Author: Ryan Portocarrero

2-D Airfoil Simulation

Computational fluid dynamic is the tool of choice when dealing with anything involving motion, air, and water. CFD enables highly accurate fluid flow simulations. Unfortunately,

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Floating Point Numbers

What is a floating-point number? Digital computers represent numbers in binary form. That is, using values of high or low voltages that represent a “1”

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Digital Logic: Adders

Binary Arithmetic is a basic operation that makes digital computations possible. It is one of the primary operations of the Arithmetic Logical Unit that is

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How Lasers Work

Lasers have many uses in our modern world. From measuring fluid flow and reading barcodes, to steering lightning bolts and initiating fusion, lasers are a

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Passive Low-Pass Filter Design

Contents What do Starbucks, airliners, and stock markets have in common? Filtering! Filtering is essential for making coffee as well as many scientific and engineering

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Servo Controller Design

Contents This article will assume that you already know how to use Quartus Prime development software for the Intel/Altera Family of FPGAs. If you need

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