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 Although this monostable timer chip has been around for a long time, and many other chips have superseded it, the CD4541 IC is ...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

Atmel Corp ATtiny261, ATtiney461, and ATtiny861: Three low-power microcontrollers feature high-speed timers

An internal 8-MHz RC oscillator and an on-chip PLL in these three 20-pin TinyAVR flash-microcontroller devices provides a 10-bit timer/counter at 64 MHz. The timer/counter includes three independent ...
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, ...