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How to Build a Particulate Matter Detector for Air Quality Measurement

How to Build a Particulate Matter Detector for Air Quality Measurement

Use a Honeywell particle sensor to measure 2.5 µm PM and 10.0 µm PM concentrations in your environment.


The Gentleman Maker’s Auto-Apologizer: A Clever, Polite Device for the Everyday Brit

The Gentleman Maker’s Auto-Apologizer: A Clever, Polite Device for the Everyday Brit

One of the biggest fears many British people face is forgetting to say sorry. This project is designed to automatically apologize when the user bumps into an object.


Projects Mar 28, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
MIT’s Encryption Chip Reduces Public-Key Encryption Power Consumption by 99.75%

MIT’s Encryption Chip Reduces Public-Key Encryption Power Consumption by 99.75%

Encryption takes energy. MIT's public-key encryption chip reportedly reduces encryption energy consumption by 99.75%.


News Mar 28, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
AC Energy Metering: A Single-Phase Energy-Metering IC with Autocalibration from Analog Devices

AC Energy Metering: A Single-Phase Energy-Metering IC with Autocalibration from Analog Devices

The ADE9153A from Analog Devices is a single-phase energy-metering IC that includes autocalibration.


News Mar 27, 2018 by Nick Davis
Texas Instruments TPS54424 4A Synchronous SWIFT Step-Down Converters | New Product Brief

Texas Instruments TPS54424 4A Synchronous SWIFT Step-Down Converters | New Product Brief

Texas Instruments’ TPS54424 is a 4A synchronous SWIFT Step-Down Converter that is optimized to minimize solution size.


Understanding PLL Applications: Frequency Multiplication

Understanding PLL Applications: Frequency Multiplication

This article explains how a PLL can be used to produce a high-frequency clock from a low-frequency reference signal.


A Simple Method of Driving Low-Current LED Strips: Current Regulators from Diodes Incorporated

A Simple Method of Driving Low-Current LED Strips: Current Regulators from Diodes Incorporated

Diodes Incorporated has released two new constant-current regulators for powering and dimming low-current LED strips.


News Mar 26, 2018 by Nick Davis
Skyworks Solutions Inc. SKY66114 IoT Front-End Modules | New Product Brief

Skyworks Solutions Inc. SKY66114 IoT Front-End Modules | New Product Brief

Skyworks’ SKY66114 is a fully integrated 2.4 GHz front-end module for Bluetooth Low Energy, 802.15.4, and ZigBee, making it easy to implement wireless communications in IoT applications.


Will GaN Take Over Audio, Automotive? GaN Systems Talks Gallium Nitride Applications

Will GaN Take Over Audio, Automotive? GaN Systems Talks Gallium Nitride Applications

Gallium nitride, or GaN, was a hot topic among power companies at APEC 2018. AAC's Karissa Manske had the chance to ask GaN Systems CEO, Jim Witham, about what GaN's capable of and where we'll see it in the future.


News Mar 24, 2018 by Karissa Manske
Silicon Labs Si5332 6/8/12-Output Any-Frequency Clock Generators | New Product Brief

Silicon Labs Si5332 6/8/12-Output Any-Frequency Clock Generators | New Product Brief

Silicon Labs Si5332 are designed to replace multiple clocks ICs and oscillators.


Average Power Consumption Monitoring: Maxim’s New Four-Channel Power Accumulator

Average Power Consumption Monitoring: Maxim’s New Four-Channel Power Accumulator

Maxim Integrated recently announced an SMBus, four-channel average-power monitoring IC.


News Mar 23, 2018 by Nick Davis
Power Integrations’ InnoSwitch3-Pro Allows In-Field Programmability for Rapid-Charge Designs

Power Integrations’ InnoSwitch3-Pro Allows In-Field Programmability for Rapid-Charge Designs

The key target of the InnoSwitch3-Pro is to support both fast-charging protocols in consumer devices, and non-charging applications requiring either a load-controlled or configurable output.


News Mar 22, 2018 by Karissa Manske
A Triple Output Voltage Controller from Linear Technology: Two Bucks and a Boost

A Triple Output Voltage Controller from Linear Technology: Two Bucks and a Boost

This triple-output DC/DC controller offers two buck converters, each with an output voltage range of 0.8 to 24 V, and a boost converter that can produce up to 60 V.


News Mar 22, 2018 by Nick Davis
Molex High Current Universal Clamp Terminal Blocks | Tech Specs

Molex High Current Universal Clamp Terminal Blocks | Tech Specs

Like oil and water, aluminum and copper don’t mix, but Molex High-Current, Universal Clamp Terminal Blocks let you terminate aluminum and copper wires without worrying about oxidation and high contact resistance.


new products Mar 22, 2018 by TTI, Inc
RECOM RAC05-K Series AC/DC Power Supply Modules | New Product Brief

RECOM RAC05-K Series AC/DC Power Supply Modules | New Product Brief

RECOM’s RAC05-K series are lightweight, fully encapsulated 5 W AC/DC power supply modules.


Designing and Simulating an Optimized Phase-Locked Loop

Designing and Simulating an Optimized Phase-Locked Loop

In this article we’ll explore PLL transient-response optimization using simulations and a design example.


Sprint’s Bid to Have 5G in 2019 Using Massive MIMO

Sprint’s Bid to Have 5G in 2019 Using Massive MIMO

The race for 5G implementation is on. Sprint hopes to use Massive MIMO systems to bridge the gap between 4G and 5G and bring 5G towers to six cities in 2019.


News Mar 21, 2018 by Tim Youngblood
MOSQUITO Attack Uses Headphones, Speakers, and Microphones to Leak Data Over Ultrasonic Frequencies

MOSQUITO Attack Uses Headphones, Speakers, and Microphones to Leak Data Over Ultrasonic Frequencies

A cybersecurity research group in Israel has recently published a paper in which they describe the MOSQUITO attack—an attack that can reverse speakers and microphones in air-gapped computers, and use them to send data to one another using ultra-sonic frequencies.


News Mar 20, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Teardown Tuesday: Bluetooth Padlock

Teardown Tuesday: Bluetooth Padlock

The Masterlock Bluetooth Padlock 4400D is a digital padlock that can be operated through button presses on a keypad or through a phone app.


News Mar 20, 2018 by Mark Hughes
Molex Micro-Lock Plus Connectors | New Product Brief

Molex Micro-Lock Plus Connectors | New Product Brief

Molex Micro-Lock Plus connectors are high-temperature wire-to-board connectors that provide secure mating without sacrificing compactness.