- an 2016-10-06 in (IC Chips)
- Beating battery drain: Power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life
- Stream video on your smartphone, or use its GPS for an hour or two, and you'll probably see the battery drain significantly. As data rates climb and smartphones adopt more power-hungry features, batte
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- an 2016-09-09 in (IC Chips)
- Xerox PARC chip shatters on command, shards all that remain
- Engineers at PARC, a Xerox company, have come up with a chip that will self-destruct on command; it was demonstrated at DARPA's Wait, What? event in St. Louis on Thursday.The chip was developed under
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- an 2017-06-20 in (IC Chips)
- PWM lamp dimmer using NE555
- A simple and efficient PWM lamp dimmer using timer IC NE555 is discussed in this article. Yesterdays linear regulator based dimmers can only attain a maximum efficiency of 50% and are far inferi
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- an 2026-06-05 in (IC Chips)
- Top Power Management ICs for IoT Devices in 2026
- Engineering Architecture Guide: This technical guide covers the optimal power management IC for IoT for hardware engineers transitioning from prototype to commercial production.The global Power Manage
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