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Meet the Aquatic Drone Saving the Great Barrier Reef with Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Meet the Aquatic Drone Saving the Great Barrier Reef with Machine Learning and Computer Vision

The Queensland University of Technology has announced that its robotic hunter-killer aquatic drone will now double as a seaborne midwife to save the Great Barrier Reef.


News Nov 07, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
SpiNNaker, the Million-Core Supercomputer, Finally Switched On

SpiNNaker, the Million-Core Supercomputer, Finally Switched On

After 12 years in the making, the computer designed to work like a human brain, at the University of Manchester is finally switched on. What does this computer do? How is it made? And who is Steve Furber?


News Nov 05, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Neutrik NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface | New Product Brief

Neutrik NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface | New Product Brief

Neutrik’s NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface is a PoE-powered Dante adapter providing two inputs and outputs.


Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek recently released a slim "credit card" dev module for its EVE (embedded video engine) IC, the BT81x.


News Oct 24, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Analog Devices LTM46xx µModule Regulators | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices LTM46xx µModule Regulators | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices LTM4600 family of µModule regulators consists of compact, highly integrated buck, boost, and buck-boost regulators in BGA and LGA package.


Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic technology has come a long way in the past few decades and continues to find innovative improvements and applications across industries. Here's a quick look at some recent haptic technology-related news.


News Oct 20, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Micron e.MMC Memory | New Product Brief

Micron e.MMC Memory | New Product Brief

Micron e.MMC memories provide designers a simple solution to mass storage, removing the burden of complex error correction and NAND management.


CUI Micro Audio Components | New Product Brief

CUI Micro Audio Components | New Product Brief

CUI’s family of micro audio components provide designers the versatility to add buzzers, speakers, and microphones in space-constrained IoT designs, mobile products, and miniaturized consumer electronics.


How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

This article presents Scilab code that allows you to generate I/Q, noise, and chirp signals from your PC’s headphone jack.


Bourns Low Ohmic PTC Resettable Fuses | Tech Specs

Bourns Low Ohmic PTC Resettable Fuses | Tech Specs

The Bourns MF-PSML series of low ohmic PTC resettable fuses have holding current ratings up to 3.5 amps in a low-profile 0805 package for mobile and other space-constrained applications.


new products Oct 11, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

This article provides an overview of what an IoT node needs for a faster and simpler implementation of robust security.


KEMET OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors | New Product Brief

KEMET OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics’ OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors provide highly reliable, high speed on/off operation based on atmospheric temperature detection or component overheating, providing safety standard conformity and effective thermal threshold control.


How to Use Your Computer as an Arbitrary Waveform Generator

How to Use Your Computer as an Arbitrary Waveform Generator

In this article, we’ll use Scilab to generate numerical signals that can be converted into analog waveforms by a computer’s audio hardware.


Protect Your Personal Castle With the Gentleman Maker’s Photon Trebuchet

Protect Your Personal Castle With the Gentleman Maker’s Photon Trebuchet

In this Gentleman Maker project, we will use Particle Photon boards to power a motion-sensing trebuchet that can fend off all your mischievous intruders.


Projects Sep 27, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
American Bright E-Paper | Digital Datasheet

American Bright E-Paper | Digital Datasheet

American Bright E-Paper products offer high visibility, a wide viewing angle, and low power consumption with a wide variety of sizes and connectivity options.


Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assembly | Featured Product Spotlight

Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assembly | Featured Product Spotlight

Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assemblies provide high power density in a ruggedized, off-the-shelf cable assembly.


STMicroelectronics STEVAL-SMARTAG1 NFC Sensor Node Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics STEVAL-SMARTAG1 NFC Sensor Node Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics’ NFC Tracker evaluation board is an ultra-low power sensor node with an NFC tag, MCU, and sensors for developing IoT, industrial, retail, and other sensing applications.


Amphenol LTW Waterproof Swift USB Type-C Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol LTW Waterproof Swift USB Type-C Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol LTW Swift-GG series are USB Type-C connectors designed for automotive applications and provide all the benefits of USB Type C with an IP67 rating and high vibration resistance.


Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

This article will review the common FPGA resources that allow us to efficiently generate and distribute clock signals throughout a system.


Why Do We Need Matched Termination with High Speed Logic Families?

Why Do We Need Matched Termination with High Speed Logic Families?

This article will try to develop a better insight into wave reflection that can occur when driving a relatively long wire with a fast logic gate.