Category: IC

Startup Gyrfalcon introduced the Laceli AI Compute Stick, based on the same ASIC, early in 2018 to compete with the Neural Compute Stick introduced by Intel in 2017 . [via] The Lightspeeur 2801S is the first instantiation of Gyrfalcon's APiM processing-in-memory architecture. The...

Voltage gatekeeper Vdd brownouts are among the most common antipodes of microcontroller design – they are especially annoying, as their presence is not easy to detect. Diodes Incorporated provides a new family of easy-to-use supply voltage monitor ICs. From a principal point of view,...

Ken Shirriff has a detailed write-up about the multi-level ROM in Intel’s 8087 floating point chip: The 8087 chip provided fast floating point arithmetic for the original IBM PC and became part of the x86 architecture used today. One unusual feature of the 8087 is it contained a...

Maxim Integrated has developed an algorithm to accurately estimate the battery state of charge and safely handle most batteries. Designers of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery-powered mobile devices such as wearables, electric bicycles, power tools and internet of things (IoT) products can...

Analog Devices' LTC2962-LTC2964 family of 4-channel voltage supervisors has been designed with exceptional accuracy for increased system voltage margin and enhanced reliability. [via] ASIC, FPGA, DSP, MCU and MPU architectures that operate from supplies as low as 1V cannot utilize...

Nexperia’s 74AUP1Txx & 74LV1Txxx logic families provide solutions that integrate voltage level translation with a Boolean function. 74AUP1Txx & 74LV1Txxx types are single supply general-purpose voltage-translating devices, respectively operating in the 2.3 V to 3.6 V and 1.6...

E-peas’ photovoltaic energy harvesting IC solution – AEM10941 – is the next generation integrated energy management subsystem that extracts DC power from up to 7 cells solar panels to simultaneously store energy in a rechargeable element and supply the system with two independent...

A complete supercapacitor back-up power management system for 2.9 to 5.5V supply rails is available from Analog Devices. The LTC4041 uses an on-chip bi-directional synchronous converter to provide high efficiency step-down supercapacitor charging. There is also high current, high...