Imagination and GF collaborate to put low power wireless on SoCs

Imagination Technologies and Global Foundries are to collaborate to offer low-power baseband and RF functions  – Bluetooth Low Energy and IEEE 802.15.4, for example – to mutual customers. The deal combines Imagination’s Ensigma radio IP with 22FDX from GF – its 22nm FD-SOI process. “22FDX is an appealing option for customers designing cost-sensitive devices,” said ...

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US researchers turn to Raspberry Pi for clean air research

The University of Utah turned to Raspberry Pis when it need to equip four homes with smart sensing for clean air research. The Pis controlled the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in each house, based on data from three off-the-shelf wireless particulate pollution sensors added to each house, two inside rooms and one ...

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China to account for 19% of foundry sales this year

2018 foundry sales into  in the US, Japan and Asia-Pac will be flat with last year, reckons IC Insights, while foundry sales into Europe will be up 9% this year on last, but foundry sales into China will be up 51%  in 2018 compared with 2017, which means that China will account for 19% of ...

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sureCore offering SRAM IP customisation

sureCore, the Sheffield SRAM specialist, has announced a low-power SRAM IP application-centric, customisation service that delivers specific power and performance requirements. The service is aimed at applications like wearables, wireless, augmented reality and IoT devices whose requirements go beyond standard low-power memory IP. The new service covers a spectrum of memory requirements covering multiple read/write ...

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Renesas puts out LPWA IoT design kit

The Renesas Synergy AE-CLOUD2 kit is a complete hardware and software reference design that allows embedded developers to evaluate cellular connectivity options and build Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) cellular IoT applications. The AE-CLOUD2 kit together with the new Synergy Software Package (SSP) version 1.5.0 simplifies connecting IoT sensor devices to enterprise cloud services using ...

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What’s Next for Mouser

Mouser has signed microcontroller board specialist What’s Next to a  distribution agreement. Mouser now stocks eight unique, Arduino-compatible What’s Next microcontroller boards — including the Yellow, Red, Green, and Orange boards. Thee entry-level Yellow and Red boards are based on a Microchip ATmega328 microcontroller. Each board provides 20 digital input/output (IO) pins (with up to ...

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60V dual boost converter self-cascades to over 200V

Analog Devices has announced a two-phase boost controller whose phases can be arranged in multiple topologies, including one in which the output of the first channel can feed the input of second channel allowing output voltage to exceed several hundred volts. Called LTC7840, each output works with its own external mosfet. There is no option for a ...

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Imagination and GF combine for BLE and Zigbee on 22nm FD-SOI

Imagination and GloFo are to collaborate on baseband and RF solutions for BLE and Zigbee. The combination uses Imagination’s Ensigma connectivity IP on GF’s 22nm FD-SOI process. Imagination has joined GF’s FDXcelerator Partner Program. Ensigma on 22FDX provides a complete IP solution comprising analogue RF/AFE as a hard macro complete with a fully synthesizable baseband ...

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Health on the wrist

Continuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices is enabled by Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0. This  rapid prototyping, evaluation and development platform, delivers ECG, heart rate and body temperature to a wrist-worn wearable. Data can be stored on the platform for patient evaluation or streamed to a PC for analysis later. The data measurements ...

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