Monitor PSU voltage and current via a single pin
Can a microcontroller monitor power supply current and voltage through a single analogue pin? Yes, now that Microchip has introduced its PAC1921, which does just that. The trick is that it also has a serial bus that tells the analogue output whether it is representing passing current or rail voltage at any given moment. The two-wire ...
Intel has cut its capex forecast again – the fourth time this year – and it now stands at $7.3bn (plus or minus half a billion) down from the $10.3bn figure of late last year. Samsung, after a reported 20% capex cut in September, will spend $12bn, TSMC $10.8bn, Intel $7.3bn, GloFo $4.7bn and Hynix ...
Intel has cut its capex forecast again – the fourth time this year – and it now stands at $7.3bn (plus or minus half a billion) down from the $10.3bn figure of late last year. Samsung, after a reported 20% capex cut in September, will spend $12bn, TSMC $10.8bn, Intel $7.3bn, GloFo $4.7bn and Hynix ...
Renesas offers Cortex-M4 MCUs with Synergy RTOS and stacks
Renesas Electronics has announced the first ARM Cortex-M series microcontrollers in its new Synergy embedded design platform which is notable for offering a supported real-time operating systems and pre-certified application software and firmware stacks. The microcontrollers, which are the supplier’s first ARM Cortex devices, are the S7G2, which is a 240MHz Cortex-M4 CPU core with ...
Renesas offers Cortex-M4 MCUs with RTOS and stacks
Renesas Electronics has announced the first ARM Cortex-M series microcontrollers in its new Synergy embedded design platform which is notable for offering a supported real-time operating systems and pre-certified application software and firmware stacks. The microcontrollers, which are the supplier’s first ARM Cortex devices, are the S7G2, which is a 240MHz Cortex-M4 CPU core with ...
Programmable analogue ICs are route to cost-efficiency
Design reuse can apply to analogue circuits as much as to digital, writes Steve Logan, who describes what programmable analogue devices can offer a designer. What would you, an IC system designer, put into an ideal programmable analog device? Start with 20 ports of programmable ADCs, DACs, digital IOs, switches, level translators, and internal and ...
Programmable analogue ICs are route to cost-efficiency
Design reuse can apply to analogue circuits as much as to digital, writes Steve Logan, who describes what programmable analogue devices can offer a designer. What would you, an IC system designer, put into an ideal programmable analog device? Start with 20 ports of programmable ADCs, DACs, digital IOs, switches, level translators, and internal and ...
ADI to offer big data analysis with sensors
Analog Devices is the latest semiconductor supplier to partner with a cloud services company to support its devices for the emerging internet of things (IoT) market. ARM is working is IBM for its secure internet connections, and last week a group of distributors including Arrow and Avnet teamed up with Amazon for cloud services. Now ...
ADI to offer big data analysis with sensors
Analog Devices is the latest semiconductor supplier to partner with a cloud services company to support its devices for the emerging internet of things (IoT) market. ARM is working is IBM for its secure internet connections, and last week a group of distributors including Arrow and Avnet teamed up with Amazon for cloud services. Now ...
Happy landings for Intersil ToF IC
Intersil is selling an innovative, small, sub-$5, time-of-flight (ToF) signal processing IC which delivers object detection and distance measurement when combined with an external emitter (LED or laser) and photodiode. “It’s a very unique IC with very complex signal processing,” says Andy Cowell, svp for mobile at Intersil. The ISL29501 overcomes the shortcomings of traditional ...
