Anniversaries in technology are tricky – because there are usually several dates that come into question as a birthday. This is also the case with MP3: On July 14, 1995, the project participants at ...

UCC33420-Q1 is an automotive qualified DC/DC power module with integrated transformer technology designed to provide 1.5W of isolated output power. It can support an input voltage operation range of 4 ...

These days, a lot of phones don’t have audio jacks anymore. It can make it hard to listen to music if your favorite headphones aren’t already wireless-enabled. Minty Tunes solves that problem, ...

The Kobo Libra 2 is a brand new e-reader that has just become available in late October, 2021. This device has a few major selling points, it has double the storage from the original Libra 1 and it is ...

Prototyping new ideas can be a lot of fun, but putting new projects in a durable enclosure can be a difficulty. This is especially the case when the user of this product is one of the most destructive ...

STMicroelectronics has announced an MPEG layer 3 audio decoder chip that also includes an embedded ADPCM (adaptive differential pulse code modulation) codec to allow voice recording and playback.

In the SoC design and integration methodology of a MPEG1/2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) decoder chip, a top-down integration flow, combined with a focus on constraint-driven timing analysis, modular simulation ...

As you might have noticed, the 38-KHz pulse generator is built around the evergreen timer chip NE555P (IC1). Here, the RC components (R5-C3-P1) set the astable frequency to drive the infrared light ...