Internet of Things

Ask any senior executive in a semiconductor company to pick their “most important” product family is rather like pinning down a proud mother or father and asking them to choose between their children, writes Farnell.

Rohm is claiming 97% efficient operation with a 200mA load and 2.8µA quiescent current from a buck-boost dc-dc converter that produces 2.5V or 3.3V (selectable) from 2.0-5.5V. Up to 1A is available at 3.3V with the input above 2.7V (see bottom table). This is all from a 1.20 x 1.60 x 0.57mm 12pin WL-CSP UCSP50L1C package, including the four necessary mosfets. Called BD83070GWL, externally ...

The Smart Buildings Reference Kit is a collection of tools for LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol

UK consultancy 42 Technology has ported a Rust programming language application to a single-chip IoT device, claiming it as a world first. “Rust is a very-high-performance alternative to systems programming languages such C and C++, which avoids the memory safety issues that plague those languages, and without the complexity and overhead of Java,” according to the firm. “It is the ...

Tools to evaluate and develop application firmware based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9160 system in package (SiP) are provided in the nRF9160 development kit, which is now available from Rutronik UK. The single board kit is designed for cellular IoT development and supports 690MHz – 960MHz and 1710MHz -2200MHz for both M1 and NB-IoT standards. The kit is hardware-compatible with the ...

QuaDRiGa 2.2, is a comprehensive update of the open-source radio channel model.

DigiTrans is a spin-off  from the University of Antwerp and imec which handles data for transportation systems. The transport sector struggles with rigid systems, often specialized in a single task, that require a lot of manual handling, human interactions and multiple checking. Digitrans is a uniform middleware product that connects to any data source or sensors and enables data to ...

Ricoh has launched two Buck DC/DC Converters, RP516 and RP517, designed for wearables and IoT. The chips are designed for applications that require a low supply voltage in between 0.3 and 1.2 V. This kind of power supply is tailored to support the newest generation of low power MCU’s, GPS/GNSS receiver/processors and other ICs which are required in IoT applications for ...

The research institute and manufacturer announced a five-year common lab to design components for 5G networks and harsh environments. Announced during Leti Innovation Days in Grenoble, the lab will develop low profile, millimeter-wave antenna solutions for backhaul/fronthaul applications. Figure 1: The backhaul refers to the network links between the radio base stations and the network controller/gateway sites. The fronthaul is ...

Dialog has launched the first Wi-Fi SoC since it bought Silicon Motion’s mobile communications product line in May. The FC9000 is targeted at battery-powered IoT devices such as smart door locks, video monitoring systems, smart thermostats, and wireless sensors enabling direct connectivity to Wi-Fi networks, while typically supporting a battery power lifetime greater than one year. Previously, devices running on Zigbee, ...