Year: 2016
The Tiniest 1nm Gate Transistor
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at Berkeley Lab have debuted the smallest transistor ever reported. A gate structure of just 1 nm long can bring Moore’s law back again after the demonstration of the recent Silicon (Si) transistor with 5 nm gate. It was predicted that...
Continue ReadingNEC Display Powered by Raspberry Pi
Earlier this month, NEC Display Solutions Europe announced that they are working on a new generation of large-format displays that support the Raspberry Pi compute module, enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi devices with NEC displays. Originally developed to promote the...
Continue ReadingLayout software eases 3D prototype production
A manufacturer and service provider for PCB prototyping, Beta LAYOUT has developed a 3D MID CAD program to speed up the prototyping and small-series manufacturing of 3D Mechatronic Interconnect Devices (MIDs). by Julien Happich @ edn-europe.com: Circuit carriers of the...
Continue ReadingThermal design: Get the heat out of the electronics
Paul Rako@ edn.com discuss about thermal design in electronics and how to design your board to dissipate it effectively. If you have high-powered LEDS, or a power supply, or are trying to control larger motors, you have to get a lot of heat out of your circuit boards. The classic way...
Continue ReadingPiOSCBOX: A Raspberry Pi based audio processor and synthesizer
Raspberry Pi carries a lot of horsepower inside to handle the realtime audio and add some effects to it. The only limitation is it does not have a built-in sound card, but it is manageable using an external USB soundcard. PiOSCBOX is an attempt to make a low-cost, stand-alone audio...
Continue Reading$3.6 GPRS GSM Module from Ai Thinker
ShenZhen Ai-thinker CO.,a leading enterprise in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry and the maker of the ESP-12E module, had launched a new killer module: $3.60 GSM GPRS A6 Module! Providing a chip cheaper than the popular ESP8266 seems to be promising and opens doors for future IoT...
Continue ReadingEmbedded orientation detection using the MMA8450Q
NXP’s accelerometer chip MMA8450Q, provides orientation detection on handheld devices: This application note targets the portrait/landscape orientation detection feature which has become standard in many hand-held electronic devices. Additionally, this application note aims to...
Continue ReadingFPGA-Based Arduino Shield
Inspired by an interest in spreading the concepts of FPGA, and because its ability to overcome most of other platforms limitations such as IO, memory, and peripherals, technolomaniac had worked on developing the first Arduino FPGA shield. A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is...
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