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1-09-2007 | When we develop software for a microcontroller, the compiler or assembler will, as final output, create a file that we need to program into...

1-07-2007 | The PTN78060 is a series of high-efficiency, buck-boost, integrated switching regulators (ISR) from good old Texas Instruments (TI). The cas...

1-07-2007 | The Propeller prototyping board described elsewhere in this issue needs a programming interface, just like the board available from Parallax...

1-07-2007 | Many of our readers — especially the older generation — will remember the legendary EE (Electronic Engineering) experimenter kits. They were...

1-05-2007 | As the name indicates, this iron works with hot air to achieve the solder connection or to de-solder a component. The name ‘rework station’...

1-04-2007 | In theory you could just connect a solar panel via a Schottky diode to several batteries connected in series. The internal resistance of a s...

1-04-2007 | Here’s a playful yet educational application of a Freescale MC9S08 microcontroller. It continues from last month’s Attack of the SpYder arti...

1-04-2007 | In this final part of the series we combine the information from instalments 2 and 3 to create a system which provides much larger memory ca...

1-03-2007 | CMOS inputs may never be left open circuit. There is a chance that the input ends up at half the supply voltage and the current consumption...

1-03-2007 | Many microcontrollers these days are powered from 3.3 V (or oven lower voltages) instead of the old, familiar 5 V. Lowering the dissipation...