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Microchip Delivers First 8-bit MCU Family
Microchip Delivers First 8-bit MCU Family for CAN FD Networks
Dec 28, 2020 News

Microchip Technology announced its PIC18-Q84 family – the first PIC18 microcontroller (MCU) family that can be used to transmit and receive data through a Controller Area Network Flexible Data-Rate (CAN FD) bus...

Texas Instruments Introduced Nano 125 nA
Texas Instruments Introduced Nano 125 nA IQ, 1% Accurate Voltage Supervisor, Push-Button Monitor with Programmable Sense and Reset Delay
Dec 17, 2020 News

Texas Instruments introduced nano-IQ, precision voltage supervisor TPS3899 that monitors system voltages or pushbutton inputs as low as 0.51 V...

Tips tricks optimizing your voltage supervisor
Tips and tricks for optimizing your voltage supervisor
Nov 17, 2020 Articles

Voltage supervisors have provided analog voltage monitoring to digital circuits for decades. Texas Instruments released the original TL7705 in 1983; it consumed 1.8 mA, came in a plastic dual-inline package and you can still purchase it today...

HOLTEK New HT68F2420 IR Driver MCU
HOLTEK New HT68F2420 IR Driver MCU
Oct 29, 2020 News

Holtek is delighted to announce its new IR driver MCU, the HT68F2420. This new device is suitable for IR remote controllers and IR transmission related products...

Microcontroller controls analog phase shifter
Microcontroller controls analog phase shifter
Oct 26, 2020 Circuits

Phase shifters find use in a variety of circuits, but variation in amplifier and capacitance tolerances usually makes it difficult to control the exact phase shift that precise control circuitry requires...

HOLTEK New 9V Battery BA45F5420 5440
HOLTEK New 9V Battery BA45F5420/ 5440/ 5450 Smoke Detector MCUs
Sep 17, 2020 News

Holtek wishes to announce the release of its new range of 9 V battery Smoke Detector dedicated MCUs, the BA45F5420/BA45F5440/BA45F5450...

Power Supply Analyzer USB Interface based
Power Supply Analyzer with USB Interface based on ATtiny814
Aug 20, 2020 Circuits

The Power Analyzer is a programmable electronic constant current dummy load with two high side voltage and current sensors for an automatic analysis of power supplys, DC/DC converters, voltage regulators, batteries, chargers, power consumers and others...

Novel circuit isolates temperature sensor its
Novel circuit isolates temperature sensor from its host
Jun 30, 2020 Circuits

Temperature sensors must sometimes operate at locations whose return potentials differ considerably from that of the data-acquisition system's common – that is, equipotential – ground...

Ultra-Reliable Arm Cortex-M4F Microcontroller Maxim Integrated
Ultra-Reliable Arm Cortex-M4F Microcontroller from Maxim Integrated Offers Industry's Lowest Power Consumption and Smallest Size for Industrial, Healthcare and IoT Sensor Applications
Jun 30, 2020 News Microcontrollers

Reduce power consumption and size while increasing reliability of industrial, healthcare and internet of things applications with the MAX32670 low-power Arm Cortex®-M4 microcontroller...

PWM DAC settles one period pulse
PWM DAC settles in one period of the pulse train
May 18, 2020 Circuits

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is the best conversion method to use for digitally-controlled variable DC voltage sources requiring high accuracy and resolution...