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Floating-point MCU operates at up to 210 °C

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
Texas Instruments has launched a floating-point microcontroller (MCU) for operation under extreme temperature conditions from -55 °C to 210 °C, which it says is an industry first and exceeds the traditional 150 °C limit for high-temperature semiconductors devices. The SM320F28335-HT Delfino 32-bi
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Reborn: Porsche Semper Vivus Hybrid Vehicle

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive was born. In a ...

Elektor PCB Prototyper debuts on YouTube

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
The Elektor PCB Prototyper featured in the December 2010 and January 2011 editions of Elektor is a compact, professional PCB router for producing complete PCBs quickly at very high accuracy. The PCB Prototyper is an ideal tool for use not only by independent developers of electronics but also in ...

Chips to repair themselves

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
Researchers of the CRISP (Cutting edge Reconfigurable ICs for Stream Processing) consortium, a team of four companies and two universities in The Netherlands, Germany and Finland demonstrate a self-testing and self-repairing chip at the DATE2011 conference in Grenoble. CRISP developed new concepts .

$50 miniature mixed-signal scope module

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
Xprotolab is a miniature oscilloscope, logic analyzer and arbitrary waveform generator housed in a 25 by 40 mm DIP module. It can be mounted directly on a breadboard or PCB for in situ testing and verification. Based on an Atmel ATXmega32A4 microcontroller with 32 KB of flash memory, 4 KB of  SRA

Cars hacked into by Bluetooth

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly. The researchers were able to control everything from the car's brakes to its door locks to its computerized dashboard displays by accessing...

Free trial of visual development tool for TI Piccolo processors

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
To help developers simplify programming and reduce design time, Texas Instruments and Visual Solutions have jointly released a free two-month trial version of VisSim/ECD for TI Piccolo floating-point microcontrollers. The trial version includes all features of VisSim v8.0 and is available for use ..

AC powered 22 watts 1000 lumen LED module

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd. recently reported having developed the LMC10B series of LED lighting modules with built-in AC drive circuits using innovative circuit technology. LEDs are usually driven by DC (direct current) power supply. Where an AC (alternating current) power supply is used, a DC .

Multi-protocol wireless router links sensor networks to the Internet

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
The Meshlium Xtreme multi-protocol router from Libelium supports five wireless standards (WiFi, ZigBee, GPRS, Bluetooth and GPS) as well as wired Ethernet, giving designers and users a choice of methods for connecting wireless sensor networks to the Internet. It also supports sensor data storage in

ITTIA adds SQL database support to ThreadX RTOS

December 10, 2013 | by Elektor Team
ITTIA DB SQL, a relational embedded database for special-purpose systems that need self-contained data management, is now available for ThreadX, an advanced lightweight real-time operating system (RTOS) from Express Logic, Inc. When data is stored in a database backed by an RTOS, it is accessible ..