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21Apr/110

What the Fucking Product Assembly Work!!

Recently I am debugging an encoder for a test purpose.

But what the hell problem is that it cannot output a valid result which should include the how many rounds it rotated.

So I just tear it down to check what happened inside. Now I discovered a installation problem. Here is the photo.

 

sigh... What a fucking assembly work here.


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You can see that the pin and socket are not aligned together. So that's the problem what I encountered..  That's so time consuming work..

 

28Mar/110

How to Charge a Battery and Switch Power Supply from Adapter to Battery

Recently I've designed a system that use a battery as a backup power.  It can shutdown the power supply by software.  And also automatically switch power supply from adapter to internal battery.

so here is the circuit diagram.

Power Switch Circuit

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8Jul/100

STM32 Multiple USART Driver

Recently, I am developing a small project which utilize many many uart device. The core controller chip is a STM32 Cortex-M3 Chip which has 5 UARTS.  In order to make full use of these UART interface, I just customized a small USART Driver which can make full control of 5 UARTS.

Due to STM32’s restrictions , only UART1 to UART 4 has the ability of DMA Write, so

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2Jun/100

EDN Design Ideas – Download Them All from 1999 to 2009

Recently, My favourite magazine EDN have changed their website style. But it caused many problem. Now I cannot find new design ideas from the website.  So I just make a google , it tell me that they just hidden the design ideas to magazine issue page. here is the link.

But for your convience, I uploaded all design ideas from Year 1999 to Year 2009, 11 years in all.  You can download them all

[Link]1999-2009.7z

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8Apr/101

Study Notes | How to reduce the ripple noise voltage

Recently, I need to design a filter to deal with the problem of a ripple voltage caused by a SMPS(Switch Mode Power Supply). But it need so much tricky to solve this problem. So here is a guideline to make it more easily to slove this problem.

1. How to measure the ripple voltage ?

The methods to measure the ripple voltage are diverse, but there is a standard which is developed by a Japan Power Module Manufacturer (TDK Power). It provide a standard procedure called JEITA-RC9131A to measure a power supply’s output ripple voltage. Here is the detailed method.

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22Feb/101

Zener Diode Part List

Recently, I use some zener diode as a reference source to drive my comparator  circuit.

So I made a Zener Diode List which from my "Search Job".

Here is the spreadsheet:

1N4099  ~ 1N4135
LOW CURRENT OPERATION 6.8V@250uA IZT
LOW REVERSE LEAKAGE AND LOW NOISE CHARACTERISTICS
1N4158 ~ 1N4193
6.8V@37mA IZT
1N4400 ~ 1N4426
6.8V@37mA IZT
1N4614 ~ 1N4627
1N4678 ~ 1N4717
1N4728 ~ 1N4763
1N5225 ~ 1N5281
1N5333B~1N5388B

They are all Zener Diode, which can be easily got the stores. Here is a PDF which covers all diode

6Jan/100

HOT!! That Chip burned my finger

Pin Up Soldier Image

Recently, I solve a problem which make a DA converter very very hot boiler. But thanks god, it works very well.. so other guys just ignore that problem, errr, I want to fix it.

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5Jan/102

Study Notes | Cadence Allegro SPB

After nearly 3.5 years working in Creative, I finaly decided to change a job with more challenge which I never encoutered.

In a new company, I decide to use OrCAD + Allegro to finish all projects. In next 3~4 weeks, I will write some notes about how to use Allegro to draw a PCB Board. Orcad is somebit of easy job for me because of that I've used a lot with the pspice simulation jobs.

Topic which covers: (Updated 2010-03-29)

1. How to draw Component’s footprint in Allegro

2. How to link a Component’s footprint with a schematic's symbol

3. How to Draw a board outline

4. How to Import a netlist from Capture

4Jan/101

Study Notes | High Speed PCB Layout Guideline

As you all know, I am a heavy search-depent person which got almost information from Google. So in my last year, I give a present a KeyNote to my colleagues  on the Topic of "How to Google Everything".

And as an electronics engineer myself, I also have collected many design rule from Internet. Most of them coming from Semiconductor Corp (TI, NSC, LT, Onsemi, ... ). So here I gave my version of PCB Design GuideLine.

It will be the first one of my series Guide Book called -  TGuide Book Series.

So Here is the 1st one.  High Speed PCB Layout Guide Book

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16Dec/091

Very First Post of My Very First Blog

Hi, everybody. This is a blog site which mainly focus on the Technical stuff ranges from electronics design example, principle behind a circuit , how to program, and so on.

My Name is Chenxiang Hsu. And I am an electronics designer which work in a small company dealing with hardware design job.  If you wanna to talk with me, just write a email to me

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