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Arduino-compatible LoRa board senses it all under the sun
Arduino-compatible LoRa board senses it all under the sun
Feature articles |
Dutch startup SODAQ (short for solar data acquisition) has launched what the company believes will truly boost LoRa's adoption by…
CMOS RF power amplifier firm raises $35 million
CMOS RF power amplifier firm raises $35 million
Business news |
Acco Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA), a private company that was founded near Paris in 1994, has raised $35 million to…
High power spiral antennas range
High power spiral antennas range
New Products |
Cobham Antenna Systems is pleased to announce the FPA-0.7-2.7R/2319, which is the first in a new range of high power,…
E-band signal analysis reference for multichannel mmW test
E-band signal analysis reference for multichannel mmW test
New Products |
Keysight Technologies, Inc., has announced an E-band signal analysis reference to provide low-cost millimeter wave analysis capability for applications in…

Everspin samples 256Mbit MRAMs, 1Gbit coming
Everspin samples 256Mbit MRAMs, 1Gbit coming
New Products |
Everspin Technologies Inc. (Chandler, Arizona) has announced it is shipping 256Mbit, spin-torque MRAMs with DDR3 interace to customers for use in storage-class memories.
CMOS power amplifier firm raises $35 million
CMOS power amplifier firm raises $35 million
Business news |
Acco Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a private company that was founded near Paris in 1994, has raised $35 million to accelerate sales and development of its CMOS RF power amplifier…
Energy-efficient optoelectronics: Will aligning ‘Odd Couple’ monolayer semiconductors pay off?
Energy-efficient optoelectronics: Will aligning ‘Odd Couple’ monolayer semiconductors pay off?
Technology News |
A research team led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors which could provide a…
Plug-&-play IoT platform employs Linear’s SmartMesh IP
Plug-&-play IoT platform employs Linear’s SmartMesh IP
New Products |
At the forthcoming Hannover Fair (Hannover Messe) on April 25, 2016, VersaSense will demonstrate* its MicroPnP product range, which it based on SmartMesh IP embedded networking technology from Dust Networks…
Cissoid delivers first SiC avionics IPMs to Thales
Cissoid delivers first SiC avionics IPMs to Thales
Technology News |
Cissoid (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium), specialist in high-temperature and extended lifetime semiconductor solutions, has disclosed that it has delivered first prototypes of a 3-phase 1200V/100A SiC (silicon carbide) MOSFET Intelligent Power Modules…
Qorvo buys wireless IoT specialist GreenPeak
Qorvo buys wireless IoT specialist GreenPeak
Business news |
Qorvo Inc., the RF chip company formed by the merger of RF Microdevices and TriQuint at the end of 2014 has agreed to acquire fabless short-range wireless chip company GreenPeak…
MEMS measure contact force in connectors
MEMS measure contact force in connectors
Technology News |
Mechanical sensors based on silicon microsystems offer the potential to reliably measure physical variables such as force or pressure. As an application example, scientists from the University of Magdeburg (Germany)…
NXP’s latest MPC5746R Power Architecture covered for debug
NXP’s latest MPC5746R Power Architecture covered for debug
New Products |
PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme has now introduced version 4.6.1 of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) including a specifically optimized testing and debugging environment for MPC5746R high end multi-core controller…
3D printers ease product personalization
3D printers ease product personalization
New Products |
XYZprinting has added new features to its da Vinci 3D printer series. Innovative upgrade modules bring personalization of printed objects into the next level.
