Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve been contacted by [Cedric], telling us about the smallest MCU he’s ever seen – Huada HC32L110. For those of us into miniature products, this Cortex-M0+ package packs a punch …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Smallest ARM MCU Uproots Competition, Needs Research
Last Fall [Kevin] wanted to program some newer TPI-only AVRs using an old USBasp he had kicking around his lab. Finding an “odd famine of information” and “forums filled with incorrect …read more Continue reading Teaching a USBasp Programmer to Speak TPI
It’s said that the electronic devices we use on a daily basis, particularly cell phones, could be so much smaller than they are if only the humans they’re designed for weren’t so darn big and clumsy. That’s only part of the story — battery technology has a lot to do with overall device size — but it’s true that chips can be made a whole lot smaller than they are currently, and are starting to bump into the limit of being able to handle them without mechanical assistance.
Or perhaps not, if [mitxela]’s hand-soldering of a tiny ball-grid array chip …read more
Continue reading No Caffeine, No Problem: A Hand-Soldered Chip-Scale Package