Data are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items
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CDMA phones flag data [closed]
Short:
what are the flag data in CDMA phone network?
Long:
Recently I remembered that I used one CDMA mobile. The phone is out of contract now (but still gets signals). I put battery & charged ...
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Getting experimental motor data for AI based fault diagnostic scheme
I am working on a personal project, which is an AI based induction machine fault diagnostic scheme.
I do not have the required funds to purchase the hardware, i.e. the motors and data acquisition ...
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How to reduce the data rate?(OV7670 + AL422B(FIFO) Camera Module)
i bought this module: OV7670 + AL422B(FIFO) Camera Module and i want to send the live video of the camera by this NRF24L01 but i have a problem.
I don't know is the RF module suitable(NRF24L01) for ...
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Salvage data from a reverse connected thermocouple?
My SAE Baja team had a competition this past weekend, and we were using some thermocouples in order to get some temperature data on the drivetrain and engine.
They were hooked up right before the ...
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Does forcing a data line to a higher power make it more resistant to interference?
A device I'm working on as a hobby project requires me to transmit a HDMI signal over cat5. The TMDS lines in HDMI are balanced but in order for me to continue transmitting the DDC signal with the ...
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Why to multiply all audio input with 1000/sqrt(sumsofInputSquare/datalength) [closed]
My thesis is about voice segeration.
I am reading a code which has been used in this field. It most probably not needed but here is the fullCode
I can't understand something which owner code did ,
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Theoretical Clock Question
Just a theoretical question more than anything. Does the clock signal have to have the same width between peeks and troughs?
A normal clock signal with data (below):
A random clock signal with ...
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Wireless data acquisition for PC
I’m looking for an off the shelf device to send a serial stream of data (low speed ok) wirelessly to a PC. I’m guessing the easiest way is through a comm port or USB port. Distance is less than 25 ...
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Is analog output more accurate than RS232 output?
Where I'm working they use an electronic device to calculate the exact wind speed. One of the parameters besides humidity and temperature they use is the pressure. And they measure it by using the ...
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Is it true that copying is the most CPU intensive operation?
A mech engineer said that copying puts more load on the microprocessor than "other" operations (e.g. moving data or creating the same amount of new data). Is this true? Can you elaborate? I understand ...
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Transferring arbitrary data via Bluetooth Smart (BLE) with nRF51
I was wondering if it was possible to send arbitrary packets of data over a Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy, 4.0) link from a nRF51 (Nordic Semi, BLE compliant SoC) to a phone?
Also if you don't know the ...
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What limits wireless data transfer rates (compared to wired)?
A friend and I were discussing the possibility of wireless video cables and we quickly realized that the bottleneck is the current data transfer rate of wireless technology. The average wireless ...
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Bit error rate calculations for a photodiode receiver driven from a laser
I'm having problems understanding how the following specification for a photo-diode (with built-in amplifier) rationalizes the bit error rate: -
Circled in red are two important figures. One is NEP ...
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Saving user input as an array and recalling it later
I am currently working with an Arduino Mega and a SainSmart LCD and I have gotten most of my project to work except for a problem I am currently having.
On my LCD screen, I have various buttons, and ...
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Custom USB Impedance question
I'm looking at making my own USB cable for a project. The primary issue I'm having is that I'm getting a lot of capacitance in my cable between D+ and D- (400ish pF) which is enough to throw off the ...
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Is there any possibility of dissecting a microchip to get data from its internal memory?
There are many devices that perform various cryptographic operations inside their microchips. One of their key feature is that the secret keys are stored inside of the hardware and never leave it. ...
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How to send ASYNC 8,N,1 serial data over an SPI interface using two Arduino Uno boards
Need help with sending ASYNC data between two Arduino UNO R3 micro-controllers.
System design follows:
RS232 modem 19,200,8,N,1 --> UNO-1 D0=(rx), D1=(tx). RS232 parameters cannot be changed because ...
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displaying JPEG images [closed]
I want to display images(JPEG) stored in a SD card, I want the output to be VGA so that I can display them in readily available display modules.
Any idea on how this can be done?
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ADC resolution selection
I want to convert analog output of an accelerometer to digital codes.
I understand that the sampling rate of the ADC should be with reference to Nyquist criteria.
Please let me know how to decide ...
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Basic protection for USB interface
I have never protected my USB interfaces for microcontrollers until a USB port of my PC stopped working because of a bad connection aparently. So I'm starting to protect them but I found some ESD IC's ...
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sniff telephone line data using old modem [closed]
i have an old modem that i'd like to use to sniff the data going out on the telephone line. i realize that i can't use the computers serial port to process the data as they are real slow. Can anyone ...
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Has anyone transmitted data across a badly coupled transformer and recovered the data correctly
EDITED June 9th 2013 to give more detail (hopefully)
I've recently set-up a data transmission system on a rotating machine. The data was collected and serialized from several ADCs connected to strain ...
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Eco-roof flow meter with “counter channel” output - what is that?
Some background:
I'm working on an eco-roof flow monitoring project and we want to hook up a Unidata 6506G tipping bucket flow gauge (our effluent flow is in a strange low range range where we needed ...
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Converting logic and sign
I have an interesting project and I could use a little help. I'm using a microcontroller who's input to the ADC and output on the GPIO and DAC pins are all within a 3.3V range, and I have to interface ...
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Data recovery Baby-G watch (BG-162)? [closed]
I was wondering if it is possible to recovery data that was stored in a Baby-G watch (BG-162) which had no battery in it for two years or longer? No current was flowing through it, I lost it's joint ...
