Thursday, 20 March 2014

Video Tutorials To Understand Logic Gates!  




1. Digital Electronics: Logic Gates - Integrated Circuits


This is an Integrated Circuits experiment from the EE223 Introduction to Digital and Analogue electronics module at the Dublin City University.

2. Basic Logic Gates


This half hour long tutorial on Basic Logic Gates may help you in solving various electronics problems.

3. An Introduction to Logic Gates


This is a tutorial on logic gates that covers transistors, Boolean Algebra, AND OR NOT NOR NAND XOR and XNOR gates and how to build a very basic computer.

4. Logic Gates and Circuit Simplification Tutorial


This tutorial teaches you the basics of logic gates and truth tables of each of the functions.

5. Minecraft : Logic Gates - Redstone Tutorial


In this tutorial you will learn how to build all seven of the basic logic gates craftable in Minecraft. This includes AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR.

6. Logic Gates Tutorial Series


This is a tutorial series on logic gates that comprises of six videos. You can look through this to understand various aspects of the topic. 

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How to Make a night vision camera using EMBEDDED system

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

10 Free eBooks On Embedded Systems!


1. Embedded Systems - Theory and Design Methodology


Author/s: K. Tanaka

This book is an apt read for those researching on topics of embedded systems like the basic researches, theoretical studies, and practical work.

2. Embedded Systems - High Performance Systems, Apps and Projects


This book is oriented towards the big and wide spectrum subjects of embedded systems which includes topics like parallel computing, application-specific systems, communication architecture, and embedded systems projects.

3. First Steps with Embedded System


Author/s: Byte Craft Limited
Publisher: Byte Craft Limited

If you are an intermediate level programmer who programs microcontrollers using C, this book is a must read for you. The book takes you one step above the basic theory and helps you take your first step in practical programming.

4. Introduction to Embedded Systems - A Cyber-Physical Systems


Author/s: Edward Ashford Lee, Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia
Publisher: Lulu.com (April 13, 2011)

The book seeks to explain the basic embedded systems both as a technology and as a subject of study.

5. Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems


Author/s: Michael J. Pont
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (July 12, 2001), ebook (2009)

This book takes you through 70 well proven design techniques patterns which can help in enhancing the rapid development and dependability in the embedded systems which are founded on the 8051 microcontroller family.

6. Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Approach


Author/s: Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis
Publisher: Wiley; New edition edition (October 17, 2001)

This book will introduce you to with the modern approaches to embedded system design. It presents a unified appearance of software and hardware design to its readers.

7. Embedded Software Development with eCos


Author/s: Anthony J. Massa
Publisher: Prentice Hall (December 5, 2002)

The book is a start-to-finish guide on eCos solution building. It covers everything right from eCos architecture, its installation and configuration, its coding and deployment, and the complete eCos open source development system.

8. Programming Embedded Systems using C (Mikael J. Pont)


Author/s: Mikael J. Pont
Publisher:Addison-Wesley Professional (May 4, 2002), eBook (2006)

If you are a programmer with desktop experience in C programming language, this book is designed for you. It is an in-depth guide to every basic technique required in embedded system.

9. Programming Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems


Author/s: Adam Dunkels
Publisher: Mälardalen University Press (2007)

This book concentrates on three basic aspects of programming the networked embedded systems constrained by memory i.e. the TCP/IP, simplifying the event-driven loading, and dynamic loading of the systems.

10. Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++


Author/s: Michael Barr
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 30, 1999)

If you are familiar with programming in C and C++, and you now want to program embedded systems, this book is apt for you. The book carries a hands-on and no nonsense approach helps the readers in getting started with various practical examples.

5 Free And Open Source Software For PCBs



1. PCB 


Supported OS: Windows,linux,MAC
License: Freeware

PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac systems. PCB includes a rats nest feature and schematic/netlist import, design rule checking, and can provide industry standard RS-274X (Gerber), NC drill, and centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and assembly process, as well as photorealistic and design review images.

2. Fido CadJ 


Supported OS: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
License: GPL

FidoCadJ is an easy to use graphical editor, with a library of electrical symbols and footprints. It aims to be an agile and effective small EDA tool for hobbyists.

3. Gerb 


Supported OS: Linux, Windows
License: GPL

Gerbv is a viewer for Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files, and CSV pick-and-place files.

4. PHDL


Supported OS: Windows
License: GPL

An HDL alternative to PCB graphical schematic capture tools.

5. Qautoroute


Supported OS: Windows
License: GPL