Just as I was finishing my previous article about a new TI microcontroller that was smaller than a grain of white rice and sold for 16 cents in thousand-unit quantities, I learned of another new microcontroller based on a proprietary implementation of the 32-bit RISC-V processor ISA that sells for 10 cents (presumably in volume). This new microcontroller from WCH, aka Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics, a Chinese chip and IP … Read More → "A 10-cent RISC-V microcontroller from China? Why not?"
We are surrounded by a multiplicity of materials, from metals and alloys to crystals, glasses, and ceramics; from polymers and plastics to organic and living-derived substances; and let’s not forget natural materials like stone and exotic materials like aerogel.
The amazing thing to me is that all these materials are formed from different combinations of the same small group of elements. For … Read More → "Quantum Simulations of New Materials for the 21st Century"
This week my podcast guest is Giovanni Garcea, President of AnDAPT. Giovanni and I discuss the details of AnDAPT’s field programmable PMIC and how engineers can take advantage of AnDAPT’s programmable power solution that it designed with AI called PMIC.AI. Also this week, I check out a new fluid battery that can take any shape developed by researchers at Linköping University. …
Read More → "Programmable PMICs and Cutting Edge Power Management with AnDAPT"It seems that many of our electronic systems (communications, computing, automotive, industrial, etc.) are transitioning from 12V to 48V. How are you going to power yours? (Don’t worry, that’s a trick question because I’m about to expound, explicate, and elucidate like an Olympic champion.)
For some reason, I currently find the phrase “It’s a Mad, Mad, … Read More → "It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad 48V World"
