EE Compendium News

MAX3172X Low-Power Temperature Sensors

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:58:02 -0500

The new MAX3172X temperature sensors from Maxim provide temperature sensing over either an SPI or a 3-wire interface. No additional components are required -- these are true temperature-to-digital converters, which is a handy function for certain applications.

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Electronic Engineering News, March 2013

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:31:34 -0500

Highlights from the world of Electronic Engineering and Embedded Systems Programming, including Android for embedded systems, pcDuino, he world's lowest cost multicore microcontroller, The Secrets to Becoming a Great Programmer, and more.

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Electronic Engineering News, February 2013

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:31:17 -0600

Highlights from the world of Electronic Engineering and Embedded Systems Programming, including OpenPICUS, Android, mbed, Arduino, and more!

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Learn Arduino

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:33:39 -0500

Learn about hardware and software development with the popular Arduino platform.

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New Microchip PIC16F178X Offer Cost-Effective Analog and Digital Functions

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:38:06 -0500

Microchip has released several new members of the PIC microcontroller family, which are optimized for LED lighting, battery management, digital power supply, motor control and other applications.

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Draw Schematics Online With DrawSCH

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:25:17 -0500

The Datasheet Zone at dz863.com is now offering a free online schematic capture tool called DrawSCH. Might be handy for hacking together a quick circuit or documenting a simple hardware design.

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Embedded Software Consulting - Key to Your Success!

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:22:59 -0600

Have you considered outsourcing an embedded software project? There are risks to such an approach, but many advantages as well.

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Free Electronic CAD Tools

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:30:51 -0600

Here are a few free electronic hardware development tools that I just became aware of: TinyCAD, FreePCB, and FreeRoute. Great for hobby projects!

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I2C Analyzer - Monitor and Control I2C Bus

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:22:34 -0500

I2C is a simple serial communication bus and protocol, and many microcontrollers have built-in hardware support. But how to debug it? An I2C analyzer is one popular choice.

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It's Easier Becoming An Infopreneur

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:38:10 -0500

Internet information publishing is the most accessible entrepreneurial opportunity you will see in your lifetime. Best of all, you can do it on your terms.

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Attitude Is More Important Than Age To A Home Business Entrepreneur

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:37:39 -0500

Your attitude plays a very important in determining whether you can be a successful Home Business Entrepreneur and make money out of it.

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Open Circuits Wiki

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:16:31 -0500

This is a pretty neat project: Open Circuits is a wiki for sharing open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries.

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How to Improve Product Development Productivity - Lessons From the Checklist Manifesto

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:24:49 -0500

The recently published book 'The Checklist Manifesto' holds important lessons for how semiconductor and embedded systems design teams can improve their product-development productivity.

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Embedded Digital Filtering

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:20:16 -0500

Introducing a powerful digital filtering engine into embedded applications extends the value developers can deliver to their customers, and it reduces system cost, complexity, and time-to-market.

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Compilers For 8051 Microcontrollers

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:37:46 -0500

This is an overview of some of the compilers available for 8051 microcontrollers, especially C and Pascal compilers.

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Letting Out The Magic Smoke

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:37:56 -0500

Exploding capacitors, glowing and smoking resistors, melting semiconductors, and flying sparks ... fun times!

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Get Rich Doing What Others Don't

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:05:29 -0500

The quickest way to wealth that I've found to be true; Is to stick out your chest give your best and do what others don't like to do!

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Listen To Me Lad Says Jack

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:03:15 -0500

Listen To Me Lad Says Jack - As an apprentice engineer I learned some very sage advice: Remember that you get paid just as much to rub out as you do to draw in the first place, so don't you be frightened to make a few mistakes.

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The Top Five Technical Documentation Mistakes

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:29:42 -0500

Weak technical documentation is very common, yet a company's entire future can depend on the amount of attention they pay to this very important issue.

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New Microchip 'Microstick' Development Board

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:53:24 -0500

Microchip Technology has a new, low-cost solution for designing with Microchip's 16-bit PIC24H microcontrollers and dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), called the "Microstick".

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