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MOSFET Power Loss Calculator

Online MOSFET Power Loss/Dissipation Calculator and Guide for Engineers In the dynamic world of power electronics, understanding and minimizing power losses in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) is crucial for optimizing ...


Trying Out ARM Mbed OS’s New Support for USB Device with Some Retro Hardware

Many products feature USB to facilitate communication between various devices, to transfer files easily, support hardware peripherals or add other features. While working on embedded systems, we have developed a variety of devices that utilize USB in...


DMC's Custom Bootloader

For anyone who has worked on an embedded project, you can understand the hassle of loading code onto a microcontroller. To alleviate this issue and cut down on the extra time that comes from this process, DMC designed and built a custom boot loading ...


How To Disassemble and Fix a Fried S7-1200 PLC

Don’t you hate it when your coworker inadvertently wires up a 24V PLC to wall power and lets out the magic smoke? Just such a mishap happened in our lab a while back and the broken PLC was sitting around in the junk bin for a while. Figuri...


The Product Development Process: How to Bring Your Product to Market

Have you ever had a product design idea? Our engineers created this overview of the product development process to demystify how to bring your product to market.  Learn more about DMC's Custom Software and Hardware Development...


Exploring Altium: Using Design Variants

One of my absolute favorite things about embedded design is watching a product evolve over the development cycle. From unboxing the first prototype all the way to the release of the deluxe commercial model, each revision of the design poses new and i...


Pet Project: Turn A Fan Into A Clock

For those of you with electronics hobbies, here is an interesting pet project that is not very difficult or expensive. In fact, you can find most of the parts lying around your house. The idea is to make an analog display clock. The finished product ...


Repairing an NI USB-6351 X-Series DAQ

Recently, I’ve needed to do some proof of concept testing for a LabVIEW-based project. The only special I/O requirement for my prototype was a +/- 10V analog output that is capable of sourcing at least 1mA of current. The good news was that DMC...


Updating Your Rotary Dial Phone for the Digital Age

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...


Exploring Altium: Design Rules

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...


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