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Need design advice for a simple electronics project (microcontroller + wires + transistors)

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€18-40 EUR / hour

I need some design advice for my first electronics project: The goal is to control the power supply of the indidual bays of a hard drive backblane. [[ See attached image first ]] The MCU should control 15 identical switches. Communication between the MCU and the host PC should happen via USB. USB should also be be used for the power supply. The whole design should be optimized for minimum power consumption. Min. 2 extra output pins of the MCU should kept unused to allow for future extensions. Open questions: - What's a suitable MCU? Maybe a Digispark (ATtiny85) with two cascaded 74HC595 shift registers to achieve the required number of output pins? Or maybe another ATtiny with more native output pins like the ATtiny4313? Are there any suitable minimalistic, Digispark-like ATtiny development boards with more output pins and USB support? - What's a suitable transistor? I'd like to buy and assemble the parts by myself. I'd also like to do the programming.
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Hello. I'm a hardware engineer and PCB designer. You may check my qualification the profile I will provide scheme with BOM for your task. We can discuss any question, I believe we can have a good cooperation
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Hi, I am a post graduate power electronics engineer and having very good experience in product design and development. I am excellent in embedded design & programming using pic, dspic controllers and MATLAB codding for Power projects, Boot loaders, Bluetooth & GPS designs,CAN communication, EEprom. UART , RF circuits ,Protocols for networking, wi-Fi routers,OBD diagnosis with CAN bus protocols, Electrical vehicles and AC drives, stepper motor controls. I designed sine wave inverters for standalone and grid tie Inverters. I designed projects like Off line UPS up to 3 KVA, 5kW motor controller for EV,synchronous rectifiers, Solar MPPT chargers, Solar trackers, Battery chargers ,Grid tie inverters design with PLL and feedback control circuit emergency light of 66W and Online UPS control cards, Battery Charging power supplies, LED drivers for PWM controlling and dimming, SMPS, Power supplies. I have experience in schematics and PCB design experience in Altium and ORCAD. I am ready to work for you. Please contact for further discussion.
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Hi Sir, we are best in electronics and specially power electronics. Lets talk to us on your projects. You can check our profile. you will get confidence. We are professional engineers and developers who do such projects from the last eight years. We offer you our skills for this project at very low rates comparatively without compromising the quality of work. Let me introduce you to our company TURKTRONICS. We are TURKTRONICS. We are professionals with 8+ years of experience in Circuit designs, PCB designs, embedded system solutions, mobile app development, programming and software development. We provide complete end to end solutions for all kind of development projects. IOT is our strong point. In this bid, prototyping and shipping cost is not included however paying extra slight of money to include prototypes. We have collaboration with Atechcircuits & WELLS Inc in Shenzhen China for excillent quality PCB manufacturing. We care about our clients and help them to get out of any potential problem throughout the projects and also give post completion technical support if ever required. We are very much looking forward to hear from you on this in coming days! Cheers!!! Ahmad Lead Technical Engineer TURKTRONICS An Internet of Things Company !
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Hi I am interested to your project. I am familiar with electronics, microcontroller as well as PCB design by Eagle. Thanks.
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Hello there! Hope you doing good! If you still need this to be done, be sure to contact me. Lets make something awesome! Greetings!
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Hello Sir Atmega328 will be a great mcu for this use with out any shift registers it'll do the job easy and will be easy at programming for you we can build our usb communication protocol from pc to our atmega the power will be from the usb port I have proficiency in following software tools: I'll give you that 1-PCB layout 2-Wiring 3-code 4-Manual for wiring 5-Manual for how to program it and development it Electrical circuit design Arduino IDE pcb design microcontroller programming ,interface plc programming scada system design Siemens S7 programming Electrical circuit simulation thermal control system building circuit (low energy control) bluetooth NodeMCU programming IOT (internet of things) Mplab(x) IDE micro C IDE PCB manufacturing Feel free to contact me for more discuss Thanks Mohamed
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I have 2+years of exeperiance as an embedded developer.I have done many projects using different controllers like 8051/PIC16/PIC18/Arduino/ARM LPC2148 etc. If you will assign me this task i can do on 10 Euro/hr or any fixed price you want !
