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ATtiny85 Pulse Oximeter Photoplethysmograph
ATtiny85 Pulse Oximeter and Photoplethysmograph
Apr 21, 2020 Circuits

This project implemented on an ATtiny85 displays a moving Photoplethysmogram together with pulse rate and estimates of SpO2 - blood oxygen percentage...

Isolated Full-Duplex RS-485 Transceiver
Isolated Full-Duplex RS-485 Transceiver
Apr 13, 2020 Circuits

This module is an isolated full-duplex differential line driver and receiver for TIA/EIA RS485/RS422 applications. The module is ideal for long transmission lines because the ground loop is broken to allow for a much larger common-mode voltage range...

Self-Calibrating USB Voltage Current Meter
Self-Calibrating USB Voltage/Current Meter
Apr 6, 2020 Circuits

With a code size of 1 KB on an ATtiny13A MCU, this tiny module measures voltages up to 22 volts and current up to 5 amps...

TI introduced Nano-Power Ultra-Low Voltage Supervisor
TI introduced Nano-Power Ultra-Low Voltage Supervisor with Adjustable Reset Time Delay
Mar 8, 2020 News

Texas Instruments introduced the family of voltage supervisors or reset ICs that can operate at high voltage levels while maintaining very low quiescent current across the whole VDD and temperature range...

New STM32WB Wireless Microcontrollers STMicroelectronics Delivered
New STM32WB Wireless Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics Delivered in a New Affordable Value Line

STM32WB50 Value Line wireless microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics are a full and pin-compatible derivative of the STM32WB55 System-on-Chip, created to serve cost-sensitive connected devices that need to support Bluetooth® 5.0, ZigBee® 3.0, or OpenThread...

HOLTEK New HT45F5Q-3 Charger MCU
HOLTEK New HT45F5Q-3 Charger MCU
Aug 29, 2019 News

Within the charger product application area, Holtek is delighted to announce the release of its new charger application specific MCU, the HT45F5Q-3...

Renesas Electronics Introduces Ultra-Small RX651 32-Bit
Renesas Electronics Introduces Ultra-Small RX651 32-Bit Microcontrollers for IoT Connectivity Modules and Space-Constrained Edge Devices
Aug 12, 2019 News Microcontrollers

Renesas Electronics announced four new RX651 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) supplied in ultra-small 64-pin BGA and LQFP packages. The new lineup expands Renesas’ popular RX651 MCU Group with a 64-pin BGA package...

Accelerate Smart Embedded Vision Designs Microchip
Accelerate Smart Embedded Vision Designs with Microchip's Expanding Low-Power FPGA Video and Image Processing Solutions
Jul 18, 2019 News

As compute-intensive, vision-based systems are increasingly integrated at the network edge, Field Programmable Gate Arrays are quickly becoming a preferred flexible platform for next-generation designs...

Combine two 8-bit outputs make one
Combine two 8-bit outputs to make one 16-bit DAC
Jun 25, 2019 Circuits

Inexpensive, 16-bit, monolithic DACs can serve almost all applications. However, some applications require unconventional approaches. This Design Idea design concerns circuitry I recently designed for a tunable-diode laser spectrometer...

In-Circuit Programming Switch Simplifies Operation Programmable
In-Circuit Programming Switch Simplifies Operation Of Programmable Devices

Many devices require programming through a serial bus, such as I2C. The programming can be done during final test, after the circuit board has been assembled. In many cases, the pins used for programming can then be utilized for something else during normal operation...