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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...