Seven Engineers on the Future of Electrical Engineering

From circuitcellar.com 7 years ago in News

The Circuit Cellar staff thought it would be interesting to kick off 2015 by asking several long-time contributors about the future of electrical engineering and embedded systems. Here we present the responses we received to the following questions: What are … Continue reading →

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AC-DC Architecture Enables 7x Efficiency Lift

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

Eggtronic has announced QuarEgg+, a proprietary power architecture that significantly improves the efficiency and reduces the size of AC-DC converters that would traditionally have used active clamp flyback (ACF) and quasi-resonant (QR) topologies. According to the company, the new architecture...

Hacking MCU Pins

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

Repurposing Peripherals Today’s MCUs integrate a rich assortment of functionality. But sometimes there are one or more you wish you had that aren’t available on the device you’re using. Here, Stuart explains how to configure MCU pins to enable you...

SEGGER Dev Tools Add 64-bit RISC-V Support

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

SEGGER’s new release of Embedded Studio for RISC-V adds support for 64-bit RISC-V CPUs, including RV64I, RV64G / RV64E and RV64GC / RV64EC with floating-point unit. It comes integrated with SEGGER’s emRun C/C++ runtime and emFloat floating-point libraries, the SEGGER Linker, and the SEGGER...

PSoC MCUs Get 5th Gen Capacitive Sense Tech

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

Infineon Technologies has launched the company’s fifth-generation CAPSENSE capacitive and inductive touch sensing human-machine interface (HMI) technology. The next-generation CAPSENSE solution embedded in PSoC microcontrollers delivers higher performance and lower power consumption for demanding user interfaces in home appliance, industrial,...

Secure MCU Targets Biometric Cards

From circuitcellar.com 1 month 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...

GaN AC-DC Supplies Deliver Continuous 300W

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

CUI has announced the expansion of two GaN desktop AC-DC power supply series to its SDI product family, broadening their product range for the GaN adapter line. The SDI300G-U and SDI300G-UR offer 300W of continuous power from a compact desktop...

Add GPS to Your Embedded System

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

MCU-Based Design We depend on GPS technology a lot these days, and technology advances have brought fairly powerful GPS functionally into our pockets. Today’s miniaturization of GPS receivers makes it practical to embed a GPS module into your system design....

Tiger Lake Thin Mini-ITX SBC and COMe Module Roll

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

DFI announced a “TGU” line of embedded boards and systems built around Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake UP3 processors with 15-28W TDPs, starting with a thin mini-ITX board and COM Express Compact Type 6 and Mini Type 10 modules. The...

AirTag Teardown and Security Analysis

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Hacker vs. Tracker In this article, Colin takes a look at a recently demonstrated fault injection attack on the AirTag device. While the AirTag alone has a limited attack surface, it opens the door for a variety of additional analysis....

Embedded Controllers Enable Cellular IoT and AI

From circuitcellar.com 4 months ago in News

Alif Semiconductor has announced the launch of its Ensemble and Crescendo (shown) product families. Alif says the devices fill the market need for scalable, power efficient devices that integrate AI/ML acceleration, multi-layered security, LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT connectivity, GNSS positioning...