644 Narrow and 1284 Narrow are the simplest and perfect upgrade option for all your small footprint Arduino projects. The Narrow board gives you 2 to 8 times more flash and RAM resources as compared to a Uno/Nano, plus total compatibility.
A large amount of effective Flash and RAM. Effective because the code generated on 8 bits MCU is much smaller than on 32 bits MCUs. Hence you can load a bigger program on these 64k/128K MCU than on a 256k 32 bits MCU! Atmega644/1284 also have EEPROM that adds to the total storage capabilities.
A small footprint. Narrow boards are approximately 1/5 the of the surface of a Mega2560 board, and half its current consumption.
Perfect Arduino compatibility. Ten more digital I/Os and one more UART port.
The PAN1326C2 is a Bluetooth Low Energy 4.2 dual mode solution supporting Basic Rate (BR) and Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), fully certified for EU, US and CA.
Panasonic’s PAN1326C2 is a Host Controlled Interface (HCI) Bluetooth Radio Frequency (RF) module which has integrated Texas Instruments C2564C. That brings Texas Instruments Incorporated™ seventh generation Bluetooth core integrated circuit to an easy-to-use module format. The PAN1326C2 is Bluetooth 4.2 compliant and it offers best-in-class RF performance with about twice the range of other Bluetooth Low Energy solutions. Panasonic’s tiny footprint technology has produced a module with a dimension of only 9.0mm x 9.5mm x 1.8mm. The module is designed to accommodate PCBs pad pitch of 1.3mm and as few as two layers for easy implementation and manufacturing. The module has been designed to be 100% pin-compatible with previous generations of Texas Instruments based Bluetooth HCI modules. CE, RED, FCC, IC certifications are available.
General Features And Benefits:
Bluetooth v4.2 compliant up to the HCI layer
Best-in-class Bluetooth RF performance (Tx, Rx sensitivity, blocking)
The compact wireless transceiver module TCM 515 offers reduced power consumption, smaller size and a lower purchase price compared to the previous generation TCM 310.
Now available at Rutronik UK, the module is suitable for systems such as transceiver gateways, actuators and controllers that communicate based on the EnOcean radio standard in the sub-GHz band. Thanks to a higher processor performance, all security features – encryption, decryption and authentication – can be performed directly in the module. This enables a secure end-to-end communication without external components.
The TCM 515 module, pre-certified according to international radio standards, receives radio telegrams either via wire antenna, PCB antenna or an external 50 Ohm antenna. It can filter, decrypt and authenticate these telegrams before forwarding them to an externally-connected host processor or host PC via a serial UART-interface (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter). Thanks to the integrated security processing no additional components are required for encryption.
The serial interface operates according to the EnOcean ESP3 standard with the option to use higher interface speeds (TURBO mode) to reduce latencies. ESP3 messages received from the external host will be encrypted and authenticated as required before they are transmitted as EnOcean radio telegrams.
The wireless transceiver module TCM 515 / S3003-K515 supports the radio frequency 868MHz for Europe while the TCM 515U / S3053-K515 supports 902MHz for North America.
Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense is one of the newest Arduino boards and packs many features and sensors. It’s Small, powerful, BT connected and with all the sensors you may need to design innovative applications.
It’s a compact and reliable Nano board that is built around the NINA B306 module for BLE and Bluetooth 5 communication; the module is based on Nordic nRF 52840 processor that contains a powerful Cortex M4F and the board has a rich set of sensors that allow the creation of innovative and highly interactive designs.
Its architecture, fully compatible with Arduino IDE Online and Offline, has a 9 axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), temperature, pressure, humidity,light, color and even gestures sensors and a microphone that are managed through specialized libraries. Its reduced power consumption, compared to other same size boards, together with the Nano form factor opens up a wide range of applications.
This board is based on the nRF52480 microcontroller.
Specifications
Clock: 64MHz
Flash: 1MB
RAM: 256KB
The Bluetooth is managed by a NINA B306 module.
The IMU is a LSM9DS1 and it is managed through I2C.
