MPPT charge controller reference design for 12- and 24-V solar panels
This reference design is a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) solar charge controller for 12-V and 24-V solar panels. This compact reference design targets small and medium power solar charger solutions and is capable of operating with 15- to 60-V solar panel modules, 12- or 24-V...
Continue ReadingLaserPecker Pro – The Most Advanced Portable Engraver
LaserPecker Pro-The Most Advanced Portable Engraver. Compact, Safe & Easy-to-use Laser Engraver LaserPecker recently announced a Pro version of their LaserPecker portable, affordable, compact laser engraver. Launched earlier this week on Kickstarter, the Laspecker Pro surpassed...
Continue ReadingsimpleFE – A simple mixed signal front-end
simpleFE is a low cost, fully open-source, mixed-signal front-end. Designed primarily to carry out analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, simpleFE includes plenty of IO and allows you to create your own signal processing system more quickly, more easily, and more...
Continue ReadingDepthAI – An embedded platform for combining Depth and AI, built around Myriad X
DepthAI is a platform built around the Myriad X to combine depth perception, object detection (neural inference), and object tracking that gives you this power in a simple, easy-to-use Python API. It's a one-stop shop for folks who want to combine and harness the power of AI, depth, and...
Continue ReadingHigh Power LED flashing beacon uses a switching regulator
This flasher/beacon circuit can be employed as a distress signal on highways, a direction pointer for parking lots, hospitals, and hotels, etc. The circuit uses a power LED, and provides more light than a typical incandescent lamp flasher. Use of a 6 V or 12 V SLA lantern battery makes...
Continue ReadingCreate +/-12V Split Rail From A 5V Bias
With digital semiconductor technology driving system power supplies to lower voltages for higher performance and lower system power, sensitive analog sensor circuits face a growing problem. Much of the inherent noise created in the early stages of an analog sensor signal path is...
Continue ReadingCoolSiC™ MOSFET evaluation board for motor drives up to 7.5 kW
Silicon carbide (SiC) is en route to mainstream for applications like photovoltaic and uninterruptable power supplies. Infineon Technologies AG is now targeting the next group of applications for this wide bandgap technology: The evaluation board EVAL-M5-E1B1245N-SiC will help to pave...
Continue ReadingExcelon™ Ferroelectric-RAM (F-RAM™)
Cypress Semiconductor's F-RAM is ideal for portable medical, wearable, IoT sensor, industrial, and automotive applications Cypress Semiconductor’s Excelon is next-generation Ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) which delivers the industry’s lowest-power mission-critical nonvolatile memory by...
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