ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
ROM
As the name implies, Read Only Memory (ROM) cannot be written to. The contents of the memory are decided during the design process and data is programmed during the manufacturing process. As such, ROM is very cheap in terms of space and also has go...
NOR FLASH
NOR Flash memory is one of two types of non-volatile storage technologies. NAND is the other. Non-volatile memory doesn't require power to retain data. NOR and NAND use different logic gates -- the fundamental building block of digital circ...
IGBT
An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a solid state switch that is used in many industrial and automotive applications, as well as home appliances. Because of the bipolar transistor structure, it can handle extremely high current current, and is...
FPGA
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device than can take on the personality of a customer’s design by programming it. Unlike a processor that executes a program, and FPGA configures itself to become an operating circuit that wi...
DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) stores data in a capacitor. These capacitors leak charge so the information would fades unless the charge is refreshed periodically. Because of this refresh requirement, it is a dynamic memory as opposed to SRAM...
Sensor
Sensors are an electronic device for interpreting analog or electrical stimuli in the outside world, including temperature, sound, motion, smell (including smoke), and pressure. These sensors are a key aspect of the Internet of Things, which relay informat...
