Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach $266 billion in 2021, says IDC. PAlthough spending growth will slow over the 2016-2021 forecast period, the market is expected to achieve a five-year CAGR of 21.0%. Public cloud services spending will reach $128 billion in 2017, an increase of 25.4% over 2016. ...
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TI has introduced a pair of single-chip buck-boost battery charge controllers for one- to four-cell (1S to 4S) designs. The bq25703A and bq25700A synchronous charge controllers support efficient charging through USB Type-C and other USB ports in end equipment ranging from notebooks and tablets to power banks, drones and smart home applications. To learn ...
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With the official release of Bluetooth mesh networking, Silicon Labs is implementing it on existing silicon with three three software packages. Bluetooth mesh is a protocol that will run on top of any Bluetooth 4.0 device. It does not need Bluetooth 5 hardware, Silicon Labs marketing manager Mikko Savolainen told Electronics Weekly. It relies completely on ...
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) officially announces today full Bluetooth support for mesh networking, with version 1.0 of its specification.
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CML Microcircuits is offering two phase-locked loops and a VCO in one chip. Called CMX979 is designed to implement an RF synthesiser at the same time as an IF synthesiser. The RF synthesiser operates over 2.7-3.6GHz with a integrated VCO and PLL, and is capable of operating between 338MHz and 3.6GHz via a configurable output frequency ...
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Microchip has added 16kbyte flash options to its ATtiny AVR microcontroller family and, despite the extra flash, the devices are pin and code compatible with the recently released ATtiny817 series of MCUs, according to the firm. “There is more growth and innovation in the AVR MCU portfolio now than at any point in the past ...
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Mentor has teamed up with online components library SnapEDA, which now supports its PADS and DX Designer PCB design tools. Users can access to SnapEDA’s component library containing millions of symbols, footprints, and 3D models. All parts are auto-verified with SnapEDA’s proprietary verification technology. “We’re seeing a shift in the industry where it’s no longer ...
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Omron Electronic Components has introduced a multi-function environmental sensor for use as part of autonomous IoT systems. Designated 2JCIE-BL01, the sensor measures temperature, humidity, light, UVI, barometric pressure, noise and acceleration. The device also has embedded memory for data logging to keep track of the surroundings. Data from the module can be downloaded over Bluetooth ...
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Renesas Electronics says the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled in its favour in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it in 2013 by a Massachusetts-based firm named Zond. In July 2013, Zond brought suit against a number of semiconductor companies, including Renesas, alleging that the companies infringed eight of its US ...
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Corelight, the San Francisco cybersecurity specialist, has closed a $9.2 million Series A funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from Osage University Partners and Riverbed Technology Co-founder Dr. Steve McCanne. The Corelight Sensor is used to investigate and prevent ransomware, denial of service, unauthorized access, misconfiguration, abuse, exfiltration of data, malware infection, insider ...
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