The LoRa Alliance has announced the public availability of three new specifications to support and standardize firmware updates over the air (FUOTA), a capability unique to LoRaWAN among LPWANs. These major enhancements to the protocol are accompanied by significant growth in deployments and certification, with an increase of more than 50% in the number of LoRaWAN Certifie products ...

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The  CEVA Deep Neural Network (CDNN) compiler supports the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format. “By adding ONNX support to our CDNN compiler technology, we provide our CEVA-XM and NeuPro customers and ecosystem partners with much broader capabilities to train and enrich their neural network-based applications,”says CEVA’s Ilan Yona. ONNX is an open format created ...

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IQD’s IOSC-EV Board available can be used to test standard surface mount clock oscillators, VCXOs or TCXO/VCTCXOs. The IOSC-EV Board comes with six smaller boards that can be snapped from the side of the main board and onto which different size 4 pad packaged oscillators can be soldered. The smaller board can then be soldered ...

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Infineon has put  a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), specifically for automotive applications, on the market. The  OPTIGA TPM 2.0 protects communication between the car manufacturer and the car which increasingly turns into a computer on wheels. A number of car manufacturers already designed in Infineon’s OPTIGA TPM. The TPM is a hardware-based security solution.  By using ...

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ST’s  Q3 net revenues were up 18.1% y-oy at  $2.52 billion for a profit of $369 million which was up 56.7% y-o-y and an operating margin of 15.8% which was up 270 bps y-oy. “ST had another quarter of solid performance, with sequential revenue growth of 11.2%, above our 10% midpoint outlook, and operating margin ...

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OmniVision is shipping a  2-micron image sensor family  built with OmniBSI pixel technology. The two sensors, the OS02F10 and OS04B10, provide cost-effective backside illumination (BSI) solutions and are designed for capturing high definition (HD) images in entry-level IoT, industrial, commercial, and residential security and surveillance cameras. Their chief ray angle (CRA) of 9 degrees enables thinner ...

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  September billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment were down 6.5% on August at $2.09 billion compared to August,reports SEMI. August billings were $2.37 billion. September billings are 1.8% higher than the $2.05 billion of September 2017. “Quarterly global billings of North American equipment suppliers experienced their typical seasonal weakening in the most recent quarter,” says SEMI ...

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