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MCUs Eye Software Add-Ons to Boost IoT Security

MCUs Eye Software Add-Ons to Boost IoT Security

Security is becoming a key beneficiary in the evolution of software development kits (SDKs) in the IoT era.


News May 14, 2018 by Majeed Ahmad
Switching Regulators with the Size and Simplicity of a Linear Regulator (LDO), from Maxim Integrated

Switching Regulators with the Size and Simplicity of a Linear Regulator (LDO), from Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated recently announced their new Himalaya uSLIC power modules: the MAXM17532 and the MAXM15462.


News May 11, 2018 by Nick Davis
MINMAX’s MIZI03 3W DC-DC Converters and a Look at Standards for Railway Applications

MINMAX’s MIZI03 3W DC-DC Converters and a Look at Standards for Railway Applications

MINMAX has recently introduced the MIZI03 series of converters for railway applications.


News May 10, 2018 by Kate Smith
Teardown Tuesday: Cost-Saving Design Measures in an Android 6 Smartwatch

Teardown Tuesday: Cost-Saving Design Measures in an Android 6 Smartwatch

In this teardown, we rip in to a Bluetooth-enabled smartwatch, which also has a built-in camera, by Style Asia.


News May 08, 2018 by Nick Davis
Stanford Researchers Learn More about the Promise of Superconductors with Strontium Titanate

Stanford Researchers Learn More about the Promise of Superconductors with Strontium Titanate

Researchers at Stanford have recently discovered that strontium titanate, a non-metal, has superconductive properties.


News May 07, 2018 by Donald Krambeck
The Cryptocurrency Mining Craze: Energy Consumption, Hardware, and the Controversies in Between

The Cryptocurrency Mining Craze: Energy Consumption, Hardware, and the Controversies in Between

Cryptocurrency mining has become so rampant that it has had a fairly significant impact on the GPU market and even electricity theft.


News May 04, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
High Efficiencies, Small Package: An Integrated Boost (Step-Up) Module Regulator from Analog Devices

High Efficiencies, Small Package: An Integrated Boost (Step-Up) Module Regulator from Analog Devices

Linear Tech's new boost (step-up) module regulator comes in a small BGA package and offers high efficiencies.


News May 03, 2018 by Nick Davis
Teardown Tuesday: Uniden CB Radio

Teardown Tuesday: Uniden CB Radio

In this teardown, we disassemble a CB radio, from Uniden, to see what interesting things we can find.


News May 01, 2018 by Nick Davis
Measure Currents of Up to 50, 150, 400 Amps: A Galvanically Isolated Current Sensor IC

Measure Currents of Up to 50, 150, 400 Amps: A Galvanically Isolated Current Sensor IC

Allegro Microsystems announces a new family of current sensors for AC or DC current-sensing applications.


News Apr 30, 2018 by Nick Davis
How Facial Recognition Technology Is Changing Everything from Law Enforcement to Astronomy

How Facial Recognition Technology Is Changing Everything from Law Enforcement to Astronomy

Today, facial recognition technology can be deployed in a variety of ways for many purposes from security to social media.


News Apr 27, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Lower Current Consumption, Smaller Footprints: The Reengineering of DC-DC Converters in the IoT Era

Lower Current Consumption, Smaller Footprints: The Reengineering of DC-DC Converters in the IoT Era

A new generation of DC-DC converters is lowering current consumption to unprecedented levels while aiming to offer greater design flexibility and space on the board.


News Apr 26, 2018 by Majeed Ahmad
The Invention of FORTRAN to Moore’s Law: The April 2018 Hardware History Roundup

The Invention of FORTRAN to Moore’s Law: The April 2018 Hardware History Roundup

Here's a look at some major milestones in hardware history for the month of April beginning in 1957 with the invention of FORTRAN to the introduction of the Windows 3.1 operating system in 1992.


News Apr 25, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Teardown Tuesday: Battery Charger

Teardown Tuesday: Battery Charger

In this teardown, we open up a six-pack sequential battery-charging station, from Milwaukee.


News Apr 24, 2018 by Nick Davis
Reader Question: What Do You Wish You Had on Your Bench?

Reader Question: What Do You Wish You Had on Your Bench?

If you could build your dream bench, what would you put on it?


News Apr 20, 2018 by Kate Smith
A New Generation of Long-Distance Laser-Ranging: A New Time-of-Flight Sensor from STMicroelectronics

A New Generation of Long-Distance Laser-Ranging: A New Time-of-Flight Sensor from STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics recently announced their new laser-ranging time-of-flight sensor with a range of up to 4 meters.


News Apr 20, 2018 by Nick Davis
Optimizing for the Smart Grid: A Look at Infineon’s MIPAQ Intelligent Power Module

Optimizing for the Smart Grid: A Look at Infineon’s MIPAQ Intelligent Power Module

This News Brief looks at Infineon's Intelligent Power Module (IPM), the MIPAQ Pro, which has been updated for use in smart grid applications.


News Apr 19, 2018 by Donald Krambeck
Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Power System Design: An Interview with Dr. Sudipta Chakraborty

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Power System Design: An Interview with Dr. Sudipta Chakraborty

Sudipta Chakraborty is the Director of Energy Systems at OPAL-RT. In this Engineer Spotlight, he speaks about challenges facing power system design, how hardware-in-the-loop simulations are important for problem-solving with grid integration, and his work on the IEEE-1547 standard for power grid test procedures.


News Apr 18, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
What Is an aCOT? A New Synchronous DC-to-DC Buck Converter from Diodes Incorporated

What Is an aCOT? A New Synchronous DC-to-DC Buck Converter from Diodes Incorporated

Diodes Incorporated recently released an adaptive constant on-time (aCOT) synchronous DC-to-DC buck converter that offers high efficiencies and an improved transient response.


News Apr 18, 2018 by Nick Davis
Teardown Tuesday: Space Heater

Teardown Tuesday: Space Heater

In this teardown, we dissect a rotating space heater that has two modes of operation: silence and turbo.


News Apr 17, 2018 by Nick Davis
Low Noise, Low Power, High Speed: An 18-bit, 2 MSPS Precision SAR ADC from Analog Devices

Low Noise, Low Power, High Speed: An 18-bit, 2 MSPS Precision SAR ADC from Analog Devices

The AD4002 from Analog Devices is a low-noise, low-power, and high-speed 18-bit successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter.


News Apr 16, 2018 by Nick Davis