DigiKey and Microchip to Host Educational Webinar on Programming Embedded Systems Publish Date: 2026-04-23

DigiKey is hosting a webinar with Microchip, “Programming hardware two ways: CircuitPython and Verilog,” scheduled for April 30, 2026, at 10 a.m. CDT.

Image of Texas Instruments TMS320C64 C64x Fixed Point DSP TMS320C64 C64x Fixed Point DSP Publish Date: 2026-04-22

Texas Instruments C64x+™ devices are upward code-compatible from previous devices that are part of the C6000™ DSP platform.

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FPGAs for Robotics: Deterministic AI, Precision Motion, and Real-Time Sensing Publish Date: 2026-04-22

Altera FPGAs uniquely blend deterministic latency, parallel dataflow and reconfigurable I/O, making them ideal platforms for robotics teams.

Controlling an XRP Robot with Home Assistant via ESPHome Updated: 2026-03-26

Build a low-latency XRP robot control system using ESPHome and a UART WiFi bridge. Stream sensors, control motion, and integrate with Home Assistant.

Image of Microchip PyKit Explorer CircuitPython® Development Kit PyKit Explorer CircuitPython® Development Kit — Coming Soon! Publish Date: 2026-04-22

Microchip PyKit Explorer is a CircuitPython® dev kit combining a SAME51 board, display, sensors, BLE, audio, and expansion in a ruler format design.

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PIC16F13256 8-Bit Microcontroller Publish Date: 2026-04-21

The Microchip PIC16F13256 series of 8-bit microcontrollers offers integrated configurable logic, analog peripherals, and low-power operation.

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Explore how attackers gather device info, map inputs, and uncover vulnerabilities using reconnaissance in embedded hardware security.

Shimmering lock appearing to be made of code sitting on a glowing render of a circuit board Secure Embedded MCU Solutions with Microchip Publish Date: 2026-04-17

Explore Microchip’s secure MCU portfolio and IAR Embedded Trust support for implementing secure boot, encrypted firmware updates, and hardware-based security—whether upgrading existing designs or building new compliant embedded systems.

NXP Hardware Security Solutions Hardware Security Solutions Publish Date: 2026-04-16

Discover NXPs hardware based security solutions like Edgelock® to meet CRA aligned cybersecurity requirements. Design for long term secure resiliency now!

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This webinar introduces embedded system design through both the software and hardware abstraction levels.

Discover SECO Modular Vision 10.1 MX95. A consistent hardware and software baseline from prototyping to production. Edge AI-ready with NXP i.MX95 and Clea OS for reliable, scalable industrial integration.

As quantum computing advances, we're at the forefront of deploying robust solutions for post-quantum readiness. Building on our pioneering work in PQC, we're breaking new ground to expand the capabilities of our award-winning OPTIGA™ TPMs.

Powered by Arm® Cortex-M55 with Helium AI acceleration and NemaGFX graphics, Apollo510 enables high performance and energy efficiency.

We’ll guide first time users of the RA2 family through installing a development environment, creating a project, and verifying basic operation on the fast-prototyping board.

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Versal™ AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 Evaluation Kit Publish Date: 2026-04-14

The AMD Versal™ AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 evaluation kit delivers end-to-end encryption for AI-driven embedded systems all in a single device.

Image of Understanding Field Programmable Analog Arrays in Modern Mixed-Signal Design Understanding Field Programmable Analog Arrays in Modern Mixed-Signal Design Publish Date: 2026-04-14

Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs) offer the option of configuring analog functionality through software instead of fixed analog signal chains in hardware.

AMD Versal™ AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 Evaluation Kit

AMD Versal™ AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 evaluation kit is a powerful, flexible platform for rapid bring-up.

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This video guides you through the development process using the FPB for RL78, covering three key steps: installing the IDE, generating a project with sample code, and verifying its operation. The video uses the FPB-RL78L23 as an example.

QE for Capacitive Touch from Renesas enables the development of touch sensors by simply following a guide on a GUI.

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In this tutorial, we'll create a very simple button-controlled blinking LED program using Embassy's async functions and task spawning, demonstrating how async/await syntax allows you to write concurrent code that appears sequential while the executor efficiently switches between tasks.