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ON Semiconductor’s IoT Development Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

ON Semiconductor’s IoT Development Kit | Featured Product Spotlight

ON Semiconductor’s IoT development kit is a development platform that includes hardware and software modules for rapid implementation of medical, home, and industrial IoT devices.


3 Applications That Should Emphasize Protection and Filtering Solutions

3 Applications That Should Emphasize Protection and Filtering Solutions

Protection and filtering solutions aren’t a new concept, but as systems gain more connectivity in smaller packages, they are more important than ever.


Eliminate Brushes, Reduce Noise: A New Motor-Driver IC from ROHM

Eliminate Brushes, Reduce Noise: A New Motor-Driver IC from ROHM

You can improve performance in motor-control applications by using brushless DC motors and handy driver ICs such as the BU69090NUX.


Building an Infrared Tracker with a PICAXE 14M2 and a Stepper Motor

Building an Infrared Tracker with a PICAXE 14M2 and a Stepper Motor

Tracking an infrared light source is not as difficult as you might think; a 14-pin PICAXE, a stepper motor with a driver IC, three phototransistors, and a few other components will do the trick.


Qualcomm Acquires NXP to Focus on the IoT

Qualcomm Acquires NXP to Focus on the IoT

Qualcomm is set to acquire NXP Semiconductors in a deal worth $47 billion, but how will this affect designers?


News Oct 27, 2016 by Tim Youngblood
Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Multi-Domain Debugging of Embedded IoT Devices with an Oscilloscope

Internet of Things (IoT) devices combine multiple functional cores in highly integrated Wireless Embedded designs and face often challenging long-term battery live time requirement.


TDK Acquires Tronics, Adds More Sensors to IoT War Chest

TDK Acquires Tronics, Adds More Sensors to IoT War Chest

TDK's acquisition of Tronics is a harbinger of the upcoming realignments in the sensor industry.


News Aug 03, 2016 by Majeed Ahmad
Solar Splash: How We Designed a Solar Powered Boat

Solar Splash: How We Designed a Solar Powered Boat

A detailed look at the solar/electric boat that the University of Rochester Solar Splash team built for Solar Splash.


News Jul 02, 2016 by Seth Schaffer
Tesla’s Roadster Motor Technology

Tesla’s Roadster Motor Technology

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 and is an American automotive and energy storage company. This article will focus on how Tesla's Roadster electric motor works. The basics of the car are pretty standard and straightforward, but the intricate details are much more intriguing. It will also detail the key differences between an internal combustion engine and Tesla's electric motor. At just about the size of a watermelon, the motor converts electricity into mechanical power and also acts as a generator, turning mechanical power into electricity.


News Oct 31, 2015 by Donald Krambeck
Upgrade Your Power Wheels with Motor Control Basics

Upgrade Your Power Wheels with Motor Control Basics

Adding variable speed control and battery monitoring to a Power Wheels truck!


Industry 4.0 and Drones

Industry 4.0 and Drones

Sony's joint venture with ZMP into the foray of industrial drones foreshadows their use in Industry 4.0.


News Jul 27, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Industry 4.0 and the Friendly Robot

Industry 4.0 and the Friendly Robot

Rethink Robotics is proving that robots don't have to be in competition with humans, but can instead form collaborative environments that increase efficiency while ensuring safer work places. This collaboration may be the key to industry 4.0: not eliminating the human element, but maximizing it.


News Jul 19, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
IRIS Enables Sophisticated IoT

IRIS Enables Sophisticated IoT

Altierre's new Iris System-on-Chip allows for massive Internet of Things.


News Jun 19, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Renesas Electronics Diminishes Obstacles in IoT and Industrial Markets

Renesas Electronics Diminishes Obstacles in IoT and Industrial Markets

The new Renesas Synergy Platform is designed to aid engineers in the race to market.


News Jun 17, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Osram Introduces First Automotive Camera with Infrared and Visible Capabilities

Osram Introduces First Automotive Camera with Infrared and Visible Capabilities

The first automotive camera with infrared and visible capabilities enables advancements in driver safety and accident avoidance.


News Jun 03, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Use an Arduino to Control a Motor

Use an Arduino to Control a Motor

Controlling a motor with an Arduino is relatively easy. In addition to simply spinning the motor, you can control the position of the motor shaft if the motor has a rotary encoder.


Projects Jun 03, 2015 by Tim Youngblood
Mad with Power: An Introduction to Power Processing

Mad with Power: An Introduction to Power Processing

The core concept of power processing can be explained together with several significant applications of power electronics. Power electronics is the technology of processing and controlling the flow of electric power by modifying and supplying the voltage and current in a form that is best suitable to the customer at the load end.