Internet of Things

An upcoming Japanese bonding technology will enable the 5G Smart City revolution, believes Alex Spatzig, Business Development Manager for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Europe. Nearly a hundred years on from the first commercial mobile telephony service – which, curiously enough, was offered on trains between Hamburg and Berlin in Germany – we are ushering in the fifth generation of mobile network ...

STMicroelectronics has joined the Zeta Alliance, which promotes the Zeta low-power wide area network (LPWAN). Zeta is a competitor to LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT, and came out of Shanghai-based ZiFiSense. “ST is actively engaged with the industry bodies for all leading LPWAN standards for IoT connectivity and offers a portfolio of solutions,” according to ST. “Zeta has a strong value proposition ...

U-blox has combined LPWA (low-power wide-area) connectivity and GNSS (satellite navigation) into a single 14 x 14 x 1.5mm package – half the size of the company’s functionally-similar Sara-R5 module (16 x 26 x 2.2mm). Called Alex-R5, it is based on u-blox’ secured UBX-R5 LTE-M and NB-IoT, plus its M8 GNSS chip. “By bringing all technology building blocks in-house and ...

Asic and foundry service specialist, Redtree Solutions has signed an agreement with Agile Analog, making the latter’s configure IP available as part of the RedASIC custom chip design service. Redtree offers turnkey asic services, including offshore and local design, analogue, RF, mixed and digital design, foundry prototyping to production services, packaging and testing for both prototyping and volume production and ...

Distributor Farnell has increased its range of products from XP Power, with the PLS600 series of DC power supplies, the DRC series of DIN rail power supplies, the FCS range of AC-DC power supplies and the VCE series for industrial and domestic power supplies. The PLS600 single output programmable DC power supplies are intended for laboratory, production, and embedded test ...

EDA company, Mentor, has joined Nano 2022, the latest project to promote the French electronics manufacturing industry. It covers components, connectors and PCBs, to design and assembly, distribution, embedded software and software tools. The project is part of the European Commission’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to promote research and innovation in power ICs, sensors, optical equipment and ...

AMD’s latest Ryzen Embedded processor  has been used by congatec in a COM Express Compact module with Type 6 pinout, intended for industrial PCs and thin clients where compute and graphics performance are critical for deep learning. The Ryzen Embedded V2000 processor is at the heart of the conga-TCV2. According to congatec, it doubles performance per W and has twice ...

Most international travellers arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport probably haven’t noticed the thermal imaging cameras mounted on what look like streetlights inside the terminal, writes Texas Instruments’ Apoorva Awasthy. But travellers with a temperature above 38°C may be familiar with the new thermal screening technology deployed there this summer. That’s because airport officials are advising anyone with ...

Maxim has announced a suite of integrated circuits and reference designs for industrial automation using IO-Link communications. IO-Link is a short-range (<20m) point-to-point industrial bus developed to connect sensors and actuators to a local hub, from which the data is transferred to a remote PLC (programmable logic controller) via Ethernet or other long-range field bus. “The IO-Link interface allows every ...

AI chip provider, Untether AI, has based its tsunAImi accelerator cards on its runAI200 chips, which, the company claims, are the first at-memory computation engines. They offer up to 8TOPS/W efficiency to deliver more than twice the computation rates of any other PCIe card, says the company. Instead of a conventional Von Neumann architecture which is designed to move data, ...