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Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announces the expansion of its L-Series of timing devices with the launch of its LX-820 Radiation-Tolerant Quartz Oscillator, designed for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and other space applications. The L-Series portfolio provides satellite developers with a wide range of oscillator architectures to select from, each with varying frequency stability, phase…
Infineon has added two new parts to the main line of its PSOC Control C3 motor and power microcontrollers. The PSC3M6 is for motor control and the PSC3P6 is for power conversion. The headline features are that one 180 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 can now run up to four brushless DC motors, sensored or sensorless, and that firmware verification uses post-quantum cryptography in line with the US CNSA 2.0…
Madhya Pradesh used the first day of its Semiconductor Summit in Indore on 23 October to collect investment proposals worth about Rs. 5,800 crore, which the state expects to create more than 10,000 jobs, Business Standard reports. This is not a wafer fab announcement. Most of the money is aimed at ESDM manufacturing, chip design, verification and packaging-related work, which is where a state…
Plenty of perfectly good internet radios, including many built on Frontier Silicon modules, can play a plain MP3 stream over HTTP but have no idea what to do with an HLS (.m3u8) playlist. When a favourite station moves to HLS, the radio simply goes quiet. Clifford Farrugia built HLS Radio Converter to fix that. It runs on a Raspberry Pi on your home network, pulls the HLS stream, and hands the…
The DSKY was the keypad and display Apollo astronauts used to talk to the Apollo Guidance Computer, and Michael Newton has rebuilt one at 1:1 scale from archived NASA and MIT drawings. Inside the 3D-printed case, a Raspberry Pi 4B runs yaAGC, the Virtual AGC project's emulator of the original computer, so the keypad, the green VERB/NOUN/PROG readout and the warning lights all behave as they…
Running DOOM on odd hardware is an old tradition, but Artur Bieniek has picked one of the tightest targets yet: the FNIRSI DMC-100, a budget clamp meter built around an Artery AT32F415 microcontroller with just 32 KB of RAM. His open-source port of doomgeneric plays the whole first episode of Freedoom on the meter's 320x240 colour screen, with sound effects on the buzzer, and it averages 29…
TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announces the expansion of its NTC temperature sensor portfolio with the M704 (ordering code: B57704M0103A001) and M705 (ordering code: B57705M0103A001) series, engineered for reliable temperature measurement in high-voltage environments. With voltage ratings of up to 4000 V (AC) for the M704 and 2500 V (AC) for the M705, these probe assemblies enable safe and…
Renesas has launched the RX74M and RX74N, the first RX-family microcontrollers built on a 22nm process and the first to use embedded MRAM instead of conventional flash. Both run an RXv3e core at up to 600 MHz, and Renesas says they deliver more than twice the performance of the 240 MHz RX72M and RX72N they succeed. The RX74M targets factory automation gear like AC drives, industrial robots and…
If you have ever wanted to fix a footprint on a college lab PC or a Chromebook where you cannot install anything, this one is for you. Akshay Rukade and the ZiroEDA project have ported KiCad 10's C++ source to TypeScript, so KiCad's schematic editor, PCB editor, interactive router, ERC and DRC run in a normal browser tab. It opens and saves native .kicad_pro projects directly, with no import…
Cheap digital calipers hide a clever capacitive encoder inside, and Nick Steele (nichlock) has turned that idea into an open-source linear scale you can build yourself. It is just two PCBs, a sensor board with an STM32L4 and a passive copper "reflector" strip, sliding about 0.1 mm apart. The maker rates it at 40 µm accuracy against a Mitutoyo digital indicator, and the build costs roughly $32…
The Nokia E6, the 2011 Symbian business phone with a QWERTY keypad and a 640x480 touchscreen, is getting a second life as a Linux machine. Developer fluffleswaffles has brought up Linux 6.12 on it. The project's milestone log starts with a first boot to a BusyBox shell on 13 October, and the kernel now drives the phone's own display, runs the Wayland compositor weston with the foot terminal,…
Analog FPV goggles normally need a dedicated 5.8 GHz receiver module, but Leon (Twotoz) has built one out of a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-C5 and seven resistors. His open-source C5VRX-5 firmware uses the ESP32-C5's own dual-band Wi-Fi radio to pick up the FM video from a drone's analog VTX, demodulates it, and pushes composite PAL or NTSC video out of six GPIO pins into your goggles, a DVR or a…
