4 channel RS485 Remote Controller

4 channel RS485 Remote Controller

4 Channel 2 core twisted pair remote controller built using PT2262, PT2272-M4 IC from Princeton technology and MAX485 IC from...


Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer

Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer

MCUs are called microcontrollers because they embed a CPU, memory and I/O units in one package.


FT234XD – USB to BASIC UART IC

FT234XD – USB to BASIC UART IC

The FT234XD is a USB to serial UART interface with optimised packaging (3mm x 3mm 12 pin DFN) for smaller PCB designs and the...


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SUNY Polytechnic Creates 3-in-1 Device That Can Be A Diode, A MOSFET And A BJT

SUNY Polytechnic Creates 3-in-1 Device That Can Be A Diode, A MOSFET And A BJT

In a recently published study, a team of researchers at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York, has suggested that...


What is Embedded FPGA — Known as eFPGA

What is Embedded FPGA — Known as eFPGA

Today’s market requirements change faster than the typical development time for a new device or the ability of designers of SoCs t...


Arrow’s New FPGA-Based IoT Maker Board

Arrow’s New FPGA-Based IoT Maker Board

Arrow Electronics has introduced a new FPGA IoT Maker Board designed for end-to-end application development and optimised for...


Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip

Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip

Ken Shirriff writes: The 74181 ALU (arithmetic/logic unit) chip powered many of the minicomputers of the 1970s: it provided fast...


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Robust C Library and Utility for GPIO sysfs Interface in Linux

Robust C Library and Utility for GPIO sysfs Interface in Linux

by Derek Hildreth – Technologic Systems This comprehensive and easy to read example C code is designed to work alone or included a...


Reverse-engineering the ALU of 8008 microprocessor

Reverse-engineering the ALU of 8008 microprocessor

Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the ALU of the 8008 microprocessor: A computer’s arithmetic-logic unit ...


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Low-Cost FPGA With Reconfigurable Electronics Feature

Low-Cost FPGA With Reconfigurable Electronics Feature

Iolinker is a cheap 64 FPGA board with a MachXO FPGA that functions as a dynamically configurable IO matrix.


Alarm System Powered By Arduino

Alarm System Powered By Arduino

Dejan Nedelkovski had built an Arduino security and alarm system project that uses an ultrasonic sensor for detecting objects and...


Digital Potentiometer using Optical Encoder – 10KOhms

Digital Potentiometer using Optical Encoder – 10KOhms

The primary application of the project is to replace the mechanical potentiometer with optical encoder which is long life,...