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Silicon Labs pushes ZigBee mesh networks in the home
Google Nest IP-addressable wireless mesh networks for use in the home are the focus of a design initiative by Silicon Labs. The chip supplier has created a networking protocol, called Thread, to help...
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Freescale and Alps tempt Tier 1 automotive suppliers
Alps UMDZ series Freescale’s two year tie-up with Alps has yielded three automotive-grade mobile data and wireless connectivity modules for telematics and driver assistance systems (ADAS), based around...
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Infineon designs Gbit backhaul system
Infineon, GreenWaves, Altera and Escape Communications have put together a system design for Gbit wireless backhaul. Based on Infineon’s E-/V-band transceiver family and Escape Communications’ FPGA, it...
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QuickLogic joins with Peel to put IR into CSSPs
QuickLogic has got together with Peel to put IR technology into smartphones to allow them to work as TV remote controls and home automation controllers. Peel’s head of business development, Yong Tian,...
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The pros and cons of Bluetooth Low Energy
Ton Middelman, technical business development manager (communications) at Acal BFi, takes a look at Bluetooth Low Energy The engineering world has fallen in love with the concept of the internet of...
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White space on hold as Weightless switches to narrowband M2M comms
Machine-to-machine communication industry body Weightless is switching its focus from whitespace radio to ultra-narrow-band radio. “Weightless not pursuing white space as availability is not coming...
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More on: Ultra-narrow-band for Weightless M2M comms
Multi-kilometre machine-to-machine communications special interest group (SIG) Weightless has decided to pursue ultra-narrow-band (UNB) comms in free-to-use ISM bands, rather than ‘white space’ radio...
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GaN transistor for troposcatter comms
Cree has introduced a GaN transistor for troposcatter communications applications rated for 200W continuous wave (CW) and 4.4—5.0GHz operations and for C-Band applications, such as satellite...
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Electronica: Fraunhofer to reveal 10Gbit/s in-car network, and IoT receiver
Scientists from the Fraunhofer IIS (institute for integrated circuits) will present a 10Gbit/s data link for cars that works over a simple twisted pair at Electronica in Munich next week. The aim is to...
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FTDI Chip launches USB 3.0 ICs
FT600Q and FT601Q are FTDI Chip’s first generation USB 3.0 products that function as SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to FIFO bridges, providing data bursting rates of up to 3.2Gbps. The FT600Q comes in 56-pin QFN...
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FTDI Chip on a roll
FTDI Chip is on something of a roll. At Electronica, FTDI founder and CEO Fred Dart said he expects revenue increase of 20%-25% this year. The USB controller chip specialist was demonstrating first...
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Five launches for TDK at Electronica
TDK unveiled five products at Electronica, including a duplexer for LTE Band 1, an active filter to minimise leakage currents and a PLZT-based capacitor. One is a 1.8×1.4mm EPCOS duplexer for LTE Band...
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Marvell launches two highly integrated LTE SoCs
Marvell has launched a couple of mobile ICs for LTE – a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53-based IC running at 1.2GHz and an octo-core Cortex-A53-based SoC running at 1.5GHz. The quad-core, the PXA1908,...
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Bluetooth v4.2 puts sensors on the net
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to push Bluetooth Smart further into IoT applications by adopting version 4.2 of the Bluetooth core specification. A new profile will enable IP...
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GaN technology storms transistor market
Liam Devlin and Andy Dearn describe the design of a 25W X-band gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier. Gallium nitride (GaN) technology is very well suited to the realisation of solid-state microwave...
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DECT ULE certification programme at CES
The DECT ULE Alliance will present its certification program at CES in Las Vegas. “This is an important step forward, to mix and match smart home products, as you do with Wi-Fi clients,” said a...
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FPGA wakes processor on voice command
Lattice Semiconductor has developed human voice detection and command recognition intellectual property for its iCE40 family of FPGAs for mobiles. The idea is that the main application processor stays...
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UK designed nano drone to fly in CES
UK-based Torquing Group has launched its nano drone for aerial photography and HD video capture. The hand-sized ZANO uses a Wi-Fi module supplied by Lantronix to provide wireless interfaces with to...
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CSR targets ARM mbed with Bluetooth boards
CSR is focusing its embedded design strategy on the ARM mbed operating system. CSR plans to offer two mbed expansion boards, also known as shields, to support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi interfaces. One...
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Marvell reference design combines Armada and Avastar
Marvell has introduced a 4×4 802.11ac Wave-2 Wi-Fi SoC called the AP3200 reference Platform which combines the company’s Armada and Avastar product lines. The company says that by integrating dual...
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