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LoRa wireless module for IoT designs, from Microchip
LoRa wireless module for IoT designs, from Microchip
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Microchip Technology’s first module for ultra long-range and low-power network standard is a stack-on-board package; the RN2483 module is intended…
Sub-GHz RF-module for wireless M-BUS and OMS applications
Sub-GHz RF-module for wireless M-BUS and OMS applications
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Distributor EBV Elektronik’s EBVchip Maia is the result of a collaboration with Weptech and STMicroelectronics; it is a flexible sub-GHz…
Wrap a security film around your hardware, with PUF embedded
Wrap a security film around your hardware, with PUF embedded
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) is developing a very versatile and flexible form of Physically Unclonable…
Development platform supports FTDI’s microcontroller architecture
Development platform supports FTDI’s microcontroller architecture
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MikroElektronika, in partnership with FTDI Chip, has produced a complete development package to support the FT90X series of 32-bit application-optimised…

Cambridge Consultants claims first for “all-digital radio transmitter”
Cambridge Consultants claims first for “all-digital radio transmitter”
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Cambridge Consultants reports that it has successfully completed initial trials of the first fully digital radio transmitter, calling it a “turning point” in wireless design and a real enabler for…
Analysis tool stops software “erosion”; supports MISRA C
Analysis tool stops software “erosion”; supports MISRA C
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Enabling developers to write better embedded software is the goal of the creators of the Bauhaus Suite, a software development environment from tool vendor Axivion GmbH. The tool suite supports…
Micropower wake-up timer for power-sensitive applications up to 36V
Micropower wake-up timer for power-sensitive applications up to 36V
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Featuring pushbutton control, LTC2956 it a wake-up timer that manages 1.5V to 36V system power, that is presented as offering an improved solution compared to using microcontrollers or real-time clocks…
RS stirs 3D printer market with launch of own-brand, budget-price model
RS stirs 3D printer market with launch of own-brand, budget-price model
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Presented as a professional-quality 3D printer for rapid prototyping at highly affordable price point, the RS IdeaWerk 3D printer costs €737 and targets wide range of users including electronics engineers,…
Programmable analogue chips as I/O to MCU & FPGA-based systems
Programmable analogue chips as I/O to MCU & FPGA-based systems
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At the recent Embedded World exhibition, Maxim Integrated was reporting a broad range of interest in its MAX11300 configurable analogue device, also known as “PIXI”. We first reported the device…
“Wireless PowerShare” allows mobile wireless charging among devices
“Wireless PowerShare” allows mobile wireless charging among devices
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This technology can serve as both receiver and transmitter, supporting all three major wireless power standards; IDT’s “Wireless PowerShare” technology will permit users wirelessly charge one mobile device from another…
Micro-mirror MEMS sensors central to Intel’s Perceptual Computing explorations
Micro-mirror MEMS sensors central to Intel’s Perceptual Computing explorations
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STMicroelectronics has disclosed that it is providing micro-mirrors and control devices for initiatives at Intel, which are aimed at, “fundamentally changing [the] human-computer interaction”. ST supplies ASIC control devices and…
EEMBC adds CoreMark-Pro benchmark to extend coverage of multicore CPUs
EEMBC adds CoreMark-Pro benchmark to extend coverage of multicore CPUs
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Independent benchmarking organisation EEMBC has added to its software with Coremark-Pro, a free benchmark which develops the scope of the EEMBC CoreMark with a suite of integer and floating-point tasks,…
Power analyser provides complete analysis for 3-phase motor drives
Power analyser provides complete analysis for 3-phase motor drives
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Teledyne LeCroy’s MDA800 Series of Motor Drive Analysers (MDAs) combine three-phase power analyser static (steady-state) calculations, dynamic three-phase power and mechanical motor analysis capabilities, and high bandwidth (1 GHz) embedded…
Benchmark Stresses Big Chips
Benchmark Stresses Big Chips
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC), a trade group of 47 chip and system designers, released CoreMark-Pro. The suite of benchmarks for 32- and 64-bit processors expands the original CoreMark,…
