Arduino announced Uno WiFi Rev 2, the company’s first AVR-based, natively-enabled IoT board. This new addition to the Arduino product family will address the demand of the growing IoT market, especially in need of wireless connectivity and low power requirements. Arduino Uno WiFi Rev 2 includes a new enhanced AVR microcontroller from Microchip, making it even […]
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Built-in analog-to-digital converters
There are sensors for a plethora of smart applications that can measure a wide range of parameters (e.g., temperature, light, acceleration, pressure, proximity, etc.). The real world data is analog. Therefore sensors typically provide analog data in the form of voltage (e.g., 0V-5V) and most of the time this data is later transformed into digital […]
AC LED modules comply with industry standard 4kV surge testing
Seoul Semiconductor has demonstrated a 277V AC lighting module using its NanoDriver Series LED driver that complies with the industry standard 4kV surge testing. Prior to this, AC LED modules have been mainly used only in residential lighting applications due to the technology’s limited capability to meet the surge requirements for industrial and commercial applications. This […]
Embedded boards include Intel “Cherry Trail” Atom x5-Z8350 processor clocked at 1.92 GHz
As the maker-board community has moved to demand certain features from new board designs, it has become essential that industrial-capacity boards also offer those features, so that development products can move easily to production, with the long life-cycle and ruggedness needed. Estone Technology’s newest EMB-2610 Pico-ITX board is the next step in this evolution. The […]
Modules handle automotive ethernet, secure mobile connectivity
With the global connected car market expected to skyrocket over the next five years, technology leader Laird is launching the auto industry’s first fully integrated and scalable module for secure mobile connectivity and automotive ethernet for reliable Internet use inside and outside the vehicle, the company announced today. Laird MAX (Modular Automotive Connectivity Solution), which is being […]
Arduino boards include WiFi, latest narrowband IoT standard
Arduino has launched two new wireless connectivity boards to help streamline Internet of Things (IoT) development. The first of the boards is the MKR WiFi 1010, which offers low power consumption and has been designed not only to speed up and simplify the prototyping of WiFi-based IoT applications, but also to be embedded in production […]
Reference designs simplify power solutions for MPSoC, SoC, and FPGA devices
Newark element14 is supporting customers of the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family with the launch of two Texas Instruments reference designs to ease the development of power solutions for customers developing innovative applications using these devices. Each reference design, which provides customers with an easy way to prototype their designs before fully understanding their power needs, is […]
Wireless biosensor platform targets wearables for life-critical medical, healthcare monitoring apps
The Life Signal Product platform, the world’s first family of semiconductor chips optimized for mobile and wearable applications in medical and health monitoring for life-critical applications, was introduced today by LifeSignals Inc. The product family was developed and industrialized in conjunction with STMicroelectronics and 3M to meet the stringent needs of the medical market. The […]
High-accuracy MEMS sensors optimized for fine-positioning mechanisms
ST Microelectronics is extending its commitment to drive advanced automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by adding new high-stability MEMS sensors with 10-year product-longevity assurance. The new sensors, to be made available during 2018, begin with the IIS3DHHC, a 3-axis accelerometer optimized for high measurement resolution and stability to ensure accuracy over time and […]
Mesh networking software now built into BLE radios
Wirepas and Silicon Labs today announced they have joined forces to deliver a combined hardware and software solution that unleashes the potential of multiprotocol connectivity for mesh networks. Building on their growing relationship and success in the smart metering market, Wirepas and Silicon Labs have collaborated to create an industry first: a truly concurrent multiprotocol switching solution with one ERF32 […]