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How Does Successive Approximation (SAR) ADC Work and Where is It Best Used? An Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is a type of device that helps process real-world analog signals for digital systems. To understand real-world data like temperature, humidity, pressure, and position, we need transducers that convert these measurements into electrical signals. Since the majority of devices we use at the moment are digital, this conversion becomes… |
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High Performance, Low Cost, and Low Power Microcontrollers with Configurable Analog and Digital Peripherals for Sensor Based IoT Applications Microchip Technology has announced the release of PIC18-Q41 and AVR DB, the two new MCUs that integrate configurable analog and digital peripherals supported by a mixed-signal development environment. Increased system integration, reduced signal acquisition times, and convenience along with the efficiency of operating in a single design environment are what… |
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STM32H7 – New Arm Cortex-M7 Microcontrollers with 550 MHz Core Speed for Advanced HMI Graphics in Smart and Connected Devices STMicroelectronics has come up with the high-performing Arm Cortex-M general-purpose MCUs with embedded Flash that brings high-end features such as rich graphics, AI, and state-of-the-art cyber-protection to cost-sensitive new products. The new STM32H7 MCUs introduced are the STM32H723/733, STM32H725/735, and STM32H730 Value-Line MCUs. Aided by… |
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Functional Safety Over EtherCAT (FSoE) Application Software Kit for 32-bit Microcontrollers to Support Industrial Automation Applications The Renesas electronics corporation has extended its RX Functional Safety solution, with the release of its Functional Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) Application Software Kit for industrial automation applications. Developers can obtain FSoE protocol stack, RX microcontroller (MCU) along with safety support, and the software in one single package, this will… |
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SPI Communication with Nuvoton N76E003 MCU to Communicate with Arduino SPI is a crucial communication protocol that is widely used to communicate among microcontrollers, SD cards, and various other sensors. SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface, it's a synchronous data transfer protocol where the master device could communicate with multiple slave devices as well as get data from them. It is synchronous because the master generates a… |
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NuMicroM251/252 – New Low Power, High Performance Arm Cortex M23 Nuvoton Microcontroller Series for Industrial Control Applications Nuvoton Technology Corporation has introduced a new low power grade NuMicroM251/M252 series of microcontrollers for industrial control applications. The new series of microcontrollers is based on Arm Cortex-M23 secure core for Armv8-M architecture running up to 48 MHz with up to 256 KB Flash and 32 KB SRAM. The NUMicro M251/M252 series provides a… |
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I2C Communication on Nuvoton Microcontroller - Interfacing AT24C02 EEPROM with Nuvoton N76E003 In the vast system of embedded applications, no microcontroller can perform all the activities by itself. At some stage of time, it has to communicate to other devices to share information, there are many different types of communication protocols to share these informations, but the most used ones are USART, IIC, SPI, and CAN. Each communication protocol has… |
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UART Communication with Nuvoton N76E003 Microcontroller – Serial Communication UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter and it is a useful hardware feature in any microcontroller unit. A microcontroller needs to receive data, process it, and send it to the other devices. There are different types of communication protocols available in the microcontroller, however, UART is the most used one among the other communication protocols… |
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STM32Cube Ecosystem with New Features to Increase Software-Development Productivity STMicroelectronics has released enhancements to the STM32Cube software-development ecosystem, letting users more easily filter and choose software examples, gather and apply development tools, and customize, use, and share STM32Cube Expansion Packages. The updates introduce new features in the MCU configuration and project setup tool… |
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How to Use Nuvoton N76E003 Microcontroller ADC to Read Analog Voltage Analog to Digital converter (ADC) is the most used hardware feature on a microcontroller. It takes in analog voltage and converts it to a digital value. Since microcontrollers are digital devices and work with the binary digit 1 and 0, it could not process the analog data directly. Thus, an ADC is used to take in analog voltage and convert it into its equivalent digital… |
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Maxim Integrated’s Ultra-Low-Power Dual Core Microcontroller with BLE 5.2 Shrinks BOM Costs by Up to 33 Percent for IoT Applications Designers of wirelessly connected, coin cell-operated internet of things (IoT) products can now reduce bill-of-materials (BOM) costs by one-third while also saving space and battery life with the MAX32666 microcontroller (MCU) from Maxim Integrated Products. This ultra-low-power dual Arm® Cortex®-M4 MCU with floating-point unit (FPU) and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 (BLE 5.2)… |
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STM32WL Wireless Microcontroller with wM-Bus Software Stack for Smart Metering Applications STMicroelectronics has announced a wireless M-Bus (wM-Bus) software stack that leverages the integrated sub-GHz radio and multiple modulation schemes supported by STM32WL microcontrollers to cut bill-of-materials cost and enhance flexibility for developers of smart-metering systems. Developed by Stackforce, the wM-Bus stack complies with… |
