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  • Testing the MAX32650FTHR Evaluation Kit

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    The MAX32650FTHR is a Feather-compatible Evaluation board featuring Analog Device’s MAX32650 ultra-low power microcontroller. The Kit comes with the MAX32625PICO debugger, but additionally, and for the purposes of this review, two sensor...

  • Testing and experimenting with Analog Devices MAX2256XAEVKIT#

    Isolation between different circuits is a key factor for safety and noise control.

    However most of the times is not as simple as placing an optocoupler and calling it done due to several requirements such as speed and delay constrains, power consumption...

  • Enroll to Review the ADI Bluetooth®︎ 5 MCU Board with a 6-axis accel/gyro

    A rapid development platform to help engineers quickly implement battery optimized Bluetooth® 5 solutions Description

    The MAX32666FTHR board is a rapid development platform to help engineers quickly implement battery optimized Bluetooth® 5 solutions...

  • Do You Use Ultra-Low Power Sensors to Extend Battery Life?

    Reducing Power Consumption in Battery-powered Devices Many devices in IoT-based systems are designed with a small form factor and are battery powered. Battery replacement in a commercial infrastructure usually involves the dismantling and refitting…
  • Mini Solar Powered Wireless Temperature Sensor

    Mini Solar Powered Wireless Temperature Sensor

    Hello Element14 community! After short break I am back and today I will show my project contribution to the competition Off-the-Grid Project14 competition . In this blog I will show outputs of my work that consumed most of my free time in recent three…

  • Low-Power Microcontrollers

    MCUs Series - Part 1 - Low-Power Microcontrollers Microcontrollers are embedded in a wide variety of consumer and commercial products such as personal wearables, medical devices, sensing and monitoring systems, the smart home, security systems, sensor…
  • Blog #9: Misaz’s In the Air Tonight Design Challenge Summary

    Blog #9: Misaz’s In the Air Tonight Design Challenge Summary

    Hello everyone. I welcome you to my last blog as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge . This is my last blog post as part of competition, but maybe in the future I will post some post-deadline blog about longer-term measurements than I was able…
  • Blog #7: Reducing Power Consumption

    Blog #7: Reducing Power Consumption

    Hello everyone. I welcome you to my 7 th blog as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge and In the Air Tonight category. In my first blog I described plans as part of competition. In second blog I shown Evaluation Kit of ZMOD4510 Outdoor Air Quality…

  • Essentials of Zigbee

    Zigbee is an open communication standard developed to enable low latency, low-power, secure, wireless IoT data networks. Wireless Protocol Series - Part 6 - Essentials of Zigbee Zigbee is a popular communication protocol used in many modern sensor…

  • PIC18(R) Microcontrollers Overview

    http://www.microchip.com/pic18 Microchip's PIC18 microcontrollers are ideal for applications requiring 10-16 MIPS performance, with up to 128KB program memory, ranging from 18-100 pins and include: C compiler efficiency, 16-bit program word, self ...
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  • Energy Saving: Building a Microcontroller-based System Power Controller

    Table of Contents Introduction Using It I2C Instruction Set (a) Wake every n seconds (n is between 5 and 255) (b) Wake every n minutes (n is between 1 and 255) (c) Read Inputs (d) Write Outputs (e) Write to RAM (f) Read from RAM…

  • Getting started with the MSP432™︎ LaunchPad and TI’s cloud development tools

    Learn more about MSP432 https://www.ti.com/microcontrollers/simplelink-mcus/wired-mcus/overview/overview.html Learn how to get started evaluating the MSP432 Low-Power + High Performance MCU series
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  • Keysight Technologies Virtual Power Roadshow

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    We know that designing low power devices can be complex. This spring, we are inviting you to a four-part series of interactive sessions - providing you with an in-depth understanding of low power consumption characterisation, related challenges and how...

  • Extreme Low Power XLP 16-bit Development Board

    http://www.microchip.com/xlp This video shows you all the features available on Microchips XLP 16-bit Development Board for extreme low power application design. The board supports development on PIC24F16KA102, PIC24FJ64GA102 and PIC24FJ64GB002 fa...
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  • LPC1100XL: Extra-low-power Cortex-M0 MCU from NXP (PowerScale Demo)

    http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/cortex_m0/lpc1100_x_l/ Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 processor, NXP's LPC1100XL family of microcontrollers features the lowest active power consumption in the industry at 110 µA/MHz and reduced deep sleep ...
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  • Building a Low Power 3.5 Digit LCD Module

    This 30-second video is just a demo for the module. The module is open source, it is just a single chip, a couple of components and a 40-pin LCD screen (several different ones fit the same PCB). For all the details (schematics, PCB etc) and commen...
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  • Seeeduino Deep Sleep

    I'm struggling to find any instructions on how to get a Seeduino XIAO into deep sleep (sleepwalking in particular). Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Mike

  • How can I attach four separate buttons to a single interrupt?

    I'm working on a project that I've been pondering for almost a year, and I have been prototyping it with my Arduino Mega 2560 (my Arduino mini died, so the 2560 is all I have at the moment) for the past two weeks, but I've hit a snag. Here's a little…

  • #112 LoRa / LoRaWAN De-Mystified / Tutorial

    In this video, I show you the basic principles of LoRa and LoRaWAN, its plusses and minuses, and also show you my own LoRa gateway and a LoRa client, and send the first message to the things network. Link budget and bandwidth are introduced. This ...
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  • A Low Power ATtiny85 System

    For some years I have wanted to create a low powered Arduino compatible system. The Arduinos themselves do not seem to be suited to this as they do not have the low power features implemented into the Arduino IDE. So, after looking around at alternatives…

  • Digispark ATtiny85 Lowest Power : Does Anyone Know?

    In the past I made a very low power LED flasher circuit using a PIC microcontroller that worked continuously for at least two years on the same set of 2 x AA batteries. I retired before the batteries ran out so I never did find it's maximum life span…

  • Exercise Azure Sphere Low Power Features

    Introduction The Azure Sphere MT3620 SoC enables the development of secure, connected IoT devices. Common for these devices is the need to operate in power-constrained environments, eg. on battery power. With careful design, the MT3620 can efficiently…

  • LPC551x/S1x: Cortex-M33 based MCU with New Levels of Cost and Performance Efficiency

    Semiconductor industry is always evolving at an unprecedented speed. You may feel this trend when changing your smart phone from an older generation to the latest offering from Apple or Samsung, and found that the screen and performance of the device…

  • Grow Organic With Smart Garden - ON Semiconductor RSL10-SENSE-GEVK

    Introduction: Now a day mostly mass produced vegetables and fruits are GMOs, contaminated with dangerous chemical pesticides and traces of chemical fertilizers. And mostly products labeled as organic, are not 100% organic. So the best and most cost…

  • Power Consumption Measurements on NXP's i.MX RT1020

    This entry is about the power consumption modes available on the i.MX RT1020 ; and how to make a current measurement when using the MIMXRT1020 EVK (Rev A2). Let’s start with a very short i.MX RT1020 overview, which is a Cortex-M7 based chip that operates…