The LPS22HB reads barometric pressure and environmental temperature.
The HTS221 senses relative humidity.
The APDS-9960 is a digital proximity, ambient light, RGB and gesture sensor.
The MP34DT05 is the digital microphone
The board has a two 15 pins connectors – one on each side -, pin to pin compatible with the original Arduino Nano.
The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense is open-source hardware! You can build your own board using the following files:
Modern devices are quickly switching to USB-C power adapters, gradually fading out USB-A, and USB-B adapters. USB’s Power Delivery (USB-PD) protocol enables the supplies to be flexible enough to handle charging (or powering) devices ranging from mobile phones to laptops. There are many high quality 90-100 Watt USB-C power adapters available. But unfortunately, there are many devices that rely on legacy power bricks, that cannot function with those. Oxplot‘sUSB PD standalone controller bridges the gap. A STUSB4500 from STMicroelectronics handles the USB-PD protocol.
Ever thought of (re-)using your USB-C charger (like Macbook’s) to power other devices? If so, this is the board for you. You can configure the chip once with your voltage/current needs and it will automatically request that voltage/current from an upstream USB-C charger. This is completely stand-alone and requires no external microcontroller.
The STUSB4500 has memory for 3 Power Delivery Output (PDO) configurations, with each specifying an accepted voltage range and maximum current requirement. For example, one PDO can specify 13.2v±5% and max. current of 2.1A. Once configured, the chip will compute the list of available outputs upon cable attachment, and will match the requirements against it. If a match is available, it will configure the upstream to enable that power option. By virtue of the board featuring a MOSFET on the VBUS controlled by STUSB4500, it is possible to configure it to only pass through the power if the requirements are met (instead of fall back to another PDO or 5v). With the datasheet, the official GUI config tool exposes all the configuration in a simple to understand manner.
Features:
STUSB4500 chip capabale of negotiating from 5-20V in 50mV increments and up to 5A.
an LDO MOSFET power path that is switched on only when the charger meets the voltage/current requirements programmed.
a discharge path to safely discharge the VBUS line when a lower voltage is configured or when the cable is detached.
ESD protection diodes on VBUS and USB-C pins.
Grounded M3 mounting holes.
Optional header pins and screw terminal (requires soldering)
Manufactured and assembled in USA
STUSB4500 features some simple but useful connectivity via open-drain IO pins, in addition to the I2C. Two of its 3 PDOs have dedicated pins that are pulled low when that PDO is selected. These can be connected to LEDs to indicate which voltage is selected. In addition, attachment and the side of the attached USB-C cable are indicated with dedicated pins. One GPIO pin can also be configured to indicate other conditions. Oxplot‘s breakout board enables either screw terminals or soldering wires directly to the board. Available also are ESD diodes on the USB side for protection. The board also utilizes a pass-transistor to ensure the DC port is powered until the STUSB4500 identifies a valid power configuration.
Flashing utility and other details regarding the board are available in the github repo. The design isn’t fully published yet, due to the fact that it needs some clean up. There was also an issue with reading registers above address 0x7F, but switching to software I2C fixed the issue. Oxplot offers kits through their Tindie store for $25.
Acrosser ACM-XD15MT COM Express Type 7 module is based on the Intel® Xeon® processor D family, and available in 8 core versions for scalable computing performance. The ACM-XD15MT is perfect for space-constrained systems requiring increased density and reduced power consumption such as virtualization, edge computing or other industrial applications.
The ACM-XD15MT is an Intel® Xeon® D processor-based mezzanine module designed in COM Express® Basic form factor (95 mm x 125 mm), and the first Acrosser product to be designed based on COM Express® Type 7 standard.
The new COM Express® Type 7 standard deviates from the established Type 6 pinout, which focuses on audio and visual capabilities, by eliminating graphics support to allow the inclusion of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, an NC-SI interface, and additional eight (total of 32) PCI Express lanes.
