The latest automotive electronics boom has added many new features to engine control, entertainment, safety systems and more. In this very harsh environment that an automobile will experience, there are stringent features that need to be a part of any electronics devices is the system. At a minimum, any IC needs to see robust […]
Silent Switcher with high efficiency and low EMI/EMC Continue Reading
Toshiba has announced a new 20-megapixel (MP) 1.12-micron CMOS image sensor (CIS) for high-end mobile handsets and smartphones with 1080p resolution. With an optical height of 1/2.4 inch, the T4KA7 sensor enables the development of camera modules with a z-height of 6mm or less to meet consumer demand for ultrathin and ultralight mobile devices. The
A “Joule Thief” is a simple voltage booster circuit. It can increase the voltage of power source by changing the constant low voltage signal into a series of rapid pulses at a higher voltage. You most commonly see this kind of circuit used to power LEDs with a “dead” battery. But there are many more
Smart meters will only save 2% on consumers’ bills – an average £26 per household per year – according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – a committee of MPs – which disagrees with the opinion of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that smart meters will lower bills and make switching easier. “Smart
Aiming at cost-sensitive applications that need 32bit processing, to run stacks or process audio for example, Microchip has introduced a couple of cheaper MCU families, PIC32MX1xx and PIC32MX2xx, with MIPS M4K cores. 83Dmips is available at 50MHz, with up to 256kbyte flash and 64kbyte ram. “This enables embedded designs to implement functionality which includes digital
Description The LMR16006 is a PWM DC/DC buck (step-down) regulator. With a wide input range of 4 V to 60 V, it is suitable for a wide range of application from industrial to automotive for power conditioning from an unregulated source. The regulator’s standby current is 28 µA in ECO mode, which is suitable for
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Features Protected from Overvoltage Line Faults to ±60V 3.3V or 5V Supply Voltage High Speed Operation Up to 4Mbps ±25kV ESD Interface Pins, ±8kV All Other Pins Variable Slew Rate Driver with Active Symmetry Control and SPLIT Pin for Low Electromagnetic Emission (EME) Extended Common Mode Range (±36V) Ideal Passive Behavior to CAN Bus with Supply Off
LTC2875 – ±60V Fault Protected 3.3V or 5V 25kV ESD High Speed CAN Transceiver Continue Reading
CAMdrive Hello! My project CamDrive is intended to be an open source multi-axis control for time-lapse photography. The current state of development can be traced in the CAM Drive project blog. CAM-Drive ProjektBlog Currently, there is an Android app that already can control one axis. For interested developers I uploaded the source code in my
Wearable technologies that incorporate physiological sensors are appearing on the market in so-called smart watches. Next generation monitoring devices will be worn on the body to monitor conditions such as blood glucose levels in near-real time and allow them to collect considerably more data over the course of a day. Initial examples of this novel
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Two phone makers have announced products with octa-core ARM processors from Taiwanese chip firm MediaTek at IFA in Berlin, where AllWinner announced an octo-core processor this morning. Alcatel has used MT6592 which has eight ARM Cortex-A7s and an ARM Mali GPU in its Hero 2. The LTE modem is another MediaTek chip: the MT6290. Mali
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