There are times when you don’t need much processing power for your project but you do need a lot of I/O pins. It often doesn’t make economic sense to choose a larger microcontroller just to get extra ...

Milpitas, Calif.—LSI Logic Corp. is sampling 3-Gbits/s serial attached SCSI (SAS) 28- and 36-port expander ICs that are designed to provide large storage environments with scalability and ...

San Jose, Calif.—Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s I²C port expanders store all user settings in non-volatile memory, eliminating the need to reconfigure the device after each power-up. The CY8C9520 has ...

We really love when hacks of previous hacks show up in the tip line. It shows how the hardware hacking community can be a feedback loop, where one hack begets the next, and so on until great things ...

An open-drain port expander for microcontrollers, the Catalyst Semiconductor CAT9552, is aimed at switching and flashing LEDs for advertising and industrial control. Data arriving through either an ...

CalDigit's third Thunderbolt 3 dock is on AppleInsider's test rig, and has some connectivity improvements including a discrete 10Gbit/sec USB-C port boosting it above the company's previous offerings.

Diodes has unveiled a 16-bit I/O expander, which enables any digital device to be accessed and controlled over an I2C interface, across a range of input and output voltages from 1.8V to 5V. The ...

Aurora has expanded its current WACI Control System offerings with the LXC-200 Multi-port expander with integrated Web-Server. Expanding Aurora Control systems is easy and always IP Based, the company ...