Hackaday

Blinking An LED With A Single Transistor

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components ...
Hackaday

Arduino Measures Remaining Battery Power With Zero Components, No I/O Pin

[Trent M. Wyatt]’s CPUVolt library provides a fast way to measure voltage using no external components, and no I/O pin. It only applies to certain microcontrollers, but he provides example Arduino ...
Electronics Weekly

Tunnelling transistor offers logic and power on the same easy-to-make IC

Only eight lithography masks to create a low-power custom logic chips, compared with 20+ for CMOS, is the claim of Nottingham-based fabless chip start-up ‘Search For The Next’ (SFN). As such, ...
Electronic Design

Safety Device Helps Measure High Voltage Power Transistors With Oscilloscope

Saelig Company, Inc. has announced availability of the CLIPPER CLP1500V15A1, an oscilloscope adapter that allows small voltages to be measured in the presence of very high voltages, such as those ...
Business Wire

EPC Introduces 350 V Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Transistor − 20 Times Smaller Than Comparable Silicon and Lower Cost

The EPC2050 offers power systems designers a 350 V, 80 mΩ maximum R DS(on), 26 A peak current power transistor in an extremely small chip-scale package. These new devices are ideal for multi-level ...
Business Wire

Panasonic to Launch Industry's Smallest Enhancement-Mode 600V GaN Power Transistors Package

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will launch the industry's smallest enhancement-mode[1] gallium nitride (GaN)[2] power transistors (X-GaN TM)** package.