What happens when your RS-232 serial ports do not have enough surge protection in them and surge hits? Here are some examples what can happen: The failed chip on those examples is ZT3243LFEY from ASIX Electronics Corporation. ASIX Electronics’s ZT3243LFEY is triple transmitter quint receiver rs-232 28-pin tssop in the interface, bus line transceivers category. →
Arduino has released an official successor to the iconic Arduino UNO R3 board, the most well-known representative of the microcontroller platform and programming environment based on Arduino’s open hardware, has been released. The Arduino UNO R4 is the first major update to the venerable Arduino UNO R3, which has been around since 2010 and has →
Embedded World Exhibition&Conference 2023 is held at the exhibition site Nuremberg from March 14-16, 2023. The embedded world Exhibition&Conference facilitates direct interaction with a large number of experts and qualified suppliers from all over the world. It is highly focused segments like Embedded System Technologies, Distributed Intelligence and Internet of Things. I will be following →
Arduino IDE 2.0 has moved to stable and is available for download! It features a modern editor and provides a better overall user experience thanks to a responsive interface and faster compilation time. Check out welcome Arduino IDE 2.0 and https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/09/14/its-here-please-welcome-arduino-ide-2-0/ and take a look at Arduino IDE 2 Tutorials to discover and learn all →
I visited Embedded Conference Finland 2022 this week few days ago. Here are some picks from the cyber security info shown at conference. Embedded cyber security is a horizontal legal requirement in EU by end of 2024 Antti Tolvanen, Sales Director, Etteplan Post-quantum cryptography: The current status and future consequences Kimmo Järvinen, CTO, Xiphera Preparing →
STMicroelectronics STM32 32-Bit ARM® Cortex®-M MCUs are based on the Arm Cortex-M processor. The MCUs offer a 32-bit product range that combines very high performance, real-time capabilities, digital signal processing, and low-power, low-voltage operation. This is achieved while maintaining full integration and ease of development. There is a large range of STM32 devices, based on →
The Pinouts Book Is Here, And It’s Just What You Need. The Pinouts Book project has published the free PDF download “book” that contains over 300 pages of hardware diagrams and their respective pinouts. This is a work of hacker minimalism at its best. THE PINOUTS BOOK is available a PINOUTS.ORG The Pinouts Book is →
With more than 34 million units sold, the Raspberry Pi is not only one of the world’s most popular computers; it’s also one of the most important. The profits from the sale of Raspberry Pi computers help fund the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s educational initiatives. Raspberry Pi Launches New Website For Its Hardware article writes that →
Can a USB data cable be altered into a Spying data? Absolutely YES! There are many potential problems with USB cables. The USB Security is fundamentally broken and modern electronics can be made so small that you can fit all kinds of nasty circuits inside USB cable if you want to do that. And some →
RISC-V is an interesting open hardware CPU. My Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? post from few years back told that RISC-V is the most promising open CPU design, but asked can it succeed in competitive CPU market? In a quite short history a lot has happened. Not it →