Distributor Silica adds Huawei wireless modules as part of M2M/IoT programme
Distributor Silica adds Huawei wireless modules as part of M2M/IoT programme
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Silica has announced a franchise agreement with Huawei; Silica is marketing multi-standard 3G and 4G wireless modules in a number of form factors, including LGA, PCIe and PCI-SIG M.2. Based…
The future of custom ASICs
The future of custom ASICs
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With the prevailing view that Moore's Law is slowing Donnacha O’Riordan, director of services strategy for S3 Group, gives a view of of accessing IC solutions with IP and tailored…
Renesas’ RX700 MCU offers 240-MHz, run-from-flash operation
Renesas’ RX700 MCU offers 240-MHz, run-from-flash operation
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The RX700 microcontroller series expands the 32-Bit RX family to with a part that has 240 MHz operation, security features and 4 MB of memory: a combination that Renesas presents…
Save me from the overbearing analytics of IoT
Save me from the overbearing analytics of IoT
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Almost everything we do of significance is becoming electronically enabled and recorded. And with the advent of the Internet of Things that is trickling down to even the most basic…
Sensirion reveals multi-pixel gas sensor
Sensirion reveals multi-pixel gas sensor
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Sensor vendor Sensirion AG is set to disclose its multi-pixel gas sensor at the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Processor IP from Cortus gains IP stack and RTOS support
Processor IP from Cortus gains IP stack and RTOS support
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IP provider Cortus – source of small-footprint and efficient 32-bit processor cores – has added three software partners enabling the APS architecture to be used in a broader range of…
Simultaneous time domain and spectrum analysis on 1 GHz oscilloscopes
Simultaneous time domain and spectrum analysis on 1 GHz oscilloscopes
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Rohde & Schwarz' RTM bench oscilloscopes can now simultaneously analyse analog, digital, protocol-based and RF signals. This spectrum analysis and spectrogram option can also be used in the new 1…
Bluetooth SoCs at “ultra-low” power in Silicon Labs’ Blue Gecko identity
Bluetooth SoCs at “ultra-low” power in Silicon Labs’ Blue Gecko identity
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Silicon Labs has introduced a Bluetooth Smart product portfolio designed to help developers minimise the energy consumption, cost and complexity of wireless IoT designs. It comprises Blue Gecko Modules, SoCs,…
Xilinx reveals FPGA & programmable SoC product plans for 16-nm silicon technology
Xilinx reveals FPGA & programmable SoC product plans for 16-nm silicon technology
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The programmable-logic maker has announced new product ranges and updates in a number of areas; forthcoming high-end product in 16-nm finFET processes; new processor options in its system-on-chip (Zynq) offering;…
Tech notes from Avago: Optocouplers in intrinsic safety applications
Tech notes from Avago: Optocouplers in intrinsic safety applications
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The basic principle of IEC 60079-11 to achieve intrinsic safety is for the energy in the power circuit to be limited preventing unusually high temperatures, ignition sparks or electric arcs…
Low-noise 200 MHz op amp with rail-to-rail inputs and output
Low-noise 200 MHz op amp with rail-to-rail inputs and output
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Analog Devices has posted details of the ADA4807-1, a high-performance operational amplifier that claims the lowest input noise (3.1 nV/√Hz and 0.7 pA/√Hz) among low-power, high-speed rail-to-rail amplifiers.
Between Ohmmeter and TDR, what are your cable-test options?
Between Ohmmeter and TDR, what are your cable-test options?
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Field-test instrumentation fills the gap between a basic tester and sophisticated engineering units, providing the results you need to verify the basic integrity and performance of copper and optical-fiber cable…
Between Ohmmeter and TDR, What are Your Cable-Test Options?
Between Ohmmeter and TDR, What are Your Cable-Test Options?
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Field-test instrumentation fills the gap between a basic tester and sophisticated engineering units, providing the results you need to verify the basic integrity and performance of copper and optical-fiber cable…
Let’s aim above 100GHz
Let’s aim above 100GHz
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Bill Schweber observes that against some earlier expectations connectors are coping at frequencies above 1GHz and even 10GHz. So engineers should have the ambition to go higher.


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