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 ...
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 ...
Diodes has introduced a pair of level-shifting IO port expanders with automotive qualification to AEC-Q100 Grade 2. Both interface to the host controller though a variable voltage I 2 C interface and ...
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 ...
It took me a second to sort out what, exactly, this Toshiba Multimedia Center Audio/USB Hub does, but it’s really pretty simple once you grok it. It’s just a port expander for laptops, essentially, ...
[Andrew Sowa] wanted to use an off-the-shelf relay board from Numato Labs. The board lacks a suitable computer interface, which meant that [Andrew] would have to build one, and its input connectors ...
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 ...