This article looks at how Near-Field Communication (NFC) takes the identification and low cost capabilities of RFID and extends them, with processing and authentication, within the NFC tag.

Cell phones and other wireless systems that contain multiple radios and multiple antennas often share some of the antennas to reduce system clutter.

Learn about system architectures and techniques that can be applied to decoding gesture recognition.

Adding speech and sound generation to a product can greatly improve the usability and marketability of a product and it does not demand the addition of a separate digital signal processor (DSP) or specialized audio processor to implement.

Telecom and communication development and evaluation kits aid in system design and implementation.

When one thinks of automotive sensor systems, global positioning navigation systems predictably come to mind. Helping drivers that are lost, however, is not the impetus for the fastest-growing sector in automotive electronics and sensor systems.

Microcontrollers (MCUs) have tackled low-end, digital signal processing (DSP)-centric applications for years and hardware multiply-accumulate (MAC) units in digital signal controllers (DSCs) have greatly expanded DSP capabilities.

A review of the basics of NFC technology which has started to make significant inroads into mobile communications.

Details from LED Show’s session that focused on LEDs continued gains and different LED technologies used to meet solid-state lighting system quality goals.

Personal-area networks (PAN) – very short-range networks spanning distances of typically less than two meters – are proliferating as more and more personal electronic products link to cell phones and to each other.

A look at 16-bit microcontrollers with high I/O pin counts including benefits and limitations, specialty features for enhanced performance and more.

In a generic electronic system there are some inputs that are controlled by the end user. These inputs are read by electronics and acted upon by using outputs.

An encoder is a device that returns position information to a circuit. They can be made from one of several different technologies (e.g., mechanical or optical) and can provide a bewildering variety of output data.

Audio capture and playback are becoming a requisite in many microcontroller (MCU)-based applications.

The drive for power efficiency has now moved to include lighting as a major growth area. LEDs as the core of solid state lighting (SSL) is the key to this new market and are applicable to most products.

Atmel provides detailed source code for an MP3 decoder that runs on its AVR32 UC3 MCU

This article looks at how Bluetooth devices can be used in medical and consumer designs, as well as other options available for both ZigBee and Synkro-based networks.