Secure MCU Targets Biometric Cards

From circuitcellar.com 1 year ago in News

STMicroelectronics has announced its latest-generation ST31 secure microcontroller. It facilitates advanced security for contact and contactless payment cards, ID cards, and transport ticketing. The ST31N600, based on ST’s 40nm eSTM technology, integrates circuitry for energy harvesting and additional connectivity used by biometric and dynamic card verification (dCVV) applications, enabling battery-free...

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Altronix Showcases Power and Data Transfer

From circuitcellar.com 2 days ago in News

Just about a month ago, Altronix showcased its latest power and data transfer products at ISC in New York City. The company has stated its solutions increase system capacity while taking up less space in overall design situations. This enables...

Laird is Offering Eight New Sub-GHz Peel-and-Stick Antennas

From circuitcellar.com 2 days ago in News

Laird is offering eight new sub-GHz peel-and-stick antennas. Laird Connectivity is now offering a series of new internal antennas with support for the 868MHz and 915MHz frequency bands. The antennas come in the Planar Inverted-F FlexPIFA and the Inverted FlexPIFA...

Sierra is Offering an LPWA Module with Multi-mode LTE-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS Networks

From circuitcellar.com 2 days ago in News

Sierra is offering an LPWA module with Multi-mode LTE-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS networks. Sierra Wireless HL7800 LPWA module is claiming best-in-class power performance in multi-modes. The module is designed for Cat-M1/NB1 worldwide networks while being completely compliant with the 3GPP...

Toradex Introduces the Torizon Platform Focused on Linux IoT Devices

From circuitcellar.com 3 days ago in News

Toradex introduces the Torizon Platform focused on Linux IoT devices. It’s all about simplifying the development and operation of the Internet of Things devices, that run on the Linux operating system. Toradex has developed a platform they say will seamlessly...

The Sky Might Be Falling, Soonish

From circuitcellar.com 3 days ago in News

By the time you’re reading this, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, will have been available to the public for at least four months. By today’s standards, that could well mean it’s already old hat—especially if the robot uprising has...

April (issue #393) Circuit Cellar

From circuitcellar.com 3 days ago in News

Click here for the Circuit Cellar article code archive This issue is available in PDF format from our webshop.As individual articles are made available on the website they will be linked on the TOC page-here 4: Joulescope JS220: A Precision...

Debugging Embedded Real-Time Systems

From circuitcellar.com 3 days ago in News

Tools to Help Us Debug This month, Bob continues his series on debugging embedded real-time systems. We will look at the kind of tools needed for debugging embedded systems that require us to plan ahead. In 1975, I was designing...

New Global Ecosystem Introduced by MediaTek

From circuitcellar.com 4 days ago in News

New global ecosystem introduced by MediaTek. These are consumer-ready Wi-Fi 7 products being showcased at CES 2023. MediaTek will be demonstrating a full ecosystem of production-ready devices all featuring next-gen connectivity for wireless development. The products in this demonstration are...

Capacitive Touch Keyboard for Synthesizers

From circuitcellar.com 5 days ago in News

The LMS101 Project Mechanical keyboards are bulky and expensive when implemented in synthesizer designs. With the advent of capacitive touch technologies, MCUs and DACs, these Camosun College Electronics students juxtapose their analog synthesizer voice of yesteryear with a digital touch...

Don’t Touch That!

From circuitcellar.com 6 days ago in News

You Don’t Know Where It’s Been Touchpads and touchscreens have largely replaced mousepads on laptop computers. They are fast, easy to use, and don’t require complex mouse navigation. In this article, Jeff focuses on resistive touchscreens—which respond by applying pressure—and...