Working From Home & Electronics Design During the Pandemic
COVID 19-Proof Your Electronics Product Design Projects for Working From Home It’s fair to say that – due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the world of work will never quite be the same again. We’ve been working from home, in lockdown, for a few weeks now. To date, a number of problems and solutions have […]
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project Determining the practicality of a proposed (Internet of Things) IoT project is the first and most important step in IoT product design. If done correctly, this will set up the project for success. Want to turn a good concept into a brilliant, IoT product? There are […]
Survey: Biggest challenges faced by electronic design businesses into 2020
Survey: Biggest challenges faced by electronic design businesses into 2020 As an embedded systems consultancy we wanted to understand what fellow electronic design businesses expected of the future. While exhibiting and presenting at the Engineering Design Show (EDS) recently we interviewed show visitors and asked what they felt their greatest challenges were. We questioned executives […]
UK Electric Vehicle charging…what does the future hold?
UK Electric Vehicle charging…what does the future hold? Our very own Senior Software Engineer Julian Skidmore, recently presented on the challenges the UK charging infrastructure faces in light of growing EV adoption. Here’s what he had to say…. Since Tesla picked up the torch over a decade ago electric vehicle development has progressed at an […]
How to Manage Component Obsolescence
How to Manage Component Obsolescence Obsolescence is a dirty word for most engineers. A successful, reliable product can be suddenly rendered unmanufacturable by a single component going End Of Life (EOL), or a new design hasn’t even gone into production and one of the chips has been pulled by the manufacturer. Sometimes it is ICs, […]
Vehicle 2 Grid VIGIL project rolls out first installations
Vehicle 2 Grid VIGIL project rolls out first installations Read More About The VIGIL V2G Project Completion VIGIL, an innovate UK funded consortium consisting of Aston University, ByteSnap Design, Grid Edge and Nortech Management, has rolled out a new control platform for Vehicle-to-Grid/Building (V2G/V2B) systems and distribution networks. Today VIGIL announced the first installations of: […]
FPGA Design: Connecting Custom Peripherals to AXI Using BRAM Interface
Download the new eBook: FPGA Design – Interfacing Over AXI Using A Simple Address Data Bus In FPGA design, interfacing over AXI (ARM eXtensible Interface) is an increasingly popular choice due to its status as the most widespread AMBA interface, enabling the connection of potentially hundreds of Masters and Slaves in complex SoCs. However, it […]
ByteSnap in Consortium to Develop Pioneering V2G Technology
ByteSnap in Consortium to Develop Pioneering V2G Technology Read More About The VIGIL V2G Project Completion We’re pleased to announce that ByteSnap and a consortium of partners have been awarded a two-year collaborative project, VIGIL (Vehicle-to-Grid Intelligent Control), under a Vehicle-to-Grid competition, funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and the Department for […]
CE marking – 20 things you need to know
CE marking – 20 things you need to know Placed on several categories of products, CE marking is mandatory for machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, medical devices, personal protective equipment and toys. We recently published updated advice for CE and UKCA marking to get you up to date on how compliance law is changing and […]
Microcontroller Design: Optimising Power Consumption in 12 Easy Steps
Microcontroller Design: Optimising Power Consumption in 12 Easy Steps Long battery lifetime is a frequent requirement in embedded product design – particularly in microcontroller design. For instance, we designed an animal tracking product that could run for four years using a 1/3 of an AA cell. Microcontrollers are getting ever more meagre in their power […]