Attiny Programmer (using Arduino UNO)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/attiny-programmer-using-arduino-uno/
by CrtSuznik @ instructables.com: The Arduino UNO is small, but if you require your project to be in a small enclosure, the UNO might be way too big. You could try using a NANO or MINI, but if you really want to go small, you go tiny, Attiny to be precise. They are quite small, […]
20 PIN PIC Development Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/20-pin-pic-development-board/
Small size multipurpose 20 Pin PIC Micro-Controller development board, includes onboard 5V regulator, prototyping area and ICSP programing port. The board provided with few more components which includes 4 optocoupler, 2 LEDs connected to RA5, RC7 with series resistors, 2 tactile switches and 2 Trimmer Potentiometers. These components help to implement Microchip’s AN1660 single phase […]
Making A Pickit 3 Clone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/making-pickit-3-clone/
Make Your Own Pic Programmer and Debugger. by reviahh @ reviahh.wordpress.com After using the Microchip tools to program and debug the projects I work on, I wondered about creating my own programming/debugging module that I could put on my own boards – just like Microchip does with their starter kits and such. As I became […]
STM32 Arduino compatible board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/stm32-arduino-compatible-board/
HardiqV @ instructables.com build an alternative board to Arduino using STM 32 series of mcus. We love the Arduino board and it’s prototyping platform . It makes the complete prototyping process smooth and enjoying with the help of it’s add on such as Arduino IDE and a huge community support.But sooner or later you will […]
Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/todays-mcus-overdesigned-research-team-answer/
MCUs are called microcontrollers because they embed a CPU, memory and I/O units in one package. Apparently, today’s MCUs are full of peripherals and in most cases they are not used in the application, and from an engineering point of view this is a waste of money and energy, but on the other hand, for […]
Breadboard Friendly ATTiny85
https://www.electronics-lab.com/breadboard-friendly-attiny85/
Chris @ chris3d.com build his own Attiny85 board: The modularity of Arduinos is great, but after playing with them for a year or so, I wanted to start building things that needed a little more integration. I also wanted to design the components and programming around the actual controller I’d be using. So, I decided […]
What is Embedded FPGA — Known as eFPGA
https://www.electronics-lab.com/embedded-fpga-known-efpga/
Today’s market requirements change faster than the typical development time for a new device or the ability of designers of SoCs to know. To solve this problem, FPGAs/MCUs are used so developers can change the configuration/firmware later. As known, MCU IP is static and you can’t change the silicon design (RTL design) after fabrication. FPGA […]
Open-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller
https://www.electronics-lab.com/open-v-open-source-risc-v-32bit-mcu/
Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called “Open-V“. Onchip, the startup of the research team, is focusing on integrated systems and is aiming to build the first system-on-chip designed in Colombia. The […]
Cheap ARM Cortex-m0 MCU Printed on Plastic Costs as low as 0.01$
https://www.electronics-lab.com/cheap-arm-cortex-m0-mcu-printed-plastic-costs-low-0-01/
Flexible electronics is one of the emerging technologies with the rise of connected things in IoT age. This increases the need of low cost electronics to use. PragmatIC the specialized company in low cost flexible electronics wants to enable trillions of “smart objects” to sense and communicate with their environment, but the problem is: to […]
FPGAs For MCU Guys
https://www.electronics-lab.com/fpgas-mcu-guys/
by Max Maxfield @ eeweb.com: A little while ago, it struck me that I was getting tired of explaining what FPGAs are and how they work their magic to those of my chums who — thus far — have worked only with microcontrollers (MCUs), so I decided to write a three-part mini-series of articles to […]