Qorvo targets IoT with GreenPeak Technologies acquisition
Qorvo targets IoT with GreenPeak Technologies acquisition
Business news |
Qorvo, Inc., has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held, Netherlands-based GreenPeak Technologies, which will allow Qorvo to expand its customer offering to include highly integrated…
Box PC features Skylake core and MezIO modules
Box PC features Skylake core and MezIO modules
New Products |
The industrial Box PC Nuvo-5000 from Acceed is based on various 6th generation Intel core processors (code name: Skylake) and packs a variety of interfaces, including up to 6 with…
ETSI publishes Mobile Edge Computing specifications
ETSI publishes Mobile Edge Computing specifications
Market news |
ETSI Mobile Edge Computing Industry Specification Group (MEC ISG) has just released three foundation-level Group Specifications which define mobile edge computing terminology, study technical requirements and use cases, and specify…
Low-power graphene-based sensor pinpoints air pollution in the home
Low-power graphene-based sensor pinpoints air pollution in the home
Technology News |
Scientists from the University of Southampton, in partnership with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), have developed a graphene-based sensor and switch that can detect harmful air…
E-band, millimetre-wave multichannel signal analysis reference
E-band, millimetre-wave multichannel signal analysis reference
New Products |
Keysight Technologies has announced a test package for multitichannel millimetre-wave (mmW) that it says will reduce test cost and help engineers develop new technologies faster and more efficiently. It provides…
IC converts thermopile signals for downstream processing
IC converts thermopile signals for downstream processing
New Products |
The E391.18 is a sensor signal conditioning IC developed to handle thermopile signals. The device is designed as an interface function block between thermopile sensor and a downstream microcontroller or…
Cheaper solar cells through kerfless wafers
Cheaper solar cells through kerfless wafers
Technology News |
With the use of kerfless epitaxial wafers, the Belgian research organisation Imec together with Calfornia-based Crystal Solar say that they potentially have a disruptive solution for the solar cell industry,…
Cissoid delivers first SiC avionics IPMs to Thales
Cissoid delivers first SiC avionics IPMs to Thales
Technology News |
Cissoid (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium), specialist in high-temperature and extended lifetime semiconductor solutions, has disclosed that it has delivered first prototypes of a 3-phase 1200V/100A SiC (silicon carbide) MOSFET Intelligent Power Modules…
Wireless torque sensor features shunt calibration
Wireless torque sensor features shunt calibration
New Products |
TECAT Performance Systems has released the WISER 2030-S, the first version of the company's wireless torque sensor to feature shunt calibration.
Apple and Samsung reinforce ties over iPhone’s OLED display
Apple and Samsung reinforce ties over iPhone’s OLED display
Market news |
Reports from various Korean media sources indicate that Samsung Display has signed a deal with Apple to supply OLED displays for the next generation of iPhones with the result that…
Startup Faraday Future breaks ground for EV factory
Startup Faraday Future breaks ground for EV factory
Business news |
Faraday Future (FF), a Chinese-backed and hitherto rather mysterious EV startup, has provided first glimpses to its intentions and capabilities. The company hosted a ceremonial ground breaking for its manufacturing…
Micro-module regulator for DDR/QDR4 SRAM runs from 3.3 to 15V
Micro-module regulator for DDR/QDR4 SRAM runs from 3.3 to 15V
New Products |
LTM4632 is a triple output micro-module (µModule, or power module) regulator for powering all three voltage rails of the new QDR4 and older DDR SRAM: VDDQ, VTT and VTTR (or…
Affordable real-time 3D LiDAR sensor advances vehicle automation
Affordable real-time 3D LiDAR sensor advances vehicle automation
New Products |
LIDAR sensors still have the reputation to be voluminous and expensive. With its latest model Ultra Puck VLP-32A, LIDAR system market leader Velodyne (Morgan Hill, CA) is effectively countering this…
Reference design for smart, four-point industrial force sensor
Reference design for smart, four-point industrial force sensor
New Products |
Maxim Integrated has posted details of its Reference Design MAXREFDES82#, for a sensor configuration that measures mass, as well as the centre of mass of the object on it. This…
Plug-&-play IoT platform employs SmartMesh IP from Linear Technology
Plug-&-play IoT platform employs SmartMesh IP from Linear Technology
Market news |
At the forthcoming Hannover Fair (Hannover Messe) on April 25, 2016, VersaSense will demonstrate* its MicroPnP product range, which it based on SmartMesh IP embedded networking technology from Dust Networks…


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