Author: Yahya Tawil

Intersil published a new white paper titled “Preventing Subsystem Brownouts in Mobile Devices“. This white paper demonstrates the benefit of using a buck-boost converter as a pre-regulator, which leads to better overall system efficiency and enhanced battery life. Systems...

David Jones has another useful video tutorial about how to safely charge Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries with a bench power supply. The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to use your lab power supply to charge your Lithium Ion battery when you don’t have a special...

Welcome to the second post of the “Exploring Eagle CAD ULPs” series. Every week we will publish a new post about one useful ULP in Eagle CAD. “ULP” User Language Program is a plain text file which is written in a C­-like syntax and can be used to access the EAGLE data...

When I started to deal with Chinese electronics suppliers from websites like Alibaba, Aliexpress and Taobao, I discovered that there are huge amount of undiscovered tools from the Chinese market. They are not easily discovered, maybe due to the Chinese language barrier, especially...

With a controller and a seven segment display, showing the time is not a so special feature, but when this clock can listen to the user and do what they want, that’s what worth highlighting a “Time Machine”. Analysing human voice and take action based on that is not so simple....

It has been about one year since the announcement of ESP32 SoC and the beginning of its beta testing for some developers. Last Month we covered the release of ESP-WROOM-32 module datasheet,  which promised that “New SDK features, tutorials and example applications will be...

Welcome to the first post of the “Exploring Eagle CAD ULPs” series. Every week we will publish a new post about one useful ULPs in Eagle CAD. "ULP" User Language Program is a plain text file which is written in a C­-like syntax and can be used to access the EAGLE data structures...

Texas Instruments “TI” recently announced  FemtoFET series. There are N-channel MOSFETS like CSD15380F3 and P-channel MOSFETS like CSD25480F3 and CSD23280F3 in this series. These transistors are SMD (Surface Mount Devices) available in a very small package, the land grid array (LGA)...