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Phosphorus sets the pace in high-performance transistors

“Ultrathin phosphorus semiconductors that become metallic when stacked can tackle resistance issues and boost transistor performance. A newly discovered blue form of ultrathin phosphorus — with electronic properties that can be tuned to enhance the injection of charge carriers (negatively and …

Project  PiOnPi

PiOnPi

“Infinitelly Calculating Digits of Pi on Rapsberry Pi Pico”

PLC14500 Nano

“The PLC14500 Nano is a retro-style trainer board intended for the user to familiarize with the Motorola MC14500 1-bit ICU (Industrial Control Unit), PLCs and Ladder Logic. The board has abundant LEDs that show the status of the system buses …

Portenta C33: The high-performance, low-price oxymoron

“While democratizing professional solutions may seem like an oxymoron, that’s exactly what Arduino Pro is out to achieve. Our business-oriented unit stands at industrial clients’ side with a growing ecosystem of high-performance, reliable, secure products that aim to provide …

Quantum engineers have designed a new tool to probe nature with extreme sensitivity

“This new spin measuring device could help scientists - particularly in chemistry and biology - understand the structure and purpose of materials better. In a paper published over the weekend in the journal Science Advances, Associate Professor Jarryd Pla and his team …

Renesas Expands RA MCU Family with Two New Entry-Line Groups Offering Optimal Combination of Performance, Features and Value

“New RA4E2 and RA6E2 MCUs Deliver High Performance up to 200 MHz in Compact Packages with Rich Peripheral Options Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its 32-bit RA family …

Reverse-engineering the multiplication algorithm in the Intel 8086 processor

“While programmers today take multiplication for granted, most microprocessors in the 1970s could only add and subtract — multiplication required a slow and tedious loop implemented in assembly code.1 One of the nice features of the Intel 8086 processor (1978 …

Reverse-engineering the register codes for the 8086 processor’s microcode

“Like most processors, the Intel 8086 (1978) provides registers that are faster than main memory. As well as the registers that are visible to the programmer, the 8086 has a handful of internal registers that are hidden from the user …

RP2040 based Pi-Day Bling

“RP2040-based bling that changes its LED color when it detects one of three keywords: “Pi”, “3.14”, or “Irrational” Happy Pi-Day! This project describes a bling designed around the RP2040 microcontroller. In the spirit of celebrating Pi-Day, it is …

Satellite built by Brown students and launched by SpaceX shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk

“Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and as a result of work done by highly trained specialists. But a team of engineering students …