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Industry’s Smallest 18-bit SAR ADC

According to its manufacturer Maxim, the MAX11156 is the industry’s smallest 12-pin, 18-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Available in a tiny 3mm x 3mm...

Lots of Power in Very Small Volume

Vicor Corporation announced the expansion of its ultra-high density Picor Cool-Power PI31xx series of isolated, ZVS-based DC-DC converters optimized for 24 V industrial, 28 V aerospace and...

Put Your Smartphone on the Big Screen

With smartphones becoming the center of many people’s universe, there is a growing need for the ability to connect them to normal monitors for easier viewing, especially among older users. To...

OpenCL on FPGAs

To make it easier for programmers who work with high-level languages to take advantage of the capabilities of programmable logic devices, Altera has launched a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the...

New Book: Elektor’s Open Source Electronics on Linux

With the recent release of Warwick A. Smith’s Open Source Electronics on Linux , entering the world of open source software for electronics and everyday applications has never been easier, be it...

The Return of the TAPIR E-smog Detector

Thanks to Elektor’s continued cooperation with PCB manufacturer Eurocircuits, the wideband TAPIR E-smog Meter DIY kit has returned to Elektor.STORE! Eurocircuits are producing another batch of 1,000...

VMusic3 – Vinculum-II Application Module

VMusic3 is a USB host and MP3/WMA player application module based on FTDI’s Vinculum II microcontroller. The default firmware of the VMusic3 supports audio playback and UART or SPI communication...

BeagleBone is B(l)ack

The compact computer boards offered by the open-source BeagleBoard organization support a variety of Linux distributions and provide laptop computing power in vest-pocket format.

Low-cost Development Kit Marries ARM and FPGA

Altera has launched its Cyclone V System-on-Chip (SoC) development kit. Developed in collaboration with ARM, the kit features the recently announced ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera...

8-bit PIC Integrates Analog Circuitry

Microchip announces two new 8-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs), the PIC16F527 and PIC16F570, which combine a PIC MCU with a dual Op Amp module, an 8-bit ADC and two comparators. The new MCUs add...

Free Elektor Academy/element14 Webinar: RFID Trickery

Elektor Academy and Element14 are excited to bring you the sixteenth installment of our free webinars based around another hugely popular project from Elektor Magazine!

Antenna-to-Audio Chips Support HD and DAB Radio

Silicon Labs has released what it claims to be the first single-die antenna-to-audio digital radio receiver devices for the global portable and consumer electronics markets. Using software-defined...

Free ARM SDE Supports Linux and Android

Linux use is growing rapidly in the embedded domain, fueled by the availability of low-cost, low-power, high-performance ARM-based MPUs with working Linux ports and communication stacks....

New Keyboard Design Enables Much Faster Thumb-typing on Touchscreens

Typing on today’s mobile phones and tablets is needlessly slow. One limitation is that the QWERTY layout is ill-suited when typing with the thumbs.

Elektor May 2013 Edition Published

Spring is in full swing and we’re happy to have the latest edition of Elektor Magazine ready for you to enjoy, packed full of projects, interviews and news! The highlight of our May edition is...

Cable Drop Compensation without Sense Wires

Linear Technology announces the LT6110 cable drop compensator, a new device that improves voltage regulation at remote loads without the need for Kelvin sense wires. The new device has been...

Control 1024 RGB LEDs With Only 3 Wires

The Chinese semi-conductor manufacturer Worldsemi has developed an RGB-LED that includes a driver chip with a serial interface that allows controlling strings of 1024 of these LEDs using only three...

Health Care For Lead-Acid Batteries

Texas Instruments has launched the first lead-acid battery management IC featuring a proprietary “Impedance Track” capacity measurement technology for lead-acid batteries. The bq34z110 “gas gauge” IC...

Tiny Injectable LEDs Help Neuroscientists Study the Brain

Optogenetics is the process by which genetically-programmed neurons or other cells can be activated by subjecting them to light. Among other things, the technology helps scientists understand how the...

Turn Your Oscilloscope into a Configurable Manchester and NRZ Decoder

Teledyne LeCroy has released what the company says is the industry's first configurable decoders for Manchester and non-return-to-zero (NRZ) bitstreams for a wide range of oscilloscope platforms...