16-button keypads have a clever method of encoding their data into 8 pins. Pins are mapped to four rows and four columns on the keypad. A user reads the keypad by bringing each row up to logic: HIGH, ...

The SC16IS741A is a slave I²C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel high performance UART. It offers data rates up to 5 Mbit/s and guarantees low operating and sleeping current. The device comes in ...

The SC16IS740/750/760 is a slave I²C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel high performance UART. It offers data rates up to 5 Mbit/s and guarantees low operating and sleeping current. The SC16IS750 ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced the STM32V8, a next-generation microcontroller (MCU) built on its most advanced 18nm ...

For certain applications, the use of a low-cost microcontroller (MCU) is a must, yet many of those applications need to interface with high data rate signals. The problem is that as the data rate of ...

The UART, or universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, is one of the most used device-to-device communication protocols. This article shows how to use a UART as a hardware communication protocol by ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched three new dual-supply bus transceivers. New dual-supply bus transceivers Credit: Toshiba Electronics Europe These transceivers can be used for level translation ...

Toshiba is aiming at UART and SPI interfaces with three four-channel dual-supply level-translator-transceivers. “The bus transceivers support level-up and level-down voltage translation from either of ...

Texas Instruments’ (TI) latest MSP430 microcontrollers utilize FRAM for code and data. The unified memory approach simplifies development since code space can be traded off for more data RAM. FRAM ...