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I2C combining read and write operation
I'm designing my own data protocol for communication between PICs, ICs, etc. and in the specification I'd like to compare it to the existing I2C protocol.
There are two types of operation on the I2C ...
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Value of M-Ary?
Here, I want to simulate an M-ary [pulse-amplitude modulation] system. Anyhow, I chose my binary source to generate information at a rate of 1Mbps. The data "virtually" has a zero intersymbol ...
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Saving data in Code Composer
I have a circular buffer in my code (TI 28027) saving around 500 data points. Is there a way to easily save this data to a text file in Code Composer 4? Right now I am just using watch window, ...
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Algorithm for value range mapping
My question perhaps belongs to general ability test or something like that. It is not directly related to Embedded devices.
I have been given a variable resister which can rotate infinitely and is of ...
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Set top boxes - database of ‘tv programme/channel’ [closed]
I am currently researching the construction and functionality of set top boxes for services such as Sky + and Freeview.
I need to understand if and how a database structure would be used in terms of ...
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msp430 - adc data to sd card
my question is to establish a connection between sensors and MSP430 with the ADC pins. Then taking those data to store it in SD card. SD card is in SPI mode. I want to graph these data on Excel or ...
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Flexible-PCBs: what data is needed for manufacturers?
Can someone explain more about how you generate data for flexible or flexi-rigid PCBs for manufacture? Do I just make more layers and export more gerber files? Is there anything I need to keep in mind ...
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Can someone tell me what this datasheet is trying to tell me?
This datasheet is for an audio delay IC that i plan on using:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tpa5052.pdf
I understand everything pretty clearly except some important details that i've circled in ...
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How data is stored in memory beyond 0s and 1s?
I am working as software Engineer. As far as I know the data being stored in memory (Either HARD Disk or RAM) is 0s and 1s.
I am sure beyond 0s and 1s there are different ways data being stored in ...
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How often does “bit rot” occur?
I have been thinking about the permanence of information lately and I was wondering at what rate a bit on a consumer spinning disk hard drive is corrupted and what are some factors that speed up or ...
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D flip flop data extraction
How do you get the data out of a d flip flop? On wikipedia it says that if the clock is non-rising then it ouputs Q. Isn't the clock always non-rising if it's not changing the data? If it is, then ...
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BNC camera computer interface
I have some security cameras who's only interface is a BNC connector and I want to use them to do video processing. I want to find a simple way to interface a BNC camera with my computer so that I can ...
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Communication between modules over USB using a uC
I have a module (say A) which sends data serially to me at 5 Mbps. I want to transfer this data to another module (say B). For B, I have a few choices for links: USB, UART, PCI/E, etc. I am not sure ...
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Why i can't recevied data from pc to arduino?
I developed a app that send data for arduino by serial port, but i can understand how i can recevied in arduino. Because i send a string by serial port for arduino and the arduino recevied anything ...
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What should I know about interference between wires in a multi-conductor cable?
I want to use a multi-conductor cable for a few different circuits. What do I need to know about interference between circuits within a multi-conductor cable?
Some of the wires will carry stepper ...
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What exactly are 'pins'?
I actually ran into this question just a few moments ago:
http://serverfault.com/questions/12025/intro-to-laptop-hard-drives
The first answer is the one that caught my attention.
Apparently, there ...
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Calculating the distance between 2 stations in a transfer [closed]
Station A sends \$1024 \times 10^{6}\$ bits of data to station B over a 1Gbps wired link. Station A sends the data in packets of \$8 \times 10^6\$ bits. The whole transfer took 100 seconds to ...
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Required Bandwidth for ASK
In Amplitude Shift Keying, the bandwidth required is given by \$B=(1+d)S\$ where B is bandwidth, S is the signal rate, and d is a value of either \$0\$ or \$1\$.
But how could the required bandwidth ...
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Relationship between sampling rate and number of levels/bits in PCM
It is said in the books that increasing the levels of quantisation codes in Pulse Code Modulation, or in other words increase the number of bits, could give a better signal.
I understand that having ...
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Where should an increase in harmonic frequencies go in the Nyquist formula?
From the Nyquist formula that \$ Capacity = 2 \times Bandwidth \times log_2(L) \$, where \$L\$ is the level the signal represents, the total number of possible bit combinations the signal can ...
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What is the theoretical maximum data transfer rate of a pair of wires in a phone cable?
Yesterday folks from my ISP came to install a 16 Mbps "Fiber to the Home" connection, but I noticed that the connection still comes in through the same two wires on our phone jack.
Could that same ...
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Why all digital signals have infinite bandwidth?
Why digital signals have "infinite bandwidth"? Frequency is the number of cycles per second. I have seen before the formula that bandwidth=Maximum Frequency - Minimum Frequency. I remember I was told ...
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What are Discrete and Continue Frequencies?
When it says "Periodic Digital Signal is composed of periodic composite analogue signal with infinite bandwidth with discrete frequencies" and "Non-periodic Digital Signal is composed of non-periodic ...
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Why Periodic Signals has only integer frequencies but non-periodic does not?
Why does a periodic signal only has integer frequency values while a non-periodic one has all real numbers as frequency values?
The frequency is just the number of times one full cycle has happened ...
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What solutions, if any, are there for visible light transmission (VLC)?
I want to know what ways are there to transmit data using LED's that are available to us today.
I currently can find only one reasonable resource for this topic, which is this:
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