MAX17055 – a 7μA operating current fuel gauge
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com Maxim Integrated has posted details of a battery charge monitor IC for which it claims the lowest quiescent current available, at 7µA. The 1-cell Fuel Gauge with Maxim’s ModelGauge m5 EZ algorithm can eliminate battery characterization...
Continue Reading3D Gaming With Raspberry Pi & ExaGear
ExaGear is a virtual machine that implements virtual x86 Linux container on ARM and allows you to run Intel x86 applications directly on ARM. With this software by Eltechs you can run Intel x86 application on your ARM-based Mini PC simultaneously with common native applications. It...
Continue ReadingOne wire controls LCD module
Rex Niven @ edn.com has a design idea on how to drive a character LCD using only one wire. This hardware interface Design Idea reduces the connection to just one wire, allowing a basic microcontroller with limited I/O to drive a large display, either directly, through a standard...
Continue Reading3-axis accelerometer performs wake-up in consumer designs
Kionix (Ithaca, New York), part of the Rohm Group, has added the KXTJ3 3-axis low-cost accelerometer that offers the performance of a more expensive accelerometer in a 2 x 2 x 0.9 mm form factor. By Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com The company presents the device as a high...
Continue ReadingArrow’s New FPGA-Based IoT Maker Board
Arrow Electronics has introduced a new FPGA IoT Maker Board designed for end-to-end application development and optimised for cost. The Arrow MAX1000 board can be installed directly into a custom application or integrated on to a completely separate board. It has been...
Continue ReadingSiglent SSA3032X Spectrum Analyzer Review & Experiments
Afroman reviews Siglent's SSA3000X series spectrum analyzer and all the options. There is some RF information for beginners and usage experiments are also performed. Siglent SSA3032X Spectrum Analyzer Review & Experiments -...
Continue ReadingiCP12Q DAQduino, A Data Acquisition Board In Arduino Form
iCircuit Technologies had produced the iCP12A DAQduino, an Arduino-like development board for signals monitoring, data acquisition and circuit troubleshooting at 1mSec/Samples period. The DAQduino board features a PIC18F2550 microcontroller with 14 digital I/O pins, two of them are...
Continue ReadingElectrons Counter-Intuitive Movement
Our 'common sense' would say that when an object moves from point A to point B it necessarily has to also move through all the points between A and B. This is, however, not true for electrons in the quantum world, where these intuitive truths are not valid. Electrons can, for...
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