LED drivers that receive their power from a single cell are receiving a great deal of attention. To generate the high voltage for illuminating a white LED from a low-voltage power supply basically ...

Imperial College is developing an implantable passive blood pressure monitor based around a SAW (surface acoustic wave) oscillator. “In essence, it is an oscillator that you can ping from the outside ...

Sand 9 has launched Piezo-electric MEMS timing device based on its patented Temperature Compensated MEMS Oscillator (TCMO) platform. Sand 9 says the TM651 exceeds the performance of quartz in several ...

The sub-millimeter cube, which measures temperature, merges CMOS and piezo for power, and there's an ultrasound link. How an ultra-tiny, injectable energy-harvesting, temperature-sensing and data-link ...

[Scott Harden] has been working through a design for a variable inductor to use as a PTO, or permeability tuned oscillator. What you see above is the most recent fruit of these efforts. The variable ...

This Design Idea employs the Microchip PIC10F222 single-chip microcontroller. You program this microcontroller’s internal memory using the MCLR pin. As the title, “Use the MCLR pin as an output with ...

The IDT3C02 generates frequencies on chip without relying on a piezoelectric or mechanical resonator. Built on a standard cmos process, the device uses a programmable architecture and supports ...

All sorts of counterintuitive behavior happens with regularity in the quantum realm, but very little of that bleeds over into the world of classical mechanics that the human senses occupy. We can ...