Fremont, Calif.—Exar Corp., a leading provider of high-performance, mixed-signal silicon solutions for the worldwide communications infrastructure, announced the industry's smallest form factor single ...

FTDI has expanded its X-Chip series of USB-to-serial interface chips with the new ultra-compact FT234XD. Contained in a 3 x 3 mm 12-pin DFN package optimized for smaller PCB designs, the highly ...

If you have worked with very low cost microcontroller in the past, such as the ATtiny series from AVR, you’ve probably been stuck without a UART peripheral. The usual answer to this problem is to ...

I stood in stunned silence at the smoke billowing up from the hardware on the workbench. Just moments before, it had been operating as expected, before self-destructing with a sound that can only be ...