tend to have fun tech hobbies to work on in their spare time. I worked on such a project a couple years ago and wanted to share it on our blog. I came across this webpage while looking for cool LCD projects: Connect Nokia ...

Ryan Taylor

07/08/2013

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I've never been much of a morning person; some days, the snooze button on my alarm clock works harder than I do. I also like to take public transit to work as often as possible. An unfortunate side effect of my erratic waking habits is that ...

Ryan Taylor

06/17/2013

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Some rules are meant to be broken. Unfortunately, none of them apply to PCB design. Designing and developing printed circuit boards can be an unforgiving process: placing a critical analog line just a few millimeters closer to a noisy clock lin...

Alex Krejcie

04/24/2013

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In Part 1, I talked about how battery capacity is rated and how certain conditions can affect relative battery capacity. This case study will specifically focus on a solution DMC provided for a low power embedded application designed around user inte...

Alex Krejcie

04/24/2013

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As portable devices become more capable, powerful and smaller, people expect them to have more features, perform better, and replace the functionality of multiple devices. However, while embedded performance has skyrocketed, battery performance has s...

Ryan Taylor

01/13/2013

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With Android operating system’s market share growing rapidly, the appeal for developers to release their applications on this platform has never been higher. Android is quite developer friendly, and as it matures the variety of applications has...

Ryan Taylor

10/31/2012

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Like many other students, I considered my TI-89 graphing calculator to be a lifeline during high school calculus and beyond. That device (which I still have and use today) was my first formal introduction to Texas Instruments, and since then I&r...

Boris Cherkasskiy

10/01/2012

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TI (Texas Instruments) is awesome - I've always known it. What I like the most is their extremely low-cost ($4.30, who beats that?) Launchpad development kit that includes 2 "value line" (pronounced "super-cheap") mi...