Electronic Design Services

An Easier Verification Method for FPGA Designs

By Steve Miller | Sep 27, 2013

Recently, Senior Design Engineer Steve Miller was working on an FPGA design project that required taking multiple video inputs and processing them in real-time through an FPGA. Some of the necessary c...

5 Tips for Creating Effective Schematics

By Lindsay Farlow | Sep 23, 2013

Creating a great schematic is more than just producing a technically correct netlist. Ideally, your schematic should be organized in a way that’s easy for others to review and understand. Even someo...

iPad App Development: The Making of An Angry Moose

By Gwyneth Saldanha | Sep 8, 2013

By now many people have heard of Angry Moose, the geeky game that draws crowds of engineers and fans wherever it goes. It’s a real-life version of a popular iOS game, but with a Canadian twist. The ...

Beginning Projects With Nuvation: Top 5 FAQ

By Michael Hermann | Sep 5, 2013

In our last post, we discussed the Initial Design Engagement (IDE), the first phase of electronic product development at Nuvation Engineering. During this phase of a client project, we gather requirem...

More Tips for Photographing Electronic Designs

By Mark Bingeman | Sep 3, 2013

In part 1 Principal Design Engineer Mark Bingeman shared some helpful tips for capturing a great picture of your electronic product design. Here is how you can improve the quality of your photo even f...

DiscoFish Drive-by-wire Design

By Lindsay Farlow | Aug 30, 2013

Previously, we wrote about DiscoFish’s autonomous driving capabilities. Once autonomous driving was up and running we decided to also implement drive-by-wire, so that a person could also drive the F...

Taking Great Pictures of Electronic Designs

By Mark Bingeman | Aug 26, 2013

Once you’ve completed a circuit board or product design, you will often want to take pictures of it. Sometimes it’s for marketing material or documentation purposes, and other times you’re proud...

Thinking Outside the Chamber: A MacGyver Solution for Temperature Testing

By Christopher Coronel | Aug 5, 2013

Highly Accelerated Stress Screening, also known as HASS testing, is a method for testing the reliability of a product by exposing it to stresses beyond what it would encounter in normal use. The testi...

Power Supply Design Basics: Passive PFC Design

By Nuvation | Jul 18, 2013

Previously we introduced the concept of the Power Factor. Now we’re discussing what Power Factor Correction (PFC) is, and one of two types of PFC for your power supply design. Power Factor Correc...

Power Supply Design Basics: The Power Factor

By Nuvation | Jul 16, 2013

In many products, devices are used to transform AC mains power to a different operating voltage. Power supply design is a crucial step in architecture development, as it can truly make or break a prod...