Microchip’s MCP1640 – Super-Effective Battery Power
Designers working on line-powered systems are in luck… Designers working on line-powered systems are in luck; whilst wasting power is always bad, a few mA of waste don’t really matter. When working on battery powered systems, every bit of energy helps – an efficient switching...
Continue ReadingUDOO BOLT, A Supercomputer with twice the Power of a MacBook Pro 13
One thing technology has taught us in the last few years, is the so-called powerful devices of yesterday, will not match the devices of today or tomorrow and this is something that is transcending in the hardware industry. Maker's board have seen a drastic improvement ever since the...
Continue ReadingCortexProg is a Cortex-M Programmer and Debugger
The ARM Cortex family of 32-bit RISC-based processors has emerged as the leading processor core in embedded designs due to its efficient architecture, robust and scalable instruction set, and extensive base of development tools and software. Cortex-M MCUs has been one of the most used...
Continue ReadingParticle sensor with LoRa
Mare published a new build: Particle sensors could be cheap and easy to use. Disadvantage of lowest cost PM sensors is lack of “calibration”. The best method to measure particle content dispensed in the air is to collect the air sample and analyse it off-line in the laboratory with...
Continue ReadingSTM8S903K3T6C 8Bit Microcontroller from STMicroelectronics
If an 8bit microcontroller is needed… If an 8bit microcontroller is needed, Microchip normally comes up first. STMicroelectronics, a company more commonly associated with 32-bit processors, also offers quite a bit of eight bit technology. The STM8S903K3T6C, which we are going to...
Continue ReadingMYIR Introduced Cost-effective MYC-C7Z010/007S CPU Module
Shenzhen, China - March 20, 2018 - MYIR introduced a cost-effective CPU Module MYC-C7Z010/007S powered by Xilinx XC7Z007S (Zynq-7007S) or XC7Z010 ( Zynq-7010) SoC device. It is an industrial-grade System-on-Module which is capable of running Linux and targets industrial application...
Continue Reading50A µModule regulator scalable to 250A runs cool with inductors exposed as heatsinks
Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear LTM4678 dual 25A or single 50A step-down µModule regulator with PMBus digital interface. By stacking and exposing its two inductors on top of BGA package, the LTM4678 uses the inductors as heat sinks to transfer heat from inside, keeping the...
Continue ReadingMintBox Mini 2 comes with more power and it is 50% faster than its predecessor.
The first MintBox Mini was released in 2015 in partnership between Compulab and the Linux Mint team. Since then, there has been an advancement in the software and the hardware that powered the first iteration. In March 2018, Compulab has continued with the Linux Mini Project releasing a...
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