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Getting Started with OrCAD
What is OrCAD? For those who don’t know, OrCAD is a circuit design software suite designed by Cadence Design Systems. OrCAD is one of the big four with a 29% market share according to the below slide from Altium 2016 presentation. According to my own experience, I see a lot of designs with OrCAD. I…
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My Favorite Schematics Font, Courier New
I just wanted to dedicate this post to express my admiration of the font Courier New and how elegant it looks on schematics. NON NDA violating excerpt from one of my designs for illustration purpose 😀
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THE AMP HOUR, My Favorite Podcast
I’m a seasonal podcast person, some times I’d follow a podcast then I get fed-up, the exception here is THE AMP HOUR which I follow weekly. One thing that I really like about THE AMP HOUR is that it is not just a technical podcast, but rather a chat about the industry. this makes it…
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Ordering PCBs from JLCPCB+DHL to Egypt
Jlcpcb is getting very popular now, they are very cheap and the PCB quality is good (as agreed by many reviewers). You can check their manufacturing capability on their website. For my order which was about 85mm X85mm four-layer board, and anything under 100mm X100mm, you get an offer of 5 PCBs for 28$. The process…
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Learn to Design Your Own Board, Course Review
The past months I was trying to figure out the sort of engineering I want to pursue and saw that I have general enthusiasm in hardware and PCB design. in the past, I’ve made some hardware but nothing industrial. I used to use KiCad which is Open Source, while cool to use, not used in…
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مشكله تدريس نظريه التحكم
نظريه التحكم تعانى من مشاكل كثيره فى التدريس فى كلياتنا, مما ينفر الطلبه منها, واخرون يقللون من شأنها, مبدأيا دعنا نتفق انك لن تكون” مهندس ” بدون فهم المفاهيم الخاصه بها, هذا ليس ادعائى طبعاً, الماده ايضا تدرس لجميع تخصصات الهندسه والعلوم تقريبا. يكمن جزء كبير من المشكله فى وضع الكثير من الاساسيات فى مكانها…
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‘Fundamentals of Power’ a course from Energy University
I’ve been taking some Energy University courses for a while now, they are good to give you basic idea about field related skill. the course Fundamentals of Power talks about many power quality issues and general terms related to Data Centers power, it is a good refresher for the basics.
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Austin Hughes ‘Electric Motors and Drives’ Book Review
مؤخرا انتهيت من قراءه معظم كتاب Electric Motors and Drives, لم اكن انوى قرائته بشكل كامل فى البدايه لكن الكتاب جيد لدرجه جعلتنى اقرأ معظمه, وخصوصا لاهتمامى بهذا المجال. لذا اردت ان اتكلم عنه قليلا. يبدأ الكتاب ب Preface ممتاز جدا يتحدث فيه عن الطريقه التى تم بها تقديم الماده العلميه, حيث انه يتخذ اسلوب…
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الاحمال غيرالخطيه
الحمل الغير خطى هو ببساطه حمل لايسحب من المنبع الكهربى تيار جيبى, الاحمال المكونه من المقاومات والمكثقات والملفات هى احمال خطيه حيث ان التيار دائما يكون جيبى,اما الاحمال الغير خطيه هى احمال لاتسحب تيار جيبى برغم ان مصدر الجهد جيبي بدأت هذه النوعيه من الاحمال تظهر فى حدود 1960 مع بدايه ظهور الثايرستور وخلافه فى التطبيقات…
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About Wikipedia
the real power of Wikipedia for me is not in the transcript itself except for some gifs and animations, most often I open Wikipedia for topics related to my study. the most useful part is references and external links, many times I find gems there if it wouldn’t for Wikipedia I wouldn’t find them. I actually many…