EDN

CJ4541 Programmable Timer Revisited

Today we are going to revisit the CD4541 programmable CMOS timer IC. Although this monostable timer chip has been around for a long time, and many other chips have superseded it, the CD4541 IC is ...
Electronic Design

Nano-Power System Timers Slash Power Consumption up to 80%

Texas Instruments introduced two programmable system timers that significantly reduce system standby power consumption. Texas Instruments (TI) introduced two programmable system timers that ...
Geeky Gadgets

Raspberry Pi and Arduino programmable timer

Electronics designer Patrick Thomas Mitchell has returned once again to Kickstarter to launch his new Raspberry Pi and Arduino programmable timer aptly named the Ninja Counter. The programmable timer ...
EDN

System timer ICs take only 30 nA

The TPL5000 and TPL5100 programmable system timers have a watchdog or a power FET driver. Both draw only 30 nA, a reduction of 90% compared to typical designs. They use a 1.8 to 5.0 V supply. The ...
sciencex

Nano-power system timers slash power consumption up to 80 percent

Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced two programmable system timers that significantly reduce system standby power consumption. The TPL5000 with watchdog timer and TPL5100 with MOS driver draw only ...
Electronic Design

Nano-Power System Timers Slash Power Consumption

Two programmable system timers from TI, the TPL5000 (with watchdog timer) and TPL5100 (with MOS driver) draw only 30 nA of current. These nano-power timers replace a microcontroller’s internal timer, ...