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5G router streamlines industrial operations
Purpose-built for Industry 4.0 use cases, the Digi IX40 router provides global 5G and LTE connectivity with edge intelligence and real-time processing. The IoT cellular router allows enterprises to...
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Low-power MCUs perform diverse tasks
Built with an Arm Cortex-M33 core, NXP’s MCX A14x and A15x series of general-purpose MCUs operate at 48 MHz and 96 MHz, respectively. The devices target a broad range of applications, including motor...
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Transceivers enable contactless USB2 connectivity
Two 60-GHz V-band transceivers, the ST60A3H0 and ST60A3H1 from ST, offer short-range cable-free connectivity at up to 480 Mbps. Operating in half-duplex mode, these compact devices enable embedded USB2...
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Current sensor helps shrink EV onboard chargers
Asahi Kasei’s CZ39 series of coreless current sensors allows OEMs to design smaller and lighter onboard chargers for electric vehicles. With its fast response time, low heat generation, and noise...
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Image sensor elevates smartphone HDR
Omnivision’s OV50K40 smartphone image sensor with TheiaCel technology achieves human eye-level high dynamic range (HDR) with a single exposure. Initially introduced in automotive image sensors, TheiCel...
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Aspinity strengthens AI-based automotive security
Aspinity has launched a dashcam evaluation kit and a suite of smart analogML algorithms for parked vehicle monitoring. The hardware/software offerings leverage the company’s always-on AML100 analog...
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A groovy apparatus for calibrating miniature high sensitivity anemometers
Anemometers are an important category of environmental sensor. Articles about their design, data capture, and linearization have comprised topics featured in EDN Design Ideas, several quite recently....
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FPGA integrates hard RISC-V cores
Enabling high compute performance at the edge, the Titanium Ti375 FPGA from Efinix packs a quad-core hardened RISC-V block and 370,000 logic elements. It employs the company’s high-density, low-power...
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Bluetooth module taps Cortex-M33 processor
A Bluetooth LE 5.4 module, the HCM511S from Quectel, leverages the power of an Arm Cortex-M33 core, along with 352 or 512 kbytes of flash memory. The module, which also provides 32 kbytes of RAM,...
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The Godox V1 camera flash: Well-“rounded” with multiple-identity panache
As regular readers already know, “for parts only” discount-priced eBay postings suggestive of devices that are (for one reason or another) no longer functional, are often fruitful teardown candidates...
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Challenges in designing automotive radar systems
Radar is cropping up everywhere in new car designs: sensing around the car to detect hazards and feed into decision making for braking, steering, and parking and in the cabin for driver and occupancy...
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32-bit MCUs pack ample memory and resources
Microcontrollers in the GD32F5 series from GigaDevice are equipped with 7.5 Mbytes of on-chip flash and 1 Mbyte of SRAM, both supporting ECC verification. Up to 2 Mbytes of code flash can be configured...
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What’s that?…A fuel cell that harvests energy from…dirt?
The continual attraction of energy harvesting is well known. Who can resist possibly getting something—usually electricity—for nothing, or almost nothing? Yet the reality is that in many cases, the...
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Vibration sensor aids predictive maintenance
Murata’s PKGM-200D-R vibration sensor detects high-frequency vibrations up to 11 kHz to assist predictive maintenance in production equipment. The device measures vibration acceleration along the...
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Disclosing the results of a webcam closeup
Remember 2020? Global pandemic lockdown forced many of us out of our cubicles and into haphazard home offices, frantically outfitted and upgraded for their new tasks. Retailer inventories of webcams...
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3 basic considerations for vibration control in chip manufacturing
Uncontrolled vibration can cause semiconductor damage and decreased performance. Many sources of vibration challenge semiconductor manufacturers, including people’s footsteps, running machines, wind...
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MCU manages 12-V automotive batteries
Infineon’s PSoC 4 HVPA 144k MCU serves as a programmable embedded system for monitoring and managing automotive 12-V lead-acid batteries. The ISO 26262-compliant part integrates precision analog and...
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Software platform streamlines factory automation
Reducing shop-floor hardware, Siemens’ Simatic Automation Workstation delivers centralized software-defined factory automation and control. The system allows manufacturers to replace a hardware...
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How Wi-Fi sensing simplifies presence detection
The emerging technology of Wi-Fi sensing promises significant benefits for a variety of embedded and edge systems. Using only the radio signals already generated by Wi-Fi interfaces under normal...
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Improve thermal airflow sensor PSRR with just two resistors
Self-heated transistors used as thermal air flow sensors are a particular (obsessive?) interest of mine, and over the years I must have designed dozens of variations on this theme. Figure 1 illustrates...
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