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The internet of things (IoT) has come about because of five technologies: Moore’s law, Metcalf’s Law, battery technology, sensors, and wireless communications. But already we are seeing the internet of things sub-divide into two different sectors of application – consumer and industrial.  Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Typically when people think about the internet of things, they tend ...

Rohde & Schwarz has added a spectrum analysis and spectrogram option to its RTM oscilloscopes. Using the RTM-K18 option, time and spectrum analyses can be configured completely independently of one another. This makes it possible to simultaneously analyse signal details that differ in time and frequency. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Separate implementation of the signal paths makes ...

Altium has announced the next update to its PCB design tool, Altium Designer. The new features in Altium Designer 15.1 are adding to an existing foundation set in place with the initial release of Altium Designer 15, which focused on improvements to the high-speed design process.   Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Version 15.1 is adds: Improved support ...

Texas Instruments has released a family of low-power wireless microcontrollers, claiming 10 year life on a single coin cell in a ZigBee or 6LoWPAN light switch. Applications in fitness and internet-of-things applications are also expected, and the 6LoWPAN versions comes with an in-built IPv6 address. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » The completely new design combines an ARM Cortex-M3 ...

Atmel has introduced a range of automotive-qualified ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs with an integrated peripheral touch controller (PTC) for capacitive touch applications. The microcontroller can be used for capacitive touch button, slider, wheel or proximity sensing applications. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Designated SAM DA1, the microcontroller has specified performance of 2.14 Coremark/MHz and a maximum operating frequency of ...

Mouser Electronics continues to see big growth in the European components market. The online and catalogue distributor saw its European business grow by 41% in the calendar year January to December 2014. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » As a result, Europe now accounts for 26% of Mouser’s sales.  During the year, Graham Maggs, Mouser’s European marketing director said the ...

Microsemi has worked with Germany-based encryption specialist Escrypt on a reference design using its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs. The designs incorporate Escrypt’s CycurKEYS cloud-based Certificate Authority (CA). Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » The cloud service allows users to integrate Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) functionality into their systems without the cost and complexity of building and hosting ...

Freescale Semiconductor has added messaging semaphore and a higher level of encryption security to its i.MX 6SoloX dual-core ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) device. The SoC incorporates cryptographic cipher engines and a configurable resource domain controller that allows peripherals to be locked or shared by the CPU cores. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Also on-chip is a secure messaging semaphore unit that ...

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced at Embedded World today a PSoC 4 programmable system-on-chip device with a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core. The aim is to allow customers to upgrade existing 8- and 16-bit applications without significant cost increase. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » The device also adds more programmable analogue and digital blocks, 128kbyte flash memory, a direct memory ...

Green Hills Software tools and compilers now support an expanded range of Imagination’s MIPS CPU intellectual property (IP). This includes support for the microMIPS code compression instruction set architecture (ISA) and support for MIPS Warrior M-class and I-class CPUs, including key architectural features such as hardware virtualization. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » This year, Green Hills Software will ...