The quest for ways to improve the energy efficiency of electronic equipment became more urgent, obviously especially in Japan, in the aftermath of the recent Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

Microcontroller-based systems with analog I/O can be simplified by modularizing them as stackable boards interconnected by a minimalist bus. The Inter­Module Bus (IMB) is a master-slave bus controlled ...

Ams AG recently launched a new series of advanced optical sensing modules, the TMx4903, integrating multiple functions including universal remote control, barcode emulation, RGB color sensing, ...