Silicon Labs acquires Energy Micro! Technology Editor Bill Wong comments on the merging of two ARM microcontroller lines. It could get interesting....More
Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Microchip’s Tyler Smith about their latest wireless solutions including bridging between WiFi and Microchip’s own MiWi mesh fabric wireless network....More
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University are developing a low-cost, long-life battery that could cost-effectively store and discharge excess energy generated by wind and solar power sources....More
Cypress Semiconductor's PSoC 4 brings the Cortex-M0 to the PSoC family delivering low cost, 32-bit processing power with customizable peripherals....More
Maxim's Paul Daigle showcases a variety of energy measurement solutions for power supplies related to data centers and servers at APEC 2013. Their 78M6610+PSU is a single-phase energy-measurement processor that provides simple utility-grade sensing and diagnostics for existing designs without the traditional cost of a utility meter system-on-chip, and the MAX78615+LMU and MAX78700 are an isolated chipset solution for energy and power measurement that uses resistors for both voltage and current sense....More
Niranjan Pathare from Texas Instruments demonstrates two low-power energy harvesting demos at APEC 2013, including a wearable thermoelectric band that works off of body heat, and wireless sensor nodes powered by ambient light....More
Technology Editor Bill Wong looks forward to the upcoming Design West 2013 show in San Jose to check out the latest micros, modules, boards, software and more....More
Freescale's Kinetis KL02 microcontroller is only 1.9mm by 2mm. The tiny Cortex-M0+ processor is ideal for ultra-small application from ingestible healthcare sensing systems to mobile devices....More
