Touch screens or touch panels are part of our daily routine. Besides the countless consumer and infotainment devices, POS terminals, ticket machines or industrial control units, the iPod success story ...

Eight-pin microcontrollers offer numerous peripheral features. However, the maximum number of I/O pins available is often limited to six, since two pins would be required for the chip's power supply.

Lots of projects use the microcontroller (uC) as the ‘brain’ – for example as an intelligent controller in the prototype of a flying machine. Although there are a number of solutions for powering a ...