Fancy to know how to: connect a PIC microcontroller (PIC micro) to a TELIT module, set up the GSM Module to handle SMS. And much more.... Looks juicy, so what are you waiting for?

This FM audio transmitter or microspy (bug) transmits on the 160MHz band and can be listened through a receiver tuned on this frequency range. Other frequency ranges can be selected for this circuit.

PicNET2 allows to develop a DIY domotic network with easy-to-use and cheap devices.
I wanted to make possible the communication between the little devices (the well-known PIC) in a simple, safe and cheap way so the idea was born.

The RENESAS M16C LCD Display allows both to visualize on a display the data received from an other device and to send a sequence of data string, as a response to a specific request.
A complete project of Renesas M16C Microcontroller (M30624FGPFP)

Microchip and OnSemi (On Semiconductor) propose to acquire Atmel. This is not a good news for the electronics designers or for the electronics operators, creating big discussions on related blog and forums. Let's analyse the facts!

Linux is a Unix-type operating system which uses the Linux kernel. The name - Linux- comes from the Linux kernel, written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The system's utilities and libraries usually come from the GNU operating system, announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The following article presents some boards that are running on Linux.

"A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, or traces, etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. Alternative names are printed wiring board (PWB),and etched wiring board." from Wikipedia - Printed Circuit Board. In its more pure form it is simply a normally flat plastic or ceramic substrate in which alternative layers of insulators and conductors are grown sequentially to form isolated conductive paths to transfer signals and current in and out of electronic components.

The most popular programming languages for embedded systems are assembly language, C and C++. This article is a presentation for EE Software Development book - a project collection about how to program hardware in high level languages and alternative approaches. Better call it Rapid Hardware Programming with High Level Languages. This book is trying to help the programmers who have only programming experience in PCs, rather than the embedded systems. These programmers are software experts on the PC platform, but they do not know how to light a LED at all, because they have not sufficient background in electronics engineering.

Semiconductor applications list: choose the right electronics components for your device! This list includes some development applications from many manufacturers (Fairchild, Renesas, Atmel, Wolfson, NXP, Zetex, Zilog, Microchip, etc). You'll find applications and solutions about: audio, automotive, portable, telecommunication, networking, industrial, wireless, circuit protection, low power, led, lighting, consumer, communication, military and aerospace, remote control, security, tv, touch sensing, avionics, etc. Just click on the application you need and you'll have the solution!

Usb i/o board (based on a Microchip microcontroller featuring a usb port) allows you to drive relays and read input status, easily and at a low cost (starting from 39 euro).This board is similar to a PLC (Programmable Logic Control) yet, it receives commands from a Personal Computer using USB bus. It is easy to connect using USB because when you plug the USB to the PC, a virtual RS232 port is created so you can easily develop the application software. You can use this board for domotic application, industrial automation, etc...

A ball control on a touch screen (using a Microchip microcontroller) was realized in a laboratory in Italy. A steel ball was kept at the center of a metallic plate using FLEX board at the Retis lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. You just need a steel ball, a FLEX board (an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC DSC family - see the Datasheet), two servomotors and a touch screen.

The design diary - dev.emcelettronica – was born on December 1st 2006 with “Hello World!” based on WORDPRESS. The main idea was to exchange solutions and projects between designers. After the first month of life we read the statistics and we were astonished when we realized the importance of our blog analyzing web statistics.

FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip microcontrollers (Datasheet 2.0). Scilab/Scicos is a code generator for the FLEX Board.
Let's see how to control a DC Motor Servo using FLEX with Scilab/Scicos.

Medical explication
Diabetes is a disorder that affects the way our body uses food for energy. Normally, the sugar we take in is digested and broken down to a simple sugar - glucose. The glucose circulates in our blood where it waits to enter cells to be used as fuel. Insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas) helps move the glucose into cells. A healthy pancreas adjusts the amount of insulin based on the level of glucose. But, if you have diabetes, this process breaks down, and blood sugar levels become too high (watch this video!)

USB-Stick as development systems

It's the fad of the moment and, we, as designers, do love these Gadgets! But what they are? Are Development Tools in USB Stick format simply toys or are they offering a complete and reliable debug system?
Surely the latter, because the capability (some of them have an ARM on board) and the versatility make a quality product highly useful for the developers.

by Mauro Ceresa, [Assipe] , Future Electronics
Tools and information to simplify designing products based on power LEDs.
In the myriad of parameters and curves that characterise the performance of a LED, it is necessary to define the set points from which the other major features can be gleaned, to obtain the final result: the real efficiency and reliability of our application.

By Editorial Staff [DESIGN IN]

The LED using, in lighting applications, is becoming more and more attractive and the possibility of using the powerline directly, as a source of power supply, is becoming more and more interesting. Moreover, if the circuital solution allows a compact implementation that can be placed in the same volume of a standard lamp screw, it becomes more interesting.

by Franco Musiari [ Assipe ]
Efficacy, power and costs of high brightness LEDs have got levels that make them an attractive solution in many lighting system applications. The luminous efficacy of a light source is the ratio between the emitted luminous flux and the amount of the absorbed energy to transmit it. It is expressed in lumen/watt (lm/W). The lumen, the measure unit of the luminous flux, is equal to the luminous flux detected in a solid angle of one steradian and emitted towards all directions from a source with a luminous intensity of 1 candle.

I am Qprox QUANTUM consultant and Design Partner Microchip Technology, but now I have decided!
In the next project I'll use a Cypress Semiconductor product! Why?
Because Cypress is performant... as the rest of its employees!