Designing a PCB layout is a work of engineering art, includes placing components and routing them through different layers. So when you assign the same job for different engineers, each one would make it in his own way. But sometimes when working on a complex design some help may be...

Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about Linear's low noise buck-boost converter LTC3246, able to produce 3.3V, 5V or ADJ regulated with an input range of 2.7V to 38V : LTC3246 is a low noise buck-boost charge pump with integrated watchdog timer capable of up to 500 mA...

Clayton G. Hobbs @ hackaday.io published some details of his project, a USB power delivery board. He writes: USB Power Delivery is a cool standard for getting lots of power—up to 100 W—from a USB Type-C port. Being an open standard for supplying enough power to charge phones,...

The ‘Pi Desktop’ kit from element14 offers some great features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a real-time clock, an interface for an mSATA-SSD hard drive, an optional camera, heat sink, a neat power switch and of course the sleek black case. [via] The Raspberry Pi is a well designed,...

by Eric Bogers @ elektormagazine.com discuss about a new project that aims to create the first image of a black hole. He writes: A powerful network of radio telescopes, spread around our planet, attempts for the first time to create an image of a black hole. Black holes are...

Overview of the Tektronix MSO58 8-Channel 6.25GS/s 2GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope -...

Today’s market requirements change faster than the typical development time for a new device or the ability of designers of SoCs to know. To solve this problem, FPGAs/MCUs are used so developers can change the configuration/firmware later. As known, MCU IP is static and you can't...

Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called "Open-V". Onchip, the startup of the research team,...