Recent content by eemichael83

USB GSM Module with SDK? I was wondering if anyone knows of a USB GSM Module that comes with some sort of development kit. I would like to develop an application (Probably in C#) and be able to send out SMS/Text messages as alerts to certain events. Most of the GSM Modules I've seen are for...

There is a common mnemonic for this: ELI the ICE man ELI - Voltage(E) leads Current(I) in an Inductor(L). The reason why is quite simple, an inductor resists a change in current. By the way, "E" used to be a more common abbreviation than V, V being short for Voltage but E being short for...

Sounds like you just need a pullup resistor.

IMO, by itself no, due to the 'purposes' spec. A DAC or ADC doesn't serve to standardize, speed up, make secret, secure, or shrink anything. It merely converts one signal type to another. I also wouldn't call a rectifier an encoder nor an inverter a decoder. sophiecentaur, your example of an...

My troubles are no more thanks to Alec from Digilent! He took the time to go through the steps I outlined as what I had been doing and got the same result with the same board. After a little investigation he found that the silkscreen print for the I/O on the board was wrong for the output I...

In the most recent email to Xilinx (different service rep, the initial rep only responded to the first email and nothing further), they gave this response: "A .bit file is actually always the same size dependent upon the board being targeted. This allows for the programming interface to...

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Yes, I see the FPGA, both PROM's, and the CPLD on the board in the JTAG chain. The service rep told me that the reason my file is unresponsive on the FPGA is likely due to whatever reason my .bit file is so large, but I can't figure out why that is. The process is pretty straight forward so...

I've recently purchased an FPGA development board from Digilent, particularly the Spartan 3E-1600 MicroBlaze development board. Back in school, we did some very basic VHDL development with Cypress WARP but ran as simulations. I wanted to expand on that and learn something that the industry...

I *think* what you are wanting to do is either work with a CPLD or FPGA. There are some simple differences between the two but for learning with, the CPLD is generally much cheaper (due to lower gate count) and will allow you to learn a lot of the same things. To develop with these, you'll...

As for the 'Maths', if you are just starting in learning Math subjects like Derivatives and Integrals, etc.. OR if you've been out of it for a bit and just want to brush up and review some things, I've found this guy to be very helpful and easy to learn (review) with...

Aside from Algebra and Calculus, I was a bit surprised to learn just how much Statistics is involved in something like Computer Vision. It seems to be nearly all Statistics and Linear Algebra. BTW, OP, you shouldn't feel like you have to have everything that you'll ever need to know learned by...

Assuming you are referring to Impedance and not Resistance, when the core is introduced, the varying magnetic field of the inductor induces eddy currents in the iron core. These eddy's have their own field which opposes the primary (inductor's) field, therefore increasing the impedance.