The wind is favorable for setting sail; one does not wait for the whip to spur the horse! Time flies, and 2025 is already half over. In this half year, all staff at Zhongke Core have anchored their goals and moved forward with determination, deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress … Read more
Anyone who has purchased any materials on the principles and applications of the 818 microcontroller can obtain the monthly self-test papers and answers for free. The September exam paper has a full score of 150 points, covering six major question types: fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, hardware circuits, short answer, program design, and system design, comprehensively assessing … Read more
Hello everyone! Today, we are going to discuss a very practical topic—how to use the MIPI interface on iSilicon FPGAs. Whether it’s for camera image acquisition or display control, MIPI is a very common interface standard. Mastering it will greatly enhance your video project development efficiency! The iSilicon FPGA supports the use of the MIPI … Read more
Have you ever wondered why PLCs are so expensive (compared to control boards developed using STM32)? Why do they have such strong anti-interference capabilities? And why are they so stable?Today, let’s discuss these questions together, mainly from a hardware perspective!First, let’s take a look at the internal stacking structure of a PLC, as shown below:Generally … Read more
CPLD/FPGA Application Designer | Job Positioning 🌍 CPLD/FPGA Application Designer is a crucial role in the field of digital electronics and programmable logic, responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing complex digital systems.🔧 This position primarily targets high-tech fields such as communications, industrial automation, smart hardware, and aerospace, ensuring that programmable logic devices perform at their … Read more
This roadmap aims to assist beginners aspiring to build a career as an Embedded Engineer/Developer and help current practitioners expand their skills. Embedded engineering requires a deep understanding of hardware functionalities as well as software development and programming skills. If you truly want to pursue this career, you must be enthusiastic and passionate about it. … Read more
The Air8101 is a high-performance industrial engine that supports 2.4G WiFi6 and dual-mode Bluetooth (Classic Bluetooth and BLE 5.4). In addition, the Air8101 supports an Ethernet MAC interface—achieved through an RMII external PHY chip (such as LAN8720Ai), enabling 100Mbps Ethernet communication. This article mainly focuses on key considerations in the design of the external Ethernet … Read more
Recently, I reviewed the design materials for the Allwinner A733 and found that the performance of this SoC is quite impressive. The hardware design-related materials have been uploaded to a cloud drive for everyone to study and research, including schematics, PCB files, IBIS simulation models, and design guidelines. The Allwinner A733 is a high-performance octa-core … Read more
“ An interesting conversation between Sebe, the founder of TS Circuit, and Matt, the founder of Atopile, discussing how code reshapes hardware design and how AI accelerates innovation. It is worth listening to the entire conversation, which has been reshaped in Chinese for easier learning.” The following is a detailed briefing document of the podcast, … Read more
The I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) protocol was developed by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) and released in 1982. It is a serial, half-duplex bus primarily used for communication between chips over short distances at low speeds. The I²C bus consists of two bidirectional signal lines: one data line (SDA, serial data) for sending and receiving data, … Read more