In part 1, we explored the need for a high intensity flash in medium to low light conditions to ensure good pictures from 2-megapixel (and greater) camera phones. The battery presents the system ...

Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...

Cell Phones are Becoming the ultimate consumer all-in-one portable appliance, producing digital-still camera-quality pictures, supplying WiFi/Web access and delivering high-quality audio. As customers ...

Today’s popular smart phones keep raising the bar for features and functionality. A growing number of handsets now offer embedded cameras that deliver 5-Mpixel resolution or greater in an attempt to ...

Austriamicrosystems AG, a designer and manufacturer of analog integrated circuits (ICs), has unveiled a smart 1-A charge pump for flash LEDs in camera phones. Extending the company's lighting IC ...

You know how it is. You’ve got that new project running, and while it doesn’t consume much power, it also doesn’t give much indication of whether it’s functioning or just sitting there with a dead ...