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This would have been really useful 6 months ago, when I was trying to figure out what on earth some Jetson tools actually did to build and flash an OS image.
Fuel NOx is only one of them, which you quite rightly point out is not dominant in methane combustion due to the rarity of nitrogen in the fuel.
The dominant source in methane combustion is thermal NOx, which forms due to the extreme temperature of the combustion, causing atmospheric nitrogen to decompose and react with atmospheric oxygen.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/documents/1....
It can receive DRM/AM/FM, with an integrated class-D amplifier.
Dev kits and modules available from Mouser: https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/CML-Micro/DRM1000?qs=...
DRM (no not that DRM--Digital Radio Mondiale) is a modern digital standard that promises much better spectral efficiency, power efficiency and range. See https://www.drm.org/. It is similar in concept to DAB, using an OFDM carrier, but with more robust error correction and equalisation, and lower bit rate codec to handle larger broadcast areas.
There is a hope that this could upgrade existing AM broadcast infrastructure, allowing rapid coverage of large areas without the expense of building out new towers.
The MW/HF bands are great for coverage because of the longer wavelength, relative to the VHF bands used for FM and DAB.
The cores themselves are asynchronous, with all of the benefits of lower power. The memories sitting outside of the cores are clocked, however.
I remember being a little bit disturbed by the temperature dependence of the chip on wall-clock execution time but it didn't affect our applications.
It was interesting to find this stuff as a product-ready platform.
That's just asking for problems.