XMOS today announces a major expansion into automotive markets, with the announcement of a range of xCORE multicore microcontrollers that are qualified to AEC-Q100 standards. "The xCORE architecture is an ideal fit for many applications ...
Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
Tags: MOSS, Building Robots, MIT, Scratch
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced a new family of relative humidity (RH) and temperature sensors that simplify RH sensing designs while providing industry-leading ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This year's 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) in Hamburg from December 27 to December 30 carried numerous informative presentations, including a reverse-engineering story about SD cards, which two investigators explored for malware ...
Tags: 30C3, SD cards, reverse-engineering, malware, MITM attacks
New research by two John Hopkins University students showed older Apple Mac's cameras, iSight, can be hacked to covertly monitor users. John Hopkins University students turn Apple MacBook webcam iSight into covert surveillance camera ...
Tags: LED indicator, Lights, Lighting
Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called “Internet of things” with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering ...
NliteN has just added the dimmable 2D-Lux™ Smart LED Disk (SLEDD) to its campaign on Indiegogo. The 2D-Lux SLEDD, a 60W-incandescent-replacement LED smart "bulb", adds an Atmel AVR microcontroller, USB interface, and ...
Tags: Smart LED Disk, Lighting
US based automobile manufacturer Chrysler will recall about 840,000 vehicles across the globe over various issues. The recall affects 500,000 cars and sports utility vehicles (SUV) over a problem with active-restraint head rest, in ...
Want to find out what's next in smartphones, tablets and PCs? The latest trends in hardware will be on display at the giant Computex trade show, which kicks off in Taipei next week. The 2013 Computex kicks off in Taipei next week ...
Tags: Windows Tablet, Computex
The chip copyright litigation between Shanghai Haier Integrated Circuit and US Microchip Technology, which has lasted for nearly six years, has gotten the final judgment recently. The Shanghai Higher People's Court upheld the judgment of ...
Tags: Microchip, Haier, Computer Products
US based Texas Instruments (TI) has collaborated with the automotive parts supplier, Continental for mass production of the microcontrollers with Flash technology. Both the companies will jointly manufacture the 65nm ARM Cortex safety ...
Tags: Texas Instruments, Vehicles
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced availability of what it claimns is the industry’s ...
Tags: Peregrine, SPDT RF Switch, Electronics
In 2012, MCU unit shipments surged 16%, but total revenues declined 3% and ASPs plunged 17%, says IC Insights. While uncertainty about the global economy played a factor in lowering MCU revenues, the market was significantly ...
Microchip has integrated a dual op amp into its 8-bit PIC microcontrollers. The PIC16F527 and PIC16F570 microcontrollers are designed with on-chip dual op amp module, 8-bit ADC and two comparators. Combining signal conditioning and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Microcontrollers