Microchip has introduced the PIC24F 'KM' family with "a new level of integrated analogue functionality", said the firm, "including a 12bit ADC with threshold detection, 8bit DACs for control loops, precision comparator references, and ...
Tags: 16bit PICs, Fewer Pins, Consumer Electronics
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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Fortronic is hosting its Led & Lighting Design event on 26 March, at the Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxford. The day starts with Registration (8-45 to 10-00) and then the Morning Plenary Session, which will comprise short technical ...
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If you're still thinking that the latest new cars are all about styling, features, horsepower, and fuel mileage, think again. All those are still important facets, but in-car electronics is now the fastest growing area of automotive ...
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Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing ...
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US credit card giant Visa has announced a global alliance with Samsung to let shoppers make payments by waving their smartphones near a special reader. The deal, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, could significantly ...
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Global financial groups have intensified their war to control the lucrative future of the digital wallet, which will let people use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service ...
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GLOBAL financial groups are competing to control the lucrative future of "mobile money", which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal ...
An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
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Biological detection and diagnostics solutions developer PositiveID has signed a collaboration with Smart Glucose Meter (SGMC). Under the agreement, PositiveID will license its iglucose wireless diabetes management technology to Smart ...
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Microchip has released pin and function-compatible digital signal controllers and 16bit microcontrollers, processing at 70Mips. From the dsPIC33E and PIC24E families, "Microchip is simplifying migration with flash ranging from 32 to ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Microchip has introduced a digitally-controlled analogue DC-DC converter chip for power converters between 50 and 150W, including high current point-of-load converters. Called MCP19111, both microprocessor and analogue blocks are on the ...
Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
Micromechanical chips that pump chemicals and living cells around them are already being used to amplify DNA strands and make health diagnoses. Now a new use for these miniature microchip marvels is being patented in the US: blowing things ...