Year: 2017
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Meet BeagleBone Blue by Beagleboard
A new development board by BeagleBoard has been just unveiled: BeagleBone® Blue! The new board is dedicated for designers, hobbyists and professional featuring a Linux-enabled robotics controller complete with an extensive set of peripherals for building mobile robots quickly and...
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tinyTILE, An Intel Development Board Based on Intel Curie Module
In the past year, Intel announced the low power development board “tinyTILE” which was built based on Intel Curie Module, offering quick and easy identification of actions and motions, features needed by always-on applications. tinyTile was designed for use in wearable devices and...
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The Octopart Guide to IC Packages
Sanket Gupta @ blog.octopart.com tipped us with his latest article. He writes: Continuing our series on how to select components, we will discuss different IC packages in this blog. ICs are the backbone of electronic devices, and choosing the right IC requires considering factors...
Continue Reading![Keysight adds 50/70/100 MHz oscilloscopes for educators, small labs Keysight adds 50/70/100 MHz oscilloscopes for educators, small labs](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Keysight_1000_X-Series_554x308.jpg)
Keysight adds 50/70/100 MHz oscilloscopes for educators, small labs
Martin Rowe @ edn.com writes: Taking aim at rivals Rigol and Tektronix, Keysight Technologies has introduced a series of four oscilloscopes aimed at educators, small labs, and perhaps individuals. The InfiniiVision 1000 X-Series of two-channel oscilloscopes has bandwidths of 50 MHz,...
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From Maker to Production tools by Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics, a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions, is now joining the Embedded World 2017 exhibition and conference. Embedded world is the trade fair for the security...
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How Do NASA’s Apollo Computers Stack Up to an iPhone?
By David Grossman @ popularmechanics.com: Yes, the modern smartphone is more powerful than the computer used by NASA during the Apollo mission, but that overlooks how impressive the Apollo computers actually were. For starters, there wasn't just one computer, there were four. How Do...
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Advancing power supply solutions through the promise of GaN
by Michael Seeman and Dave Freeman from Texas Instrument: One important innovation that promises to contribute significantly to meeting this goal is the use of gallium-nitride (GaN) in power applications. GaN is already an established semiconductor material, employed extensively in LED...
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Analyzing the vintage 8008 processor from die photos
Ken Shirriff writes: The revolutionary Intel 8008 microprocessor is 45 years old today (March 13, 2017), so I figured it’s time for a blog post on reverse-engineering its internal circuits. One of the interesting things about old computers is how they implemented things in...
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