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Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Whether you are just starting your first year as an engineering student, working on a second or third degree, or simply want to brush up on key topics, All About Circuits has the resources you need: awesome textbooks, technical articles, calculators, and more for your EE studies.


News Oct 11, 2023 by Jeff Child
Microchip Claims Industry’s First Low Pin Count MCU Family With I3C Support

Microchip Claims Industry’s First Low Pin Count MCU Family With I3C Support

Microchip’s latest MCU shows that big things can come in small packages.


News Sep 29, 2023 by Aaron Carman
MIPI Alliance Reports Successful Plugfest of Three I3C Specifications

MIPI Alliance Reports Successful Plugfest of Three I3C Specifications

This year’s Plugfest helped validate I3C and build out its ecosystem amongst some of the industry’s leaders.


News Sep 28, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Autonomous Robot Takes to the Soccer Field to Aim, Pass, and Score

Autonomous Robot Takes to the Soccer Field to Aim, Pass, and Score

To play a complex sport, this competitive robot uses multiple processors and local computer vision.


News Aug 22, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Infineon Puts More Under the Hood of New MCU-embedded Power ICs

Infineon Puts More Under the Hood of New MCU-embedded Power ICs

Built for automotive motor control, the new chips pack power electronics, microcontrollers, and communications circuitry in one chip.


News Aug 11, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Renesas Continues Acquisition Trail, Now Pursuing Sequans’ Cellular IP

Renesas Continues Acquisition Trail, Now Pursuing Sequans’ Cellular IP

First, it was Dialog Semiconductor. Then it was Celano and Panthronics. Now, Renesas is after 4G/5G specialist Sequans in its latest string of IoT-focused acquisitions.


News Aug 08, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Renesas MCUs/MPUs Can Now Be Programmed With Visual Studio Code

Renesas MCUs/MPUs Can Now Be Programmed With Visual Studio Code

By adding support for a familiar text editor, Renesas hopes to reach a new market of firmware designers.


News Aug 07, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Haptics Development Board is Small Enough to Fit Inside Your Lightsaber

Haptics Development Board is Small Enough to Fit Inside Your Lightsaber

Aimed at easing the process of developing devices that require HD haptics, Titan Haptics has unveiled a tiny board designed both for development and and for embedding into your design.


News Aug 02, 2023 by Jeff Child
Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Emerging from stealth mode, HaiLa believes they can enable a future of IoT nodes without batteries.


News Aug 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Nuvoton Announces New 8-bit MCUs for Battery-free Designs

Nuvoton Announces New 8-bit MCUs for Battery-free Designs

Designs without a power source may find much more in their power budget.


News Jul 10, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Toshiba’s New MCUs Support Firmware Updates Without Pausing Operation

Toshiba’s New MCUs Support Firmware Updates Without Pausing Operation

The new family of microcontrollers is designed to enable over-the-air firmware updates without interrupting the execution of instructions.


News Jun 29, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Particle Launches Resources To Take IoT from Prototype to Production

Particle Launches Resources To Take IoT from Prototype to Production

At its annual Spectra conference, today Particle is rolling out hardware and software products aimed at making IoT more accessible for all.


News Jun 21, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Renesas Unveils Over 35 New Motor Control MCUs

Renesas Unveils Over 35 New Motor Control MCUs

With over 35 new MCU offerings across 3 families, Renesas hopes to make motor control easier for designers.


News Jun 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
TinyML Summit: Designing Multi-model Smart HMIs

TinyML Summit: Designing Multi-model Smart HMIs

At TinyML Summit 2023, NXP presented an approach to developing smart human-machine interfaces (HMI).


News May 02, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Targeting Automotive, Infineon Spins Industry’s First LPDDR Flash Memory

Targeting Automotive, Infineon Spins Industry’s First LPDDR Flash Memory

To meet the new demands of automotive zonal architectures, Infineon marries flash memory with an LPDDR interface to enable more performance and scalability than xSPI NOR flash.


News Apr 20, 2023 by Jeff Child
Two Firms Collaborate to Reimagine the Role of the Secure Element

Two Firms Collaborate to Reimagine the Role of the Secure Element

The new architecture has the secure element as the Master, while the CPU serves as the Subordinate.


News Apr 18, 2023 by Jake Hertz
TI Launches Pair of Wi-Fi 6 Companion ICs to Serve IoT System Designs

TI Launches Pair of Wi-Fi 6 Companion ICs to Serve IoT System Designs

As Wi-Fi 6-enabled IoT devices proliferate into the billions, TI’s new Wi-Fi 6 companion chips are aimed at meeting the challenges associated with this crowded landscape.


News Apr 18, 2023 by Jeff Child
Renesas Adds First 22nm MCU to Popular RA 32-bit Cortex-M Family

Renesas Adds First 22nm MCU to Popular RA 32-bit Cortex-M Family

By moving to 22nm, Renesas hopes to improve performance and power consumption in its RA family.


News Apr 12, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Renesas Unveils RISC-V MCU for Voice-controlled HMI Designs

Renesas Unveils RISC-V MCU for Voice-controlled HMI Designs

The latest chip from Renesas adds voice recognition to the industry’s RISC-V ecosystem.


News Apr 04, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Modules and Dev Kits Emerge for Building Amazon Sidewalk Devices

Modules and Dev Kits Emerge for Building Amazon Sidewalk Devices

As the company opens Sidewalk up for testing, the service from Amazon could have big implications in the IoT and smart home space.


News Mar 29, 2023 by Jake Hertz