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ELECTRIC vs PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS
Choosing the Right Muscle for Your Machine A practical, engineer's-eye guide to picking between electric and pneumatic linear actuators and why Actuonix electrics are the right call for most precision builds. Every automated machine needs something that actually does the moving the part that pushes a gate shut, lifts a valve, extends a gripper, or nudges a part into place. That job almost always falls to a linear actuator. The two workhorses in this space are electric and pne
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Sep 105 min read
SF600Plus-G2 SPI NOR/NAND Flash Programmer: A Practical Deep Dive
Most Embedded design that boots from an external SPI NOR or NAND flash device eventually runs into the same operational question: how do you get firmware onto that chip quickly, reliably, and repeatably — during bring-up, in a production line, and in the field for rework or recovery? DediProg's SF600Plus-G2 is built specifically to answer that question. What the SF600Plus-G2 Is The SF600Plus-G2 is a high-speed serial NOR and NAND flash programmer that supports two operating
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Sep 95 min read
PRESTO vs FORTE : Choosing the Right ASIX Programmer for AVR, PIC, TI & PSoC® MCUs
Two USB in-circuit serial programmers from ASIX — same software ecosystem, same GO button, very different silicon under the hood. Here's what matters when you must pick one. Two Tools, One Software Stack ASIX has offered a pair of USB programmers for over a decade — PRESTO (on the market since 2004) and the higher-end FORTE (introduced in 2012). Both support hundreds of microcontrollers, serial EEPROMs, Flash chips, CPLDs, and FPGAs. Both run on the same UP software suite und
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Sep 96 min read
The USB-C 20G Loopback Plug
A simple way to test, benchmark, and diagnose USB-C ports — USB4 compatible, up to 20 Gb/s USB-C ports may look identical, but their performance can vary significantly. Some ports operate slower than expected, while others may drop data without warning. Occasionally, a port may work well initially but fail under heavy use. The USB-C 20G Loopback Plug is a compact, pocket-sized tool that quickly identifies these issues. Just plug it into any USB-C port, run a test, and receive
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Jun 304 min read
MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS
Closing the Loop: A Practical Guide to the Actuonix LAC Board with P-Series Linear Actuators Position-controlling a linear actuator sounds simple until you reach for the soldering iron. A P-series Actuonix unit already knows where it is; the trouble is acting on that knowledge. This is the board that does it for you, and this is how it wires up on the bench. Figure 1 — The Actuonix LAC board, labelled per the datasheet: the X1–X6 connectors and the P1–P3 trim pots (Speed, Lim
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Jun 198 min read
Decoding I3C, Two Wires at a Time
A field guide to the Binho I3C Basic Protocol Analyzer for Saleae Logic I3C squeezes dynamic addressing, in-band interrupts, hot-join and 12.5 MHz transfers onto the same two wires as I²C. That power is exactly what makes it painful to debug. Here’s how a logic-analyzer plugin turns raw bus edges back into readable transactions. An I3C capture decoded: raw SCL/SDA edges resolved into a labeled transaction — Start, address, ACK, CCC, payload, Stop. (Illustrative, not bit-acc
Uchi Embedded Solutions
Jun 196 min read
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