I like the Cypress Semiconductor programmable system-on-a-chip (PSoC) approach to microcontrollers, and the PSoC software, which simplifies designs and code. A new development board makes it easy for ...

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 8. In many applications, accurately sensing the position of an electrically controlled mechanical device such as a motor is critical.

Connecting an LVDT (linear-variable-differential transformer) to a microcontroller can prove challenging because an LVDT requires ac-input excitation and measurement of ac outputs to determine its ...

Quantum computers of appropriate power are expected to break traditional public-key encryption such as ECC and RSA. Quantum computers that will be able to mount attacks on public-key cryptography are ...