The first STM32 MCU based on Arm Cortex-M33 core was the ultra-low-power STM32L5 microcontroller, and the company is now following with the STM32U5 series also designed for smart applications including wearables, personal medical devices, home automation, and industrial sensors. The...

Using a PIC32 MCU It’s not easy to hold a heavy camera for a long period. With that in mind, these three Cornell students designed and implemented a 2-axis, gesture-controlled camera platform based on a Microchip PIC32 MCU that maps...

Microcontrollers used to be those cute little chips clocked at 8 MHz, but it’s now common to have MCUs clocked at one or two hundred Megahertz, and with Cortex-M7 cores, several hundred Megahertz is now possible, and NXP even pushed...

Most laptops are not made to be serviced by the end-users or expanded. In the part of the world where I live, I still have a “warranty void” sticker if I open my laptop to add an M.2 SSD. There...

Since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 launch last fall, we’ve seen several interesting carrier boards for the system-on-module including Wiretrustee to build a NAS with up to four SATA drives, the compact, Arduino-sized Piunora board that also include an...

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A Wire to Nowhere Wires—either as cabling or PCB traces—connecting components are fundamental to any electronic system. But wires that go to nowhere, called stub filters, can have a useful role as well. In this article, Robert helps you understand...

Sony Semiconductor Israel, previously known as Altair Semiconductor, has announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT (NB2) chipset. The 5G-ready chip comes with an integrated SIM, a user MCU, and a GSM/GPRS fallback modem. Sony Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT chipset...

Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon XR2 5G VR Reference Design last year based on their latest Snapdragon XR2 virtual/extended reality processor. But the company never designed a reference design for the earlier Snapdragon XR1 that was found in Google Glass Enterprise...

Arduino Oplà IoT Kit was launched last fall as the first open programmable IoT platform from the company. The kit included everything you need to create your own IoT devices with MKR IoT carrier with a 1.3-inch OLED color display, ...

"Build or buy" is an age-old question. But more importantly, why do you even license IP? When it comes to bus IP, let us count the ways. The post Licensing Interconnect IP for Fun & Profit appeared first on EETimes.

StereoPi stereoscopic camera based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 was introduced in late 2019 on Crowd Supply.  The camera can record 3D video, create 3D depth maps with OpenCV, and benefits from the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem. The developers...

CPRI is inefficient in terms of bandwidth usage. The proposed Radio over Ethernet standard defines several methods to packetize CPRI streams using Ethernet frames. The post CPRI Traffic Convergence with Radio over Ethernet appeared first on EETimes.

Supercomputers deploy massive number of cores working together to run highly parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) applications for long durations in the range of minutes, hours, or days. As the tasks of these applications communicate with each other intensively, the...

Elecrow develops and manufactures electronics products for the maker market, and in recent years entered the STEM education market with products such as CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi 4 education laptop that I reviewed last year. The laptop integrates plenty of electronics...

While it’s possible to use Raspberry Pi Pico with a breadboard or Veroboard, we’ve seen the benefits of inserting the board into a baseboard such as Maker Pi Pico providing LEDs, a MicroSD card, audio output, and the ability to...

Traffic intersections are expected to get smarter, relieving traffic congestion. The post Smart Traffic Management at a Crossroads appeared first on EETimes.

Haptic feedback is likely to be increasingly used in AR/VR, military gear, high-end industrial equipment, and advanced surgical robotic assistants. The post ‘Critical’ year ahead for haptics market appeared first on EETimes.

RISC-V open architecture allows designers to implement their own instructions, and some of those may become an official RISC-V extension. But the process to approve a new extension may have been suboptimal, so RISC-V International has just unveiled the Fast...

I Googled "sleep headbands" designed specifically to help people get to sleep, and found insomniacs appear to be big business. The post Insomnia? Technology to the Rescue! appeared first on EETimes.

EE Times is rolling out a new virtual conference that lays out the “Roadmap to Next-Gen EV & AV.” The event is scheduled between March 23 and March 25. The post EE Times Presents: Roadmap to Next-Gen EV & AV...