Two days PCB Design and Fabrication workshop at SVNCE

PCB workshop was conducted in SVNCE

Two days PCB Design Workshop in TocH Institute of Science and Technology

Two days PCB design workshop is conducted in TocH Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam on 17th and 18th July 2014, by Visionics India Pvt Ltd, Technopark ,Trivandrum.

Two days PCB Design Workshop in TocH Institute of Science and Technology

Two days PCB design workshop is conducted in TocH Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam on 17th and 18th July 2014, by Visionics India Pvt Ltd, Technopark ,Trivandrum.

Best branch of Engineering

There are many queries concerning the area of studies in the field of Engineering . The best branch is Electronics Engineering and its allied branches. Apart from conventional branches, electronics is the basis of all newer equipments, like computers, communication equipments, radar, TV, radio, telephone, fax machines, modems, mobile phones etc. All are based on electronics.

Visionics India Pvt Ltd celebrates 19th Anniversary in Technopark

Visionics India Pvt Ltd, one of the first companies to start operations in Technopark, has completed 19 years of operations in Technopark. On behalf of all the employees, we are proud to salute Visionics, the Visual Electronics Company as we celebrate our 19th anniversary- a joint venture by Norlinvest, Sweden, and Alpha-Imager, Bangalore. Visionics has over 30 years’ experience in developing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) packages. 

EDWinXP (PCB Designing and SPICE-based software) is the main product of Visionics. It was on February 14, 1995, that Visionics India started operations in Technopark’s “Periyar” building. With its Principal office at Stockholm, Sweden, the company also has development centres in Russia, Estonia, and Japan. The Trivandrum centre is focused on R&D, marketing and sales for Asia-Pacific region, and technical support and training to customers across the world. 

QR CODES

QR CODES

QR code is a type of barcode which can be read by devices such as smart phones. It was invented by Toyota’s subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process. Its design was made such that it allowed high speed scanning of components. Being internationally standardized under ISO 18004, they can store up to 4296 characters. The Denso Waves holds the patent rights but the use of QR codes is license free.

QR codes are two dimensional, that is, information can be stored in both horizontal as well as vertical directions. They support special characters like Kanji etc., along with numeric, alphanumeric and binary data. The data encoded in the QR code can be text, website URL, e-mail address, contact information or SMS.

Barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached like product packaging or containers. Barcodes can store information only in the horizontal direction.

QR Codes vs. Barcodes

·         QR codes have high capacity and can encode several hundred times as much data as a barcode.

·         QR codes can represent the data in 1/30^th of the space required by a barcode.

·         Supports 360° high speed reading whereas barcode only supports horizontal reading.

·      QR codes can recover up to 30% of damaged code words whereas reading of damaged barcodes is impossible.

·   QR codes can effectively encode Japanese characters (Kanji) whereas barcodes encode only alphanumeric characters.

The smallest dot of a QR code is called a module. The resolving power of the cameras used to scan the code is the determiner of its minimum dimension. However the recommended minimum size is 32 x 32mm² (1.25 x 1.25inch²). A good contrast between the colour of the background and the dots is very important in order to ensure good reader accuracy.

The larger the QR code the easier it is for it to be scanned. The file formats used for creating a QR code are – HTML code, PNG file, Tiff file, SVG and EPS. PNG files work well as they can be easily resized.

Product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, inventory control, advertising etc., are some of the applications of QR codes.

QR code system includes a QR code printer and a QR code scanner. To generate QR codes, a special printer and QR code creation software is required. There are three position detection patterns – top left, top right and bottom right corners of the matrix. Factors to be considered while determining the size of a QR code is – symbol version, data capacity, character type, error correction level and module size.

·         Symbol Versions – Symbol versions of QR codes range from 1 (21x 21 modules) to 40 (177 x 177 modules). Each version has maximum data capacity which depends on the amount of data, type of characters and the error correction level. Hence, more the data stored, the larger the size of the QR code.

·         Error Correction Level – The user can retrieve data from a damaged QR code with the help of error correction. QR codes have four levels of error correction – L, M, Q and H – which can be chosen by the user at the time of creation.

Level L = 7%

Level M = 15%

Level Q = 25%

Level H = 30%

Higher error correction level implies increase in percentage of code words used for error correction and thereby decreases the amount of data that can be stored inside the code.

·         Character Type – The actual amount of characters that can be stored inside the code depends upon the complexity of the characters.

 Limitations of QR Codes

There is a method named “attagging” one word for “attack tagging” using which one can combine malicious QR codes with the reader which can put the user’s contents and privacy at risk. There is no way to know whether the code is genuine. QR codes can be used to gain full access to a smart phone. QR codes require connection to the internet to give information. Another major disadvantage is its dependability on smart phones, if one does not have a smart phone, QR codes are not at all beneficial to them and not all phones with camera support the correct reader software.

2 days workshop on Simulation and PCB design in Vijnan Institute of Science and Technology, Elenji

2 days workshop was conducted in Vijnan Institute of Science and Technology based on Simulation and PCB Design. The workshop gave insightful ideas in the field of simulation and PCB design. 48 students participated from the fourth semester of the Electronics and Communication department.