The ACM-XD15MT, a Type 7 COM Express basic module embedded with Intel® Xeon® processor D-1548 accommodates up to 32 GB DDR4-2400 ECC SDRAM in two channels to support memory intensive applications. ACM-XD15MT also hosts numerous I/O ports and interfaces, including 10 GbE Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0, SATA, USB 3.0, COM Port, GPIO and Intel HD audio channel.
ACM-XD15MT
Examples of target applications for the new product, ACM-XD15MT, are industrial automation, storage and networking appliances such as cloud servers for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.
Image caption: An FMx shunt under construction: The resistance material, e.g. NOVENTIN®, is made of a robust full metal plate which is directly soldered with its underside. Very low-ohmic resistances are achievable thanks to the large cross-sectional areas.
Isabellenhütte has developed a new range of precision resistors in standard sizes with resistances ranging from 1 to 6 mOhm for applications which require small and low-ohmic shunts. In terms of their construction, the components are also less complex than the current ISA-PLAN®resistance families. And yet, they offer the same performance quality: very good long-term stability, a low temperature coefficient, and low thermoelectric voltages.
With the FMx shunt family, Isabellenhütte has now plugged a gap in the standard size range for precision resistances. It has not been possible with the previous product ranges to realize the usual S (2512), P (2010) and K (1206) standard sizes in the resistance range from 5 to 1 mOhm. The impetus for this new development was provided by increasing demand for these resistances as well from a wide range of industries, including the automotive sector (for in-car chargers and assistance systems) and industry (for BLDC drive units), but also from the consumer market (e.g. for white goods).
The development approach
The large cross-sectional areas required for low-ohmic components have been achieved by a change in construction, and the production process has also been significantly simplified. A further milestone for the FMx shunts has been the development of the NOVENTIN® resistance alloy to make it possible to realize these low-ohmic values in defined sizes. Until now, the ISA-PLAN® resistances (SMx, VMx and CMx) have followed a sandwich construction, consisting of a substrate – usually copper – an adhesive and a resistance film made out of the ZERANIN® and MANGANIN® resistance alloys developed in-house by Isabellenhütte. The FM in the title of the new range stands for “Full Metal”, i.e. the components are fashioned in the corresponding thickness out of a full metal plate made of the resistance material in question and directly soldered onto the underside. These variant is very low-ohmic due to the large cross-sectional areas. 1 mOhm is realized with the ZERANIN® alloy, 2 mOhm with MANGANIN®, and, for the first time, NOVENTIN® is being used in ISA-PLAN® products for the resistance range from 3 to 6 mOhm. The new design has given rise to a particularly robust construction which also makes it possible to leave out some work stages and reduce costs. An important point for the automotive industry is this: The components form a soldering point meniscus to guarantee the possibility of automated inspection of the soldering points.
Less complex with the same quality parameters
Despite the reduction in complexity, the FMx range still offers the same high performance quality as the existing high-ohmic product family. This is ensured by the high-class, massive resistance material, the very good long-term stability, a low temperature coefficient and low thermoelectric voltages. These aspects give rise to good measurement resistance.
Start of production in the last quarter of 2020
Beta samples of the FMx range are currently in production. Qualification in accordance with the AEC-Q200 standard in the automotive sector is planned for the second quarter of 2020, with the start of production scheduled for the fourth quarter of the same year.
Integrated Device Technology (IDT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced the OB1203, a fully integrated all-in-one biosensor module for mobile and wearable devices. The OB1203 is the smallest sensor of its kind.
In addition to non-invasive measurement of heart rate and blood oxygen levels, the OB1203 module integrates additional sensors needed in the latest generation mobile devices, including an ambient light sensor (ALS), an RGB color sensor, a proximity sensor, and a pulse oximeter biosensor. This module comes in a tiny, optically-enhanced package at only 4.2 mm × 2 mm × 1.2 mm, and includes two LEDs, drivers, the sensors and a signal conditioning chip that outputs all sensor data on an I2C bus.
A key feature of the OB1203 is its antiallergenic glass cover, which allows it to be used in applications requiring direct skin contact. An additional advantage of the OB1203 is the ability to operate when covered with IR-inked glass, allowing product designers to almost entirely conceal the OB1203 for a cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing product design.
