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27-11-2019 | What’s this? A multimeter with a graphic display? That sounds interesting… The PeakTech 3440 can not only display measured values, but also...

1-07-2019 | Upgrading the CPLD board: With an MAX10M08 CPLD as the core component, the board not only provides more logic elements than the previous ver...

1-09-2018 | Basically, there are (just as with modern oscilloscopes) a number of standalone devices equipped with screens and proper push buttons, as we...

1-05-2018 | CPLDs tend to have a large number of pins practically inaccessible to the soldering iron and so do not lend themselves readily to use in hom...

1-03-2018 | For more than a hundred years ‘artificial light’ has almost exclusively meant incandescent lamps. However, the relatively low output of inca...

1-11-2017 | Modern function generators are abundantly complex these days and unlike in analog times they offer far more functions. Studying the various...

1-11-2017 | Sometimes you want to equip a device with a display that can do a bit more than just show basic status information or a couple of numeric va...

3-08-2017 | Sometimes you need to fit equipment with a display able to show electrical signals or waveforms. Oscilloscope modules are available from the...

1-07-2017 | When dealing with radio-frequency signals, it often comes in handy to have an easy way to attenuate a signal level in discrete steps. For ex...

1-07-2017 | For the purposes of setting up CCTV surveillance systems I needed a small, mobile, battery-powered video test-card picture generator. In my...