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Intersil’s half Watt 12bit ADC hits 500Msample/s

Description The ISLA118P50 is a low-power, high-performance, 500MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed with Intersil’s proprietary FemtoCharge™ technology on a standard CMOS process. The ISLA118P50 is part of a pin-compatible portfolio of 8, 10 and 12-bit A/Ds. This device is an upgrade of the KAD551XP-50 product family and is pin similar. The device utilizes two time-interleaved 250MSPS […]

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Digital light chip draws sensor 0.65µA

Electronics News Updates / Ibrar Ayyub

Description The MAX44007 ambient light sensor features an I²C digital output that is ideal for a number of portable applications such as smartphones, notebooks, and industrial sensors. At less than 1µA operating current, it is the lowest power ambient light sensor in the industry and features an ultra-wide 22-bit dynamic range from 0.025 lux to

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Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip

Electronics News Updates / Ibrar Ayyub

This article explains how the LMC555 timer chip works, from the tiny transistors and resistors on the silicon chip, to the functional units such as comparators and current mirrors that make it work. The popular 555 timer integrated circuit is said to be the world’s best-selling integrated circuit with billions sold since it was designed

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OPEN SOURCE KEY PROGRAMMER FOR HITAG2 KEYS

Arduino News / Ibrar Ayyub

Hitag transponders are employed in a wide range of car keys to prevent theft and unauthorized starting of vehicles. They are also a contributing factor to the increased cost of duplicating car keys for many models that incorporate this technology. Nevertheless, there is currently a software developer who collaborates with these transponder keys, all thanks

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Standalone Arduino chip on breadboard

Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects / Ibrar Ayyub

If you’re like me, after I got my Arduino and performed a final programming on my first chip, I wanted to pull it off my Arduino Duemilanove and put it on my own circuit. This would also free up my Arduino for future projects. The problem was that I’m such an electronics newbie that I didn’t know

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MEMS CLOCK-SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP

News & Updates / Muhammad Bilal

SiTime Corporation, a leader in MEMS timing, has announced the launch of the Cascade family of MEMS clock ICs for 5G, wireline telecom and datacentre infrastructure. The SiT9514x clock-system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC) family, consists of clock generators, jitter cleaners, and network synchronizers that are able to deliver multiple clock signals in a system. This family uses SiTime’s

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NRFSEC, FOR UNLOCKING ANY PROTECTED NRF51-SERIES SYSTEM-ON-CHIP FOR DEBUG

News & Updates / Muhammad Bilal

Loren Browman, a security analyst recently published a guide to automated unlocking of Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF51-series systems-on-chips (SoCs) which claims to be protected, enabling a full memory dump or interactive debugging regardless of protection settings. In a blog piece for security firm Optiv, Loren Browman writes “Recently, while conducting an assessment for a product based on

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TI intros its lowest noise octal 12-bit ADC

Electronics News Updates / Ibrar Ayyub

Description Using CMOS process technology and innovative circuit techniques, the ADS5294 is a low power 80MSPS 8-Channel ADC. Low power consumption, high SNR, low SFDR, and consistent overload recovery allow users to design high performance systems. The ADS5294 has a digital processing block that integrates several commonly used digital functions for improving system performance.

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Chip has all analogue for engine management

Electronics News Updates / Ibrar Ayyub

The 33813 is an engine control analog power IC intended for one cylinder motorcycle and other small engine control applications. The IC consists of five integrated low side drivers, two pre-drivers, a VRS (variable reluctance sensor) input circuit, a voltage pre-regulator using an external pass transistor, and two 5.0 volt internal regulators, one for the

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ADI converter will cut power of professional audio

Electronics News Updates / Ibrar Ayyub

The ADAU1966 is a high performance, single-chip DAC that provides sixteen digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with differential output using the Analog Devices, Inc. patented multi-bit sigma-delta (Σ-Δ) architecture. An SPI/I2C port is included, allowing a microcontroller to adjust volume and many other parameters. The ADAU1966 operates from 2.5 V digital and 3.3V or 5V analog supplies.

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