My Reading Bucket List

November 2024

BMS

• Battery Management System Basic -Concepts.

Oscillator Selection

• Types of Crystal Oscillator -Concepts.
• Crystal Working and it's parameter - Concepts 
• OSC output waveform - Useful while debugging.
• Understanding the Drive Level of Crystal Oscillators - Concepts.
• TI: Crystal specs related calculation - Concpets.
  

Schematics & PCB Design

• why GND vias to improve PCB layout performance? - Tutorial.
• Designing better with KiCAD - Tutorial. 
• Script to download schematics symbol/footprint/3d-model - Tools
  

September 2024

Linux

• Basics of I2C on linux OS -Talk

Motor Design

• Interior permanent magnet motor - simulation

Motor Control Applications

• Easy visual understanding of SVPWM - Conecpts. 
• Understand the switching pattern of SVPWM - Concepts.
• SVPWM, SPWM, Inverters by IIT-D (starting 10 lectures) - Concepts. 
• Sensorless FOC of BLDC PMSM motors, One of the best MS thesis on this topic by Jemes Mevey - concepts.
• FOC concepts, python simulator - simulations.
• FOC concepts, C++ simulator - simulations.
• FOC concepts, MATLAB simulator, also check github embedded we link - simulations.
• FOC concepts, FEMM simulations - simulations.
• Blog on FOC and FEMM - simulations
  

Tools

• Sigrok, PulseView: Better alternative of Salae Logic analyzer software
  

August 2024

Tools

• Tracy Profiler: How to debug your threaded application
• Tools to understand your code size and optimize the firmware
  

Learning new technologies

• Digi-Key CEC: Design News
  

Projects for Learning the low power designs

• Building a Living Room Clock with ESP32-C6 ULP - Hackware v8.3 - Concepts.

Unit Testing

• Balancing Test Coverage vs. Overhead - Concepts.
• Embedded C/C++ Unit Testing Basics - Concepts.

Bluetooth Low Energy

• Bluetooth Low Energy: A Primer - Conecpts.
• A Practical Guide to BLE Throughput - Concepts.
  

Making Reliable Embedded systems

• Understanding Battery Performance of IoT Devices - Conecpts. 
• A Schematic Review Checklist for Firmware Engineers - Concepts.
• Considerations when Building Embedded Databases - Concepts.
• Best practices in firmware - concepts.
• Low-Power Optimization Techniques for ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers - Concepts.
• A Guide to Watchdog Timers for Embedded Systems - Concepts.
• Building a Tiny CLI Shell for Tiny Firmware | Interrupt - Concepts.
  

July 2024

Power Converters

• Switch Mode Power Supply - Conecpts.

Motor Control Applications

• High power motor drivers - by crablabs.

Till Feb. 2021

Motor Control Applications

• STM32 Motor Control - Overview of applications.
• GNU MCU Eclipse - ARM target development guide.
• Things-in-motion - BLDC motor insights.
• AVDweb - Automotive technologies.
• Avislab - STM32 and motor control.
• Pedelec Forum - Automotive discussions.
• mikrocontroller.net - Embedded systems resources.
• Endless Sphere - Electric vehicle community.
• Pedelec Forum Wiki - EV technology guides.
• FOC Slides - Presentation on Field Oriented Control.
• Benjamin Robotics - VESC information.
• Sensorless BLDC - Control techniques.
• MIT Rocket Science - Hall sensor placement.
• Shane Colton's Blog - Embedded systems and motor control.
• Eto the i Pi Plus One - DIY EV projects.

MOSFET

• Connecting MOSFETs in Parallel - Issues and solutions.
• MOSFET In-Depth - Gate resistance, pull-down resistance, ON/OFF time, and temperature.

Circuit Protection

• Reverse Polarity Protection - Techniques and implementations.

Electronics

• Electronic System Design - Comprehensive guide.
• Electronic Circuits - Detailed coursework.
• Electronics Handout - University of Kansas materials.
• Project LEAP - Hands-on electronics projects.
• Tahmid's Blog - Microcontroller and power electronics.
• Basic Electronics for Automotive - Circuit designs and applications.

Computer Programming

• Pointers by freeCodeCamp.org - Comprehensive tutorial.
• Data Structures by freeCodeCamp.org - Detailed explanation.
• Preventing Overflow - Techniques and best practices.

Arduino

• Software I2C Tutorial - Step-by-step guide.

ARM Development

• STM32 Software Development - Russian resource.
• STM32CubeID Tutorial - ProgrammerSought.com guide.

FreeRTOS

• FreeRTOS Tutorial - Digi-Key YouTube series.
• Reference Manual - FreeRTOS.org.
• Hands-On Tutorial Guide - FreeRTOS.org.

Windows

• PowerShell Tutorial - YouTube series.
• MSYS2 Overview - Creating a Unix-like environment on Windows.

Store for Open source Projects

Most of the projects at this website/store are open source. Explore them.

Good explanation on "how does the voltage of USB drop as the current drawn increases?" link

Robotics Related Tools

• Openocd
• Motor control
• Control theory
• Cmake
• Templated C++
• GDB
• Linux Yocto
• ARM Cortex M4
• ROS
• Stm32plus
• serialplot

Interview Corner

1. Good collection of puzzles
2. List of questions for embedded firmware engineers

Links for Downloading Books

1. Index for all the IT-related books click here

State Chart/Flow Chart/UML Generation

1. How to generate using PlantUML

Benchmarking/Performance Measuring Tools

1. Linux perf
2. Callgrind
3. Google Benchmark
4. Godbolt