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...
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TI introduced Nano-Power Ultra-Low Voltage Supervisor with Adjustable Reset Time Delay
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
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 Microcontrollers for IoT Connectivity Modules and Space-Constrained Edge Devices
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 with Microchip's Expanding Low-Power FPGA Video and Image Processing Solutions
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 to make one 16-bit DAC
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 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...
A circuit to use PIC peripheral outputs simultaneously
In PIC microcontrollers, the MSSP module uses multiplexed pins for the I2C and SPI peripherals. There is typically no issue using either of the two peripherals. But what if both peripherals are needed simultaneously, without changing the microcontroller?...
Precision Programmable Current Sources Use Digital Pots
The circuit implements a programmable 0- to 20-mA precision current source...
Toshiba's ARM Cortex-M4-based Microcontrollers deliver high-speed data processing
Toshiba Electronics Europe has added the M4G Group to its TXZ Family of ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers for office automation equipment, audio-visual equipment, and industrial equipment...
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