Circuit Cellar Magazine - December 2024

In this issue

4: Amazing Eddy Currents: Apply Them to Thin Metal Thickness Measurement By George R. Steber

10: No Blues with Bluetooth!: Part 7: Versions 5.0 to 6.0 By Robert Lacoste

16: Basic Pulse Circuits - Part 1: Essentials for Processing Outside Signals By Wolfgang Matthes

24: Building An Unconventional Home Anemometer Using an Arduino Pro Mini Microcontroller By Gamal Labib

30: TECHNOLOGY FEATURE: Harvesting Ambient Energy -Hybrid Power Sources Cut IoT Battery Dependency By Tom Murphy

36: DATASHEET: Tiny Embedded Boards Power, Performance, and Versatility in Meager Square Millimeters By Tom Murphy

40: Embedded in Thin Slices: Easing the Path for App Releases -Managed Development of React Native with Expo By Bob Japenga

44: START TO FINISH: Driving LCDs - Lumex Display with Microchip Driver for a TI MCU By Stuart Ball

50: FROM THE BENCH: The Long and Winding Road - From Maxim’s RS-232 to WeMos ESP32: So Much to Do, So Little Time By Jeff Bachiochi

62: TECH THE FUTURE: Navigating the Chip Creation Space - Custom Silicon at Lower Cost, Reduced Development Time By Michael Wishart

Amazing Eddy Currents

Apply Them to Thin Metal Thickness Measurement

10+ mins

No Blues with Bluetooth!

Part 7: Versions 5.0 to 6.0

10+ mins

Basic Pulse Circuits

Part 1: Essentials for Processing Outside Signals 9

10+ mins

Building An Unconventional Home Anemometer

Using an Arduino Pro Mini Microcontroller

10 mins

Harvesting Ambient Energy

Hybrid Power Sources Cut IoT Battery Dependency

10+ mins

Datasheet: Tiny Embedded Boards

Deliver Power, Performance, and Versatility in Meager Square Millimeters

2 mins

Easing the Path for App Releases

Managed Development of React Native with Expo

10+ mins

Start to Finish Driving LCDs

Lumex Display with Microchip Driver for a TI MCU

10+ mins

The Long and Winding Road

From Maxim's RS-232 to WeMos ESP32: So Much to Do, So Little Time

10+ mins

HMI Introduces Ultra-Low Voltage 12-bit GPIO Expander with Interrupt Output

HMI, a leading provider of advanced analog and power management technologies, announced the launch of its HL5310, an innovative ultra-low voltage 12-bit GPIO expander featuring interrupt output.

1 min

XP Power Launches New Series of Low-Profile, Baseplate-Cooled DC-DC Brick Converters

The RDF150 and RDF200 series are the latest additions to the RDF series of low-profile, baseplate-cooled, ultra-wide input DC-DC brick converters, which is already available in power outputs of 25W and 50W.

1 min

Renesas New RA8 Entry-Line MCU Groups Brings High Performance of Arm Cortex-M85 Processor to Cost-Sensitive Applications with Market-Leading CoreMark Performance

Renesas Electronics Corp., a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, introduced the RA8E1 and RA8E2 microcontroller (MCU) groups, extending the industry's most powerful series of MCUs.

1 min

Same Sky Expands AMT Absolute Encoder Line to Support Larger Shaft Sizes

Same Sky's Motion & Control Group announced the addition of a new series to its innovative AMT absolute encoder family designed to support larger motor shaft sizes from 9mm to 15.875mm (5/8 inch).

1 min

The Future of Embedded Chip Design Navigating the Chip Creation Space

Custom Silicon at Lower Cost, Reduced Development Time

6 mins

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Circuit Cellar Magazine Description:

Circuit Cellar magazine features engineering tutorials, detailed microcontroller-based projects, and embedded systems industry news for professional electrical engineers, EE/ECE academics, and highly skilled electronics enthusiasts. Since 1988, Circuit Cellar has featured projects and tutorials from the world's top engineers on subjects such as embedded development (e.g., prototyping and programming), signal processing (e.g., DSP chips and signal conditioning), programmable logic (e.g., FPGA projects), sensor systems (e.g., smart sensors and MEMS), 'Net-connected devices (e.g., IoT projects and protocol stacks), robotics (e.g., robotic systems and proximity sensing), and much more. Circuit Cellar is the ultimate resource for all of your electrical engineering-related needs.