Fingerprint sensors have been around for quite some time, and they’ve become a standard feature in most smartphones. Apple introduced Touch ID on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Since then, it has appeared on ...

Measuring only 1.38mm, Texas Instruments' new MCU is about the size of a black pepper flake. But it could have a big impact in helping to create "shrinking products"—from medical wearables to electric ...

Abstract: Serial peripheral interface, a term originally coined by Motorola in the 1980s, serves as a protocol facilitating the communication of serial synchronous data between a master device, often ...

Why serial NAND flash memory is an alternative to serial NOR flash memory. What kinds of applications are targeted by each memory type? Serial NOR flash memory has been a mainstay in low-pin ...

To address a common customer need for bigger and faster SRAM, Microchip Technology has expanded its Serial SRAM product line to include larger densities of up to 4 Mb and increased Serial Peripheral ...

The fundamentals of the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) interface, and its associated protocol. What made this simple, robust, chip-to-chip interface so useful for embedded system applications? How the ...