Reference Designs
“Industry-grade DIY Projects”—that’s perhaps the best way to describe what Reference Designs are. Or, you can define them as “complete, tested blueprints and working models for a specific electronic device or system.”
In this section, we have found and shared 100s of such blueprints, which enable engineers and DIYers like yourself to save significant time and resources in designing new products since they provide everything you need to get started including: schematics, software, PCB layout files, and BoM!
48V Zone Reference Design
Cars are moving to 48V power systems. A new design shows how power can flow easily, use less wiring, and still run old 12V...
Wireless Smoke Detector Reference Design
It provides design engineers with a practical architecture, hardware components, and firmware framework for developing reliable and scalable fire-safety devices used in smart homes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DALI-2 Lighting System Reference Design
Building smart lights is tricky. This platform makes it easy to test, control, and automate multiple lights, so engineers can focus on creating new...