Jeremy S. Cook

January 3, 2025

Consider the humble CR2032 battery. Roughly the size of a quarter and capable of supplying around 225mAh at a nominal 3V, these little coin cells are used to power all manner of small electronic devices that require a small amount of power. One might assume they can easily discharge 10mA or so, to power something like an ATtiny85 microcontroller plus an LED constantly for hours–or much longer intermittently.

Chad Cox

December 19, 2024

AAEON introduced its uCOM-IMX8P, an adaptable SMARC 2.1 compliant CPU module built on the NXP i.MX 8M Plus platform with an 82mm x 50mm SMARC form factor to utilize RISC architecture. The solution leverages the NXP i.MX 8M Plus’ Quad-Core Arm Cortex-A53 processor with an integrated NPU, an operating temperature range from -40°C ~ 85°C, and 4GB of onboard LPDDR4 memory and up to 128GB eMMC storage (default SKU: 16GB).