Articles - Interfaces - 2

Part 1 NFC Applications NFC has many potential uses. However, the primary target application is mobile payments. Instead of using a credit card, customers at stores and other venues will use their NFC-embedded smart phone as the payment device. ...

Soon, smart phones will include near-field communications (NFC) wireless technology so they can be used like keys or credit cards. Users simply wave their phone near an NFC reader, or tap it, and the devices exchange data to make a transaction. ...

Stephen Evanczuk EDN Don’t throw out your mouse or abandon your touchpad just yet, but traditional human-machine interface devices that rely on two-dimensional, x-y positional information could soon share your desktop or phone with a coming ...

Maury Wright, Electronic Products While engineers often think about a microcontroller (MCU) in terms of integrating the peripherals needed for the application at hand, there are many instances in which adding functionality external to the MCU is ...

Setting the bar even higher Capacitive touchscreens provide an appealing user interface for many applications. However, the real world offers challenges for any portable electronic device, and capacitive touchscreens are no exception. Chargers, ...