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Visual TFT – Rapid development of GUIs for TFT displays

What is Visual TFT? Visual TFT is a standalone application used for rapid development of graphical user interfaces for TFT displays. Software generates code compatible with mikroElektronika compilers: mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal, for all suported MCU architectures: PIC, dsPIC30/33, PIC24, PIC32, AVR and ARM. Software implements intuitive environment and many drag-and-drop components which can be […]

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Fully depleted silicon technology to underlie energy-efficient designs at 28 nm and beyond

Industry Need for Continued Scaling Technological advances in transistor scaling have had a dramatic effect on consumer electronics and their corresponding use cases. In 1973, Motorola developed the first mobile phone, which weighed 2.5 pounds, was 9 inches long, had limited battery life and only allowed users to make and receive calls. Fast forward to

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Sunon LA003 cooling module – the right choice for high-power LEDs

10, 20, 30W LED modules are no rarity anymore and the question how to cool them and to maintain an aesthetic aspect is still more actual. Sunon, as an innovative producer of reliable fans with many advanced technologies (VAPO, MAGLEV, …) launched on the market cooling modules with a fan and an aluminium heatsink, directly

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Build your own PICkit 2 programmer

There are many PIC programmer available, commercial and DIY devices. As Microchip introduces the new microprocessors the programming software got to be updated accordingly playing catch-up with the PIC manufacturer. That is the root of the problem with third-party PIC programmers. Microchip’s PICkit 2 is the low cost ICSP programmer for Flash PICs with USB

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New version of MAX7219 based 4-digit serial seven segment LED display

This (SPI7SEGDISP4.40-1R) is a revised version of the previous SPI seven segment LED display (4 digit) board that displayed numerals and decimal points. The new version has a better quality seven segment LED display (LTC-4727JS) with three extra LED segments, as shown below. The additional colon segments are useful in projects where you need to display

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Advanced ICs Simplify Accurate State-of-Charge Measurement for Lithium-Ion Batteries

All energy-harvesting-based systems need energy storage for times when the energy cannot be harvested (e.g., at night for solar-powered systems). Rechargeable batteries ‒ known as “secondary” cells to differentiate them from “primary” or single-use cells ‒ are usually specified for this task. For rechargeable batteries, however, battery management depends on the best possible measurement of

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