Happy New Year! The January issue of Circuit Cellar comes out next week! Drone design solutions, air quality monitor project, designing with Smart LEDs, COM Express boards roundup, battery management and more— this 84-page magazine cooks up a tasty feast...

A Closer Look Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) is a powerful method of inserting faults into embedded devices, but what does this give us? In this article, Colin dives into a little more detail of what sort of effects EMFI has...

There are many pressures driving today’s electronic system designs. Demand is higher than ever to push innovation boundaries, while still meeting ever shrinking time-to-market windows. To be successful it’s essential for electronic system designs to make use of rapid, reliable...

Boardcon has launched a “EM-IMX8M-MINI” SBC built around a “SOM-IMX8M-MINI” module that runs Linux on a quad -A53 i.MX8M Mini with 2GB LPDDR4, 8GB eMMC, and WiFi/BT. The SBC adds MIPI-DSI/CSI, GbE, USB, serial, CAN, and M.2.Boardcon has produced a...

Coming to your inbox tomorrow: Circuit Cellar’s Microcontroller Watch newsletter. Tomorrow’s newsletter keeps you up-to-date on latest microcontroller news. In this section, we examine microcontrollers along with their associated tools and support products. Already a Circuit Cellar Newsletter subscriber? Great! You’ll get your...

What is the fundamental principle at work in metastability?

Advances for Automation Industrial automation and process control applications rely heavily on a variety of analog ICs to ensure smooth, reliable system operations. Chip vendors are responding with new solutions across the spectrum of analog ICs, including amplifiers, data converters,...

Using the Cypress PSoC 6 MCU Brian has written articles in the past about projects that use Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC MCUs, including his most recent piece about the variable frequency drive project he built using the SoC5LP MCU. This month,...

U‑blox has announced that Taoglas has developed a centimeter‑level GNSS positioning solution. The system comprises a high precision L1/L2/E5 GNSS receiver, the U‑blox ZED‑F9P, all the required RF electronics and antennas in a single package. Called Taoglas Edge Locate, this...

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced a new audio analog-to-digital converter (ADC) capable of capturing clear audio up to four times farther away than competing devices. TI says that the TLV320ADC5140 the industry’s smallest quad-channel audio ADC with this level of...

TDK has announced the TDK-Lambda brand TPS4000-24 power supply, extending the existing 3000W rated TPS series. Delivering up to 4080W output power (24V at 170A) in a 2U high package, the TPS series operates from a wide range Delta or...

Self-Sufficiency at the IoT Edge While many IoT edge devices often need to be extremely low power, having an ability to harvest their own power is an even better scenario. Chip solutions continue to emerge aimed at the energy harvesting...

Why do manufacturers specify setup and hold times for flip-flops?

Coming to your inbox on Tuesday: Circuit Cellar’s Analog & Power newsletter. This newsletter content zeros in on the latest developments in analog and power technologies including ADCs, DACs, DC-DC converters, AC-DC converters, power supplies, op amps, batteries and more....

Resolution and Speed ADCs and DACs are two of the key IC components that enable digital systems to interact with the real world. Makers of analog ICs are constantly evolving their DAC and ADC chips pushing the barriers of resolution...

Complex Benchmark Development Journey Yields Success The explosive growth of the IoT market looks much different today than the emergence of the embedded market the late 1990s. That said, it does resemble that early period in its lack of meaningful...

Flexibility is Key Vision and artificial intelligence (AI) are megatrends in automation, Industry 4.0 and cyber-virtual factories. Embedded computer technologies for such systems have to meet increasingly complex demands. What’s good enough today may be too little tomorrow – in...

The C code below converts an unsigned 16-bit binary number into its decimal equivalent, in packed BCD format. Does this algorithm extend to other sizes of binary numbers?

Coming to your inbox tomorrow: Circuit Cellar’s Embedded Boards newsletter. Tomorrow’s newsletter content focuses on both standard and non-standard embedded computer boards that ease prototyping efforts and let you smoothly scale up to production volumes. Bonus: We’ve added Drawings for Free Stuff...

Quest for Code Quality The complexity of today’s embedded software keeps pushing the goalposts further out in terms of ensuring good quality code. To keep pace, vendors of code analysis tools are innovating with highly integrated and effective solutions. It...

By Eric Brown Commell’s Linux-friendly “LP-178” Pico-ITX board features Intel’s Whiskey Lake-UE CPUs at up to 4.4 GHz turbo and offers up to 16 GB DDR4, triple displays, SATA III, 2x GbE and 2x 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2...

Click here for the Circuit Cellar article code archive p.6: Build a 4-DOF Robotic Arm (Part 1): Using MATLAB and Arduino, By Raul Alvarez-Torrico References:[1] JGY370 DC motorhttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/32885103266.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dNXYorf[2] PDI-6221MG servo motorhttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/32836917150.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4d9OUi3n[3] 6DOF robotic arm kithttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/32414997293.html[4] https://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_calculator.shtml[5] http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginners-pid-introduction/[6] https://dspguide.com/ch15.htm PID controllerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller...

IAR Systems has launched a new edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm that provides integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, AWS edition, provides developers with the possibility to log in to an AWS account...

Telit has announced that its ME910C1-WW (World Wide) and ME910C1-NA (North America) modules have been certified by U.S. Cellular for its recently launched LTE-M service, a global cellular standard dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT). Well suited for IoT...