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IoT in the outer Hebrides

Steve Bush — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:25:26 +0000

Part its ‘IoT Evolve’ programme, CENSIS teamed up with consultancy FarrPoint to monitor humidity, temperature and visitor numbers in the Ravenspoint Centre Museum (right) using a LoRaWAN network – adding ...

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Digitally-tuned capacitors for 6G RF front-ends

Steve Bush — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:29:56 +0000

Nanusens has demonstrated a mems digitally-tuneable capacitor for 5G and 6G RF front-ends, that is compatible with CMOS IC processing and can be integrated with circuitry. The Q-factor is above ...

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Arduino shield demonstrates 25m optical fibre comms

Steve Bush — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:16:43 +0000

OMC has launched a fibre optic transceiver shield for Arduino Uno, designed to work with PMMA (polymer) optical cables up to 25m long, plus demonstration software. Operation is possible at ...

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ISO 15118 vehicle-to-grid data communication evaluation module with protocol stacks

Steve Bush — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:29:20 +0000

Arrow Electronics has developed an ISO 15118 vehicle-to-grid data communication evaluation module. “The software, developed at Arrow’s engineering centre in Gdansk, contains protocol stacks for ISO 15118 V2G. There is ...

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300GHz receiver with 300GHz silicon transistors

Steve Bush — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:56:01 +0000

A mixer-first sliding-IF architecture has been chosen by a PhD student to create a 300GHz radio receiver front-end using 300GHz Ft (450GHz Fmax) transistors from a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS process. ...

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56Gbit/s zero-IF D-band beam-forming transmitter for 120-145GHz comms

Steve Bush — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:58:38 +0000

Imec unveiled a CMOS 56Gbit/s zero-IF D-band beam-forming transmitter at the IEEE RFIC Symposium in Washington. “It is a key component of a 4-way beamforming transceiver chip currently being developed ...

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1.6Tbit/s Ethernet measurement demonstration

Steve Bush — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:05:29 +0000

Keysight Technologies and Credo Semiconductor have demonstrated IEEE P802.3dj draft specification compliant 1.6Tbit/s Ethernet measurements for full line rate Layer 2 Ethernet traffic in hardware. “This provides proof that 1.6T ...

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Nvidia Blackwell GPU shares Hopper architecture but ramps up performance

Caroline Hayes — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:19:02 +0000

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC ...

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Module provides 10m location accuracy and LTE-M for IoT comms

Steve Bush — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:17:17 +0000

U-blox is sampling a module that combine LTE-M cellular communication (23dBm output) and GNSS for precise location finding. SARA-R520M10 is the super-set device, combining on-board an LTE-M and NB-IoT IC ...

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Parallel Wireless deploys 1,500 O-RAN sites across Africa

David Manners — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:26:37 +0000

Parallel Wireless (PW), the US O-RAN specialist has deployed 1,500 O-RAN sites across Africa. Expanding mobile connectivity throughout Africa is a unique challenge due to unreliable or inaccessible sources of ...

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