The use of solar power in hobby electronics is highly understated. Its use is not widespread (outside dedicated projects) since it has a reputation of being too low-power to be useful.
In certain projects, it might not be practical to include push-buttons for inputs. The constraints might be spatial or related to parts cost. In these cases, a capacitive touch sensor IC can turn an exposed PCB surface into a push-button that is activated upon touch.
The TMP5000 module is a breakout board that contains the TP5000 single-cell LiPo battery charging IC and the associated peripheral components that set charge parameters.
The TP5100 is an integrated Lithium battery charger that has a switch mode buck topology. It has all the integrated functions to charge a single or dual cell Lithium battery, along with a few peripheral components.
Infineon Technologies LLC has announced the availability of a new radiation-hardened (rad-hard), serial interface Ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) that is ideal for data logging of mission-critical data, telemetry storage, and command and control calibration data storage.
Ethernet has become a ubiquitous communication standard that is used to interface with devices as diverse as computers, oscilloscopes, and bench multimeters.