Clemens Valens (981)

1-12-2012 | FPGAs are unquestionably among the most versatile but complex components in modern-day electronics. An FPGA contains a maze of gates and oth...

1-10-2012 | Today all & sundry, devices included, have to be “connected”, 24/7, all year round. You may have a Facebook account, but what about your osc...

1-06-2012 | In the previous instalment I showed you how to get started with LabVIEW and LIFA, developing a virtual instrument to blink Platino’s LED. Th...

1-05-2012 | This year the Embedded World electronics show in Nürnberg, Germany, celebrated its tenth anniversary. Bigger than ever, the show has moved i...

1-05-2012 | Although at first blush they appear completely different, Arduino and LabVIEW both are programming environments aimed at people who do not,...

1-04-2012 | When Renesas took over NEC they acquired a large range of electronic devices, including the popular 78K series of 8 and 16-bit microcontroll...

1-03-2012 | When it comes to MCU development boards the Serbian manufacturer MikroElektronika (mE) has a reputation to keep up. Not only do they create...

1-03-2012 | Platino, the ultra versatile AVR board presented in the October 2011 edition is compatible with the Arduino programming environment. Yet the...

1-02-2012 | Like it or not but microcontrollers, or ‘embedded electronics’ as some like to put it, are hotter than ever. You need a lot of fingers to co...

1-11-2011 | Digilent's chipKIT Max32 board offers 32-bit computing power and some 80 I/O pins while remaining compatible with the Arduino environmen...