It is now practical to write software for real-time systems long before the actual computer hardware is sitting in a physical prototype. In today’s world it is rare to find electromechanical devices ...

With fully interactive products now the norm, mechanical-control circuitry has emerged as an integral part of embedded-system design. Although designers have since the early days of electronics used ...

What does a mechanical engineer need to know about control theory? More than he did ten years ago. The same is true for electrical engineers and their understanding of mechanical dynamics. More and ...

I am primarily targeting analog novices in this upcoming tutorial series because I see a great many designers in our industry who have expertise in the more digital, processor and software side of ...

As field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) continue to drop in price while adding significant capability, their use has expanded greatly in industrial control and monitoring applications. And since ...

Most engineers are surprised to learn that the term mechatronics isnearly 40 years old. It was first used in1969 by Tetsuro Mori, anengineer at the Yaskawa Company, to describe a system composed ...