Yahya Tawil

Embedded Hardware Engineer interested in open hardware and was born in the same year as Linux. Yahya is the editor-in-chief of Atadiat and believes in the importance of sharing free, practical, spam-free and high quality written content with others. His experience with Embedded Systems includes developing firmware with bare-metal C and Arduino, designing PCB&schematic and content creation.

May- 2020 -

23 May

Articles

Yahya Tawil
0 4,910

Buy One, Get Three: The Multi-function Instrument “Analog Discovery 2” Review

Special thanks to Digilent for providing their Swiss Army Knife device called “Analog Discovery 2” or simply AD2 for the…
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Apr- 2020 -

18 April

Articles

Yahya Tawil
4 3,549

A Gentle Practical Introduction to USB: Basics and Terms Explained!

I remember my first try to understand the basics of USB bus, tons of ambiguous terms here and there: descriptors,…
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Mar- 2020 -

14 March

Articles

Yahya Tawil
1 3,119

What is Flex PCB? — An Overview of Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB

The most common and used type of Printed Circuit Boards is the rigid type, but the flex one is another…
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Feb- 2020 -

19 February

Articles

Yahya Tawil
0 1,751

How to Use GIT to Manage Firmware Versions

“I swear I compiled and tested the firmware on my side and it was working … a couple hours/days later,…
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Apr- 2019 -

22 April

Micros

Yahya Tawil
3 10,486

How to Preserve A Variable in RAM between Software Resets

The Problem and The Solution in Theory The usual answer of “how to retain a variable in RAM through…
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Mar- 2019 -

25 March

Micros

Yahya Tawil
0 4,878

Getting Detailed Information of MCU Memory Usage from .map File

.map file, generated from GCC-toolchain, has almost all information needed to find memory usage in details. Symbols, including functions and…
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17 March

Micros

Yahya Tawil
4 4,327

The Easiest Way to Calculate Function Size in C

Unfortunately calculating function size is not as easy of finding variable size using sizeof() compile-time operator. There are numerous ways…
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Jan- 2019 -

27 January

Articles

Yahya Tawil
3 6,448

Embedded C Developers: To Hate Or Love C++? A Book Has The Answer

The story in short Surveys (.i.e Eclipse IoT Developer Survey & IEEE Spectrum Survey ) and current state show…
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Oct- 2018 -

27 October

Articles

Yahya Tawil
17 5,446

All about ESP32 – Part 4

All About ESP32 Parts Part 1: Overview, Tools and blinking LED Part 2: Logging and WiFi Basics Part 3: TCP…
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Sep- 2018 -

29 September

Articles

Yahya Tawil
3 13,767

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 101 Tutorial: Intensive Introduction

Bluetooth is quite known wireless protocol used intensively in mobile phones industry. Back in 2001, Sony Ericsson T36 mobile phone…
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