The OB1203 comes with clinical-grade heart rate (HR) and Sp02 algorithms, an easily customized Android app, and only requires power and three data lines to operate.
Features
Biosensor:
SpO2 measurement behind IR transmissive, but visibly dark ink
Industry’s smallest package: 4.2mm × 2mm × 1.2mm
Fully integrated and trimmed module including two LEDs, 250mA max drive current and photo detectors
High SNR and Crosstalk cancelation (analog and digital)
Ambient Light / Color Sensor:
High lux accuracy across various light sources
Absolute sensitivity: 0.06 lx to > 150,000 lx
Output resolution LS/CS: 13 to 20 bits
Four LS/CS gain modes: x1 to x6
Highly linear output, 50Hz/60Hz light and fluorescent light flicker immunity
Proximity Sensor:
Integrated and trimmed LED source, driver (250mA) and photodetector
High resolution (12 to 16 bits)
Object movement detection (in/out)
Ambient light suppression > 100 klx sun light
OB1203 samples and evaluation kits with Bluetooth® or USB data connectivity are available online by request.
1GSa/sec sampling and 24Mpts memory depth make this economical 2-channel scope stand out from the crowd.
Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the Rigol Technologies DS1202Z-E 200MHz Two-channel Oscilloscope, an important expansion of their oscilloscope portfolio. The DS1202Z-E comes standard with 24Mpts of waveform memory, a 60,000 frame-segmented record mode, standard serial decode and triggering capability, high resolution FFT, 15 trigger types and 37 integrated measurements. These features make the DS1202Z-E a powerful, capable, and affordable debug and analysis tool for design engineers. With 200MHz Bandwidth and a 1.75 nanosecond risetime, the DS1202Z-E provides the performance needed to visualize signal artifacts on higher speed signals.
The DS1000Z family of digital oscilloscopes has long been a favorite of educators, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, and embedded engineers. Its combination of performance, capabilities, quality and price made the DS1000Z family the world’s most popular oscilloscope. The new DS1202Z-E builds on that legacy by delivering a powerful 200MHz version for just $369.
Specifications:
Analog channel bandwidth: 200 MHz
2 analog channels
Real-time sample rate up to 1 GSa/s
Memory depth up to 24 Mpts
Up to 30,000 wfms/s waveform capture rate
Up to 60,000 frames hardware real-time waveform recording and playback functions
Various interfaces: USB Host&Device, LAN (LXI), AUX
Compact size, light weight, easy to use
7 inch WVGA (800×480) TFT LCD, intensity graded color display
DS1000Z-E series is a high-performance and economic digital oscilloscope designed for the designing, debugging and educational requirements of the mainstream digital oscilloscope market. Made by Rigol Technologies Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision electronic instrumentation for test and measurement, the DS1202Z-E 200MHz Two-channel Oscilloscope is available now from Saelig Company, Inc., their USA technical distributor.
The ARX3A0 is designed to be ultra-miniature (1/10th-inch optical format) and ultra-low-power image sensor, bringing new options to IoT devices, drones, and robotics
The ARX3A0 is designed to be ultra-miniature (1/10th-inch optical format) and ultra-low-power image sensor, bringing new options to IoT devices, drones, and robotics. The product has an innovative super low power mode which draws only 3.2 mW while active and can detect motion or changes in lighting conditions and wake the rest of the system up. With its high frame rate of 360 frames per second (fps), the ARX3A0 can behave like a global shutter sensor in many circumstances, while still having all the benefits of power, size and performance of a 2.2 µm rolling shutter pixel.
Key features
Ultra Small 1/10th-inch Optical Format
Super-Low Power Mode and Motion Detection Function with Smart Wake
High Frame Rate (360 FPS)
Ultra-Fast Electronic Rolling Shutter
Additional features
Small Die Size 3.35 mm x 3.40 mm
560 (H) x 560 (V) [1:1] VGA resolution in a square at 360 frames per second
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