Samsung will be mass producing its UFS 4.0 in Q3  in a variety of capacities up to 1TB. Samsung UFS 4.0 will provide speed of up to 23.2 Gbps per lane. That’s double the previous leading UFS solution (UFS 3.1). This will make UFS 4.0 suitable for 5G smartphones with features...

SparkFun has announced an Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout board built around the famous SPH8878LR5H-1 analog microphone. A MEMS microphone is an electro-acoustic transducer housing a sensor (MEMS) and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a single package. The board...

As a part of the Microchip Get Launched design competition, Virginia-based Great Big Factory, an electronic device manufacturer, has designed SMT parts counter that runs on a CR2032 coin cell– BeanCounter. Yet to be launched for crowdfunding on CrowdSupply, the manufacturer has...

We recently covered a soon-to-be-live crowdfunding project called BeanCounter that lets you count cut tapes and reels. Another upcoming project on CrowdSupply is a software-controlled radio walkie-talkie powered by an ESP32 microcontroller. However, the manufacturer, Mord Technologies,...

Analog Devices Inc. has launched ADXL367 three-axis MEMS accelerometer intended for applications such as vital signs monitoring, hearing aids, and motion-enabled metering devices. The accelerometer lowers power consumption by a factor of two compared a previous generation of the device...

How to quickly prototype 4x machine vision applications on one small embedded system. Embedded vision components are ever-popular and are being incorporated into a plethora of applications. What all these applications have in common is the need to pack more and more functionality into...

Maxim Integrated DS28E38 DeepCover® Secure ECDSA Authenticator is an ECDSA public key-based secure authenticator that incorporates Maxim's patented ChipDNA™ PUF technology. ChipDNA technology involves a physically unclonable function (PUF) that enables the DS28E38 to deliver...

We recently covered the release of Mixtile Blade 3 single-board computer, which is going to be launched in Crowdfunding, and comes equipped with Rockchip RK3588 SoC, runs a hybrid Android and Linux distribution. Chinese embedded device manufacturer Mixtile Limited has gone ahead and...