MCU
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MCU and Sensor Lead Times Hit 26+ Weeks as Chip Suppliers Weigh More Price Hikes If you are planning a product launch, a production run or a large kit order for 2027, microcontroller and sensor lead times are a real constraint. In its Q3 2026 Trendliner, published in August, distributor Avnet Silica lists lead times of 26+ weeks for every MCU class it tracks, for MPUs, and for sensors and actuators. That is six months or more between placing an order and getting the parts… |
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Learn FPGA Design with the Microchip veryVerilog Kit: From Setup to Your First Design Most engineers who work with microcontrollers eventually run into the same challenge. A project needs to respond faster than firmware can, or it requires several digital signals to be combined in hardware. While these tasks can often be handled with interrupt service routines or external logic ICs, the solution quickly becomes complex as the design grows. This is… |
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Renesas Expands RL78 Family with Ultra-Low-Power 16-Bit RL78/G21 MCU Optimized for Smart Appliance System Control Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the RL78/G21, a new member of its RL78 family. Renesas holds the No. 1 global market share in 16-bit MCUs (Note 1). The RL78/G21 MCU extends that leadership into the next generation of smart appliances. Optimized for smart system control, the new MCU product series RL78/G21… |
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Infineon’s PSOC Control C3 Performance Line sets new standard for real-time control and PQC security Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced the launch of its PSOC™ Control C3 Performance Line microcontroller family to enable real-time control for power and motor applications. The new family of microcontrollers (MCUs) offers best-in-class performance through high control loop frequency, accuracy and system efficiency. Based on Arm® Cortex®-M33 multi-core… |
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Component Selection Guide for AI Hardware: What to Check Before Finalizing MLCC, MCU, and CPU/GPU Peripheral BOMs From June to July 2026, AI hardware demand affected more than just GPUs, CPUs, and high-bandwidth memory. TrendForce reported that DRAM contract prices would rise by 13%–18% in Q3 2026. NAND Flash contract prices would rise by 10%–15%. The main drivers are AI inference systems and large data center deployments. The pressure also… |
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Every Pixel Has Its Own Microcontroller Imagine a display where every single pixel has its own brain. That's the ambitious idea creator bitluni set out to bring to life in a six-month engineering project. Instead of relying on a central GPU, the display turns every pixel into an independent computing node. The ultimate goal is a 65,536-core QVGA display, while the first working prototype already features 8,192 RISC-V… |
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Introducing the STM32C5 Series: ST’s Next-Gen Microcontroller Lineup STMicroelectronics has introduced its latest entry-level microcontroller family, the STM32C5 series, aimed at powering the next generation of smart devices across homes, industries, and infrastructure. Built around the Arm Cortex-M33 and manufactured using an advanced 40nm process, the new series delivers a significant boost in performance, memory capacity, and efficiency compared to… |
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FNIRSI-1014D Oscilloscope Teardown
Authors
Divya Sambhayanamath, Kumudini Balobal, Mahantesh Hosur, Shivanand G Holi
Guide & Review
Sandeep Patil, CTO at RedNerds
Model Name: FNIRSI-1014DAbstract :An oscilloscope that retails at INR 13K basically covers all of the hands-on subjects a 4-year engineering syllabus teaches in theory. The only issue is that none of this is practiced. We barely get past MCUs hands-on.This… |
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STMicroelectronics introduces the first automotive microcontroller with AI acceleration for edge intelligence STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced the Stellar P3E, the first automotive microcontroller (MCU) with built-in AI acceleration for automotive edge intelligence. Designed for future software-defined vehicles, the Stellar P3E simplifies multi-function integration for X-in-1 Electronic… |
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Driving NeoPixel LEDs Using Pure Hardware - No Microcontroller, No Code A recent video by Axiometa explores an unusual electronics challenge: driving addressable NeoPixel LEDs entirely in hardware, without any microcontroller or code. Since WS2812-style LEDs normally rely on tightly timed digital data from MCUs, the project asks whether basic components like counters, timers, and logic gates can replicate the protocol. The goal was to generate the required pulse… |
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Infineon and Flex launch Zone Controller Development Kit for software-defined vehicles at CES 2026 Munich, Germany – 02 January 2026 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Flex take the next step in their collaboration to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). At CES 2026, they will launch a Zone Controller Development Kit—a modular design for Zone Control Units (ZCU) engineered to fast track the development of SDV-ready E/E architectures. The new… |
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REF67004 is ROHM's New Power Supply Design that Combines Analog and Digital Control Traditional analog power supplies struggle to keep up with today’s performance and control accuracy requirements, which have gotten way stricter. Even though digital power supplies work better, they’re just too expensive and use too much power for smaller industrial applications. This makes their use limited. To counter this, ROHM has just announced a new reference design for power supply… |
