Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
Smoke Detector Alarm Reference Design
A smoke detector design that combines sensing, alarm, horn driver, temperature check, and communication in one unit, using fewer parts for fire and home...
5 Interesting Reference Designs For Display And GUI Applications
Building small, high-quality displays from scratch can be complex and time-consuming.These reference designs manage video, colour, and optics, reducing design time and effort.
When we...
Reference Design For Wearable ECG Systems
A reference board lets engineers capture clean heart signals by combining ECG, motion, and mechanical heart sensing in one patch.
Wearable ECG systems often fail...
Reference Design For Miniaturized Optical Heart Rate Monitor
This design enables design engineers to accelerate development, optimize power consumption, and ensure high signal integrity in next-generation biometric systems.
It is a compact optical...
AC Arc Fault Detection Reference Design For Circuit Breakers
Arc faults can pose a serious threat to electrical safety, but detecting them can be challenging. This reference design integrates fast current sensing, voltage...
Low-Power Health Monitor Band Reference Design For Wearables
This complete reference platform integrates sensitive biosignal detection, low-power processing, Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, and wireless charging, providing a proven blueprint for building reliable...
Low-Power Fitness Tracker Wearables Reference Design
This solution helps design engineers reduce development risk while delivering reliable biometric monitoring and seamless wireless data transmission.
Design engineers working on next-generation health and...
Traction Inverter Reference Design For LEVs
Facing range and motor control issues in light EVs? This inverter design claims to cut redesign work and speed up development. Read on to...
Wearable Oxygen And Heart Rate Monitor Reference Design
See your heart rate and blood oxygen anytime with a small wearable. It uses multiple sensors and sends data wirelessly, lasting long on a...
5 Interesting DALI‑Based LED Lighting Reference Designs
These DALI reference designs enable quick control, dimming, and testing of LED lighting without additional hardware or complex setup.
DALI (digital addressable lighting interface) has...
GUI Reference Design For Embedded Display Applications
It offers design engineers a ready-to-use, open hardware foundation for developing embedded graphical user interface (GUI) products, enables faster prototyping, reduced design risk, and...
Display Driver Shield Reference Design
Why do LED displays still feel limited? A design approach removes size, wiring, and power limits, helping engineers build displays faster.
Design engineers often face...
Guide For Engineers To Create Innovative, Manufacturable PCBs (Part 3)
Bringing a modern PCB design together into reality is often the real test. The third part of this series offers practical insights to streamline...
Accelerating Embedded Touchscreen GUI Reference Design
By combining proven hardware architectures with reusable graphics software, it helps engineers cut development time, reduce system complexity, and deliver intuitive, visually rich interfaces...
Automotive Infotainment Display Module Reference Design
Cold starts, voltage drops, and multiple power rails can break automotive displays. This design shows a simple, reliable way to keep them running safely.
Automotive...
Audio Pre-Processing System Reference Design
The design helps you capture voice in noise, reduce background sounds, and run voice recognition locally or through the cloud for devices and apps.
Capturing...
Reference Design For DALI Slave Lighting Control
It highlights the DALI interface, protocol handling, and LED drive control needed for reliable dimming, individual fixture addressing, and seamless integration into modern building...
LED Driver With DALI Dimming Reference Design
Tired of tricky LED driver problems? See a design that makes dimming efficiency and protection easy all in one ready to use solution.
The DER-660...