At the same time, continually sending out data to animate them can often use 100% of the microcontroller’s CPU power, especially if the serial bus is being bit-banged. A crash or badly timed ...

DC-DC converter chips provide a regulated DC voltage output from a different, unregulated input voltage. They are used in power management applications and incorporate several conversion technologies.

CT21100 is high efficiency DCDC boost converter delivering 2.7V at 10mA from an input as low as 0.9V. Designed to work with a single alkaline/NiMh coin cell. To improve efficiency with ... CT21302 is ...