at 29.00 an electronic rotary converter

Screw it, I'll just order those MOSFETS from Huawei and say they're to fix my grandmother's television.

"Atom Bombs" By Adam Baum, 2018

I also want to know what processor that ECU is running.
how complex is the firmware and what architecture does a car engine controller use?

I need one of those FPGA, can somebody send me one please? 🙂 they are so expensive here in Col. 🙁

i got a FPGA kit my school was donating a few days ago – its the altium live design kit with a spartan-3 on it. I watched your video on FPGA's a while back and am still a bit intimidated by the programming but i will mess with it later. Maybe wire my wall up with monitors?

I know you can use audio via headphone jack to send data, but since when can you SEND audio/data audio via the headphone jack to the computer?

I think I heard some where that here in the UK it is against the law to look at the plans for the Little Boy and the Fat man under the national secrets act even though they are American designs and the Americans declassified them. Arrested under the national secrets act for looking at declassified information. Go figure.

I don't know if it is true, but it is not something I would like to challenge considering you could go into prison for the rest of your life for terrorism. shrugs

EdFact: The sound sensor they mention in "modern cars" in the manual to Edison, is call a 'knock sensor'. Signal from the knock sensor is fed to the ECU to monitor ignition timing / firing of the spark plug.

EEVblog Dave, since you (once again) made a cynical snark about the square trace routing, could you perhaps make a short followup to your circuit design tutorials and explain why and when to use which kinds of trace styles? Perhaps waste a few lines on reflections and such annoying newbie traps…

I'm sure this is way too late, but the core i7-4770k & up will outperform this chip in all but the most heavily multi-threaded applications, even at their stock clock speeds. Fortunately, with their unlocked multipliers, they also have a great deal of overclocking headroom. I'm running a 4770k, which is normally clocked @ 3.5 GHz, at 4.4 GHz using a Noctua air cooler and a bunch of big, slow-spinning 120 mm case fans. I only had to bump vcore up to 1.25 volts to get the system rock-solid stable under 100% load.

That knife xD

You sir… are a true Australian.