Electronics Design

VGA signal generation hacks

This is continuation to Interesting VGA hacks hacks posting. Interesting VGA hacks hacks was concentrated on using VGA card for nontraditional uses, this posting on the other hand concentrates on generating VGA signals with other hardware than VGA graphics card. It seems that modern microcontrollers are well suited to display information on analog VGA monitors:

Power supply teardowns reveal safety issues

A power supply is an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load. Most of the power supplies you use every day are the AC-DC power supplies that convert mains AC power (typically in 100-240V range) to low voltage DC (typically 5V to 24V). In those power supplies the output will be electrically

Electronics trends for 2016

Here is my list of electronics industry trends and predictions for 2016: There was a huge set of  mega mergers in electronics industry announced in 2015. In 2016 we will see less mergers and how well the existing mergers went. Not all of the major acquisitions will succeed. Probably the the biggest challenge in these