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Measuring and Calculating Lux Values
Turn your photosensor signal into an illuminance measurement. Elusive Lux In a previous article, we defined illuminance as…
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Understanding Illuminance: What’s in a Lux?
Find more more about light intensity. Lux Matters Measuring the intensity of light is nothing new. However,…
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Use Python’s Scientific Toolbox to Find the Natural Response of Thermal Systems
Technical Concepts Discussed: * Natural response * Differential equations * Python 3.x * C Introduction…
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Introduction to the Manually-Controlled Toaster Oven Reflow
With the help of a DIY thermocouple measurement system, you can use a cheap toaster…
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Make an EFM8-Based System for Monitoring and Analyzing Thermocouple Measurements
With this microcontroller-to-PC interface you can conveniently monitor a temperature and visualize how the temperature…
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Negative Feedback, Part 8: Analyzing Transimpedance Amplifier Stability
The techniques discussed in previous articles can help us to understand and remedy stability problems…
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Negative Feedback, Part 6: New and Improved Stability Analysis
This article will show you a handy alternative approach to assessing stability via open-loop gain…
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Negative Feedback, Part 5: Gain Margin and Phase Margin
Use frequency-domain simulations to analyze loop gain and evaluate the stability of your amplifier circuit. Just so…
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Negative Feedback, Part 4: Introduction to Stability
Why are negative-feedback amplifiers susceptible to oscillation? What is the fundamental criterion for stability? Let’s…
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Negative Feedback Part 3: Improving Noise, Linearity, and Impedance
You can use negative feedback to increase your amplifier’s signal-to-noise ratio, reduce its nonlinear distortion,…