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Keeping Instrument GUIs Responsive with Qt
How to structure Qt instrument GUIs so serial, USB, TCP, and SCPI hardware failures do not freeze widgets, hide stale data, or leave operators guessing.
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Writing Drivers for I2C Chips in Embedded Systems
How to build maintainable I2C chip drivers for sensors, ADCs, EEPROMs, GPIO expanders, and other peripheral devices without leaking bus details into application code.
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Writing Drivers for SPI Chips in Embedded Systems
A practical reference for embedded SPI drivers for ADCs, sensors, DACs, and other peripheral chips, covering datasheets, timing, testing, and bring-up.
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The Definitive Guide to Bit Manipulation for Embedded Systems
A comprehensive embedded guide to bit masks, register fields, target intrinsics, packed protocol values, atomicity, and C++ std::bitset.
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Repairing bad capacitors in a monitor’s power supply
A very common problem with power supply boards, motherboards and generally all PCs and TVs which are produced between 1999 and 2007 is the premature defect on some Taiwanese made electrolyte capacitors with bad electrolyte formula. Although this…
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Transmitting strings and numerical values by USART in STM32 microcontrollers
Have you ever wondered how to send strings and numbers using USART in micro-controllers? No worries! The answer is here! The other day I was cleaning up and giving some order to my STM32 based projects, to extract…