Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: A wireless-focused Gecko family of multiprotocol system-SoCs designed to provide flexible connectivity options for Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been launched here at the Nuremberg show by Silicon Labs. The SoCs integ...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 24-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Dissipating sufficient heat from small packages is a long-standing design challenge but industrial systems engineers may well be interested in an IO- Link dual-channel transceiver that dissipates the lowest heat in what Maxi...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 23-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Dissipating sufficient heat from small packages is a long-standing design challenge but industrial systems engineers may well be interested in an IO- Link dual-channel transceiver that dissipates the lowest heat in what Maxi...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 23-02-2016

Often the unsung heroes of electronic design, passive components are present in every piece of electronic equipment from consumer electronics to electric vehicles to spacecraft. Though not often lauded as ‘game-changing’ like semiconductor devices, passive com...

Articles | By Adam Chidley | 18-02-2016

Often the unsung heroes of electronic design, passive components are present in every piece of electronic equipment from consumer electronics to electric vehicles to spacecraft. Though not often lauded as ‘game-changing’ like semiconductor devices, passive com...

Insights | By Adam Chidley | 18-02-2016

The integrated development environment (IDE) technology sector is a pretty crowded and competitive area of business these days and new systems entering it need to have some attention grabbing features rather than a meaningless list of shameless superlatives th...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 17-02-2016

The integrated development environment (IDE) technology sector is a pretty crowded and competitive area of business these days and new systems entering it need to have some attention grabbing features rather than a meaningless list of shameless superlatives th...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 17-02-2016

Everspin’s Duncan Bennett and Anglia’s Andrew Pockson compare the power consumption of Flash, EEPROM and MRAM.    For many wireless and portable applications, especially in the growing Internet of Things, there is a critical energy budget (total power consume...

Technical Analysis | By Electropages | 16-02-2016

Designing medical equipment? You’ll need a power supply, but not just any power supply will do. The regulations in this area are strict to ensure patient safety. Thankfully, the most pertinent information can usually be found on a power supply’s datasheet. Her...

Articles | By Philip Lechner | 15-02-2016

Designing medical equipment? You’ll need a power supply, but not just any power supply will do. The regulations in this area are strict to ensure patient safety. Thankfully, the most pertinent information can usually be found on a power supply’s datasheet. Her...

Insights | By Philip Lechner | 15-02-2016

Designing medical equipment? You’ll need a power supply, but not just any power supply will do. The regulations in this area are strict to ensure patient safety. Thankfully, the most pertinent information can usually be found on a power supply’s datasheet. Her...

Educational | By Philip Lechner | 15-02-2016

Prototyping by its very definition needs an engineering environment that quickly and accurately validates design ideas and a new series of development boards from chip company STMicroelectronics could provide that. With the introduction of what it describes as...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 09-02-2016