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| With increasingly sophisticated technology all the processes such as AM and FM demodulation, stereo decoding and RDS information recovery ca...

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| The oscilloscope is a fine tool for showing the evolution of a signal in time, but when it comes to digital signals it soon shows its limita...

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| The performance of a receiver depends to a large extent on its input filters. A selective input circuit improves antenna matching and immuni...

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| Although oscilloscopes are less expensive now than a few years ago, we can devise something even more economical. Our ATM18 project gives yo...

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| Recently PREMA released the PR4101, a step-down driver designed for power LEDs. It requires an input voltage of between 7 V and 40 V and at...

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| The first five instalments of this course have already covered many programming techniques with an emphasis on practical applications. This...

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| There is plenty of cable in the world, most of it tangled up behind various pieces of equipment. An alternative is data transfer using low-c...

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| In this article we describe a low-cost yet reliable radio module that can be used with the ATM18 test system to build remote control and rem...

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| It is important when designing any software that the processor resources are used efficiently. We expand on this theme here and give some po...

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| We have already taken a look at timers in part 3 of the course. The ATmega timer/counters have far more to offer than just measuring time. H...