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Hi communications in german is possible and wellcome for me. I think with some external components it should be possible to controll 15 transinstors with less Pins, have to think a few minutes how that was done in a gold way... about the mcu: did you ever try out the MSP430 from Texas Instruments? It is told to be a very low power consuming mcu... for transistors I would suggest MOSFET types, as they are voltage driven and not current driven, that means less power wasted... best regards Thomas
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Hello, I can used ATtiny famely, or STM8, and i can assebly for you devices I have many years of experience in the development of electronics. I can prepare all the technical documentation for mass production. Also fulfill all conditions for certification CE, FCC and ROHS compliance. PCB layout and Circuit Design (Altium or KiCad) I develop compact solutions, and use the new component base and surface mount components. I can show examples, add me to Skype - ivanchuba or email. I'm calculating the minimum cost of BOM at the time of development. Also I can make the necessary number of industrial prototypes. Best regards
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I am product development Engineer, worked for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical fields. From planning phase to Testing and verification phase Skill set High speed design, analog design,power design. Relevant Skills and Experience Hand full of experience of 14years on All kinds of interfaces and communication protocols, Microcontroller and high speed FPGA
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I am make new new circut and device not other copy
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I am an Electrical Engineer with experience in digital electronics. There are a variety of MCU that are miniature that you can utilise for your project such as aduino uno, Raspberry pi other development boards are still available to use USB protocol for communication with a computer. it's will utilise type A USB plug for communication with the MCU and will also utilise it for 5V supply (on pin 1 and pin 4) . The differential data will be defined by pin 2 and 3. Further information will be provided when the project is rewarded.
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I have over 40 years of experience in embedded microprocessr/microcontroller design and programming. I also have a Master's in Electrical Engineering for whatever that is worth. I have been designing embedded systems and circuit boards since 1977. My skills have all been kept up to date. I currently use KiCad as my primary CAE tool and most of my embedded work is using ST Micro STM32F and STM32L Low Power ARM Cortex M series microcontrollers. My first recommendationt for anyone serious about learning embedded design is to avoid the Arduino ecosystem like the plauge. If you are serious about embedded hardware you need to know what is going on at the register level and need a development environment that allows line by line hardware code debugging. Fortunately the STM32 ecosystem has free software devellopment and debugging tools like Atollic TrueStudio, STM32CubeMX and STMStudio as well as very low cost development platforms with much more speed, memory and I/O than Arduino platforms. An STM32F103Cx based "Blue Pill" board and STLink V2 programmer /debugger combined will set you back less than !0 euros. I already have extensively commented open source sample tutorial code on my github site at github / celeritous. The board mentioned above has USB and sufficient I/O plus spares for your described project. That much is free advice. I can assist you as much or as little as you like. My current work load would limit me to about 10 hours max a week.
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Respected Client, I read with interest your posting for device controller USB. I believe I possess the necessary skills and experience you are seeking and would make a valuable addition to your company. I possess more than eight years of progressive experience in this field. My professional history includes positions such as Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer at Gigatek Electronics. Most recently, my responsibilities as Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer at Gigatek Electronics match the qualifications you are seeking. I assisted in the successful completion of IoT and RF based applications. My supervisor also relied on my ability to develop and work with device control.I can attach my resume for your review and I look forward to speaking with you further regarding your available position. Sincerely, ANIL TANDON
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I am an Analog/Mixed-signal Design Engineer with over than 7 years of industrial experience in CMOS IC Design. Participated in over 10 projects with high volume productions. Experienced in complete product development from initial conception through design, verification, fabrication & testing. Extensive experience of working with different teams across the world (Canada, Europe, Egypt, Macau, India). TECHNICAL SKILLS: • Analog/mixed-signal engineer with a primary focus on the design of high-speed serial interfaces (HSIC, USB 2.0, USB 3.0). • Transistor level design and layout supervision of analog building blocks (SERDES, PLL, High-Speed TX/RX, Crystal Oscillators, full on-chip Precision Current/Voltage References, Multipliers, Opamps, Comparators, Level-Shifters, Voltage Regulators, I/O.). • Experience in deep submicron planar CMOS (from 90nm down to 20nm) and FinFet (16nm, 10nm, 7nm) analog design for the most fabs and processes.
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I did my BS Engineering from Moscow Engineering & Physics University in 1995, Russia. I did my MS in Engineering Management from UET Lahore, a HEC recognized university. I have previously worked with in Micro Electronics International (Pvt. Ltd.), PEL & University of the Punjab. I have total 19 years experience related to your task. I humbly request that you kindly consider me for any suitable post related to my experience and qualification. My experience and skills shall make your organization more productive.
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Dear, You can nail the project with a few useful advice. The smaller MCU with the two 74HC595 works well. The switching transistor should be PNP BJT or P-type MOSFET like IRF9540. NPN BJT as shown in your picture is not efficient for that purpose. If you have further question, please ask me regardless of business. Regards, Joshua Kim skype: joshua.kim-0827
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