Pallav Aggarwal

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Founder, CAPUF Embedded

Welcome to my blog. I am a hobbyist turned embedded systems design consultant, deeply in love with electronics for more than two decades. 

On this blog, I share technical articles, teardowns, tutorial to help the community.


I am running an Embedded Design House, CAPUF Embedded Pvt. Ltd, located in Bangalore, India

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We help companies build embedded product with our hardware and firmware design services.

We also help in design optimizations for power-consumption, cost, mass manufacturing, performance.

Additionally, we develop PCB testing jigs and provide cloud-based monitoring solution.

The platforms we work on are STM32, nRF52/53 Wireless SoC, Apollo3, Apollo4 MCU, ESP8266, ESP32, CH32V003, CH32V207, CH32V307, NXP, Microchip, Embedded Linux System-on-Modules, etc.


If you are planning to build a new hardware product, please learn what are the steps involved. Read this article on hardware development for the insights.

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Invited to The AMP Hour Podcast (#661)

Listen to the full podcast. I hope you will enjoy listening to the conversation where I discussed a varity of topics like AI in Electronics, Joulescope, Saleae Logic Analyzer, Make In India, Ambiq Micro Apollo3, etc. It was fun speaking with Chris Gammel.

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Latest Blog Posts:

Hardware Teardown of a Water Flow Meter

Water scarcity is already a global challenge, and it will strongly influence wide adoption of water metering in the coming years. Water scarcity from climate change, population growth, and groundwater depletion is rising. Water flow…

Inside the Google Chromecast: A Complete Teardown Analysis

The Google Chromecast revolutionized how we stream content to our televisions, transforming any HDMI-capable display into a smart TV. This compact dongle, no bigger than a USB flash drive, packs impressive technology into its minimalist…

Teardown of Arctic Fox Bluetooth Speaker

Recently, I purchased a portable Bluetooth speaker from Arctic fox, speaker is a general purpose Bluetooth speaker with battery back up. It can store around 100 songs and a joystick is provided to play, pause,…

Teardown of Timer Smart Plug (Made In India)

Recently, we purchased a Timer Smart plug for our office use as we wanted to test one equipment that needs to be tested for a particular time period and then should be put off. There…

HQDFM: Free PCB DFM Analysis tool

HQDFM from NextPCB is a free to use PCB DFM analysis software to check manufacturability issues. It is very easy to use, just import your Gerber files and easily visualize your design and verify if your…

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