Category: IC

With Tiny Tapeout 6, you can design your custom ICs, get them fabricated, and then receive them on a development board, all for only $300. Matthew Venn has announced the launch of Tiny Tapeout 6, an educational program designed to assist beginners with their chip design. Participants...

The u-blox F10 platform increases positioning accuracy by reducing multipath effects, simplifying the process of promptly locating a vehicle. u-blox, a global provider of leading positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has announced F10, the company’s first...

In a recent press release, Microchip Technology announced their new LAN969x series of chips powered by a powerful 1 GHz single-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 CPU. This new Ethernet switch offers scalable bandwidths, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and two redundancy protocols for increased...

At CES2024, AONDevice unveiled its new on-device machine learning chip, the AON1120. It features a RISC-V core, two NPU coprocessors, and a DSP, and operates at a remarkably low power consumption of just 260μW for full-load audio classification tasks. The AON1120 is a system-on-chip...

Espressif Systems recently launched the ESP32-C61, an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE). Building on its predecessors like ESP32-C2 and ESP32-C3, it shares similar specifications but adds support for BLE Mesh 1.1 protocol and faster Quad SPI PSRAM,...

Littelfuse has expanded its protection IC product line to include five load switch ICs that deliver power savings in a small package. Littelfuse, Inc. has announced the release of five load switch ICs in its protection IC product line. Featuring a small form factor and high...

Battery Life Booster IC - Extend coin cell battery life and optimize peak current for pulse load The NPS4053 switch limits the output current to a constant current by using a constant-current mode when the output load exceeds the current limit threshold or shorted. An internal voltage...

ICs or Integrated Chips are the fundamental building blocks of all modern-day electronic devices. They're made of lots of tiny parts like resistors, capacitors, and transistors printed into a small piece of material known as silicon. These chips are in almost everything electronic we...