The RISC-V Foundation has set up a China Advisory Committee to accelerate the RISC-V ecosystem in China. Chairman of the Committee is Dr Jesse Zhixi Fang, CEO of Tangram Technologies and a former Intel vp who launched Intel Labs China. Fang will work with local stakeholders and recruit contributors within the RISC-V community in China to ...
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Murata claims the smallest narrow-band IoT (NBIoT) cellular wireless module with a 15.6 mm x 14.0 mm x 2.2 mm device fabricated on a PCB with a metal casing. The LBAD0ZZ1RX is designed for use in compact, battery powered IoT/IIoT applications. The module integrates a HiSilicon Hi2115 single-die wireless SoC device that provides the radio transceiver, ...
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Mouser has produced an e-book focused on home automation as part of All Things IoT, the latest in Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the first of three e-books in the series, Mouser experts explore the engineering behind the IoT that is automating homes, offices and industry. Topics include best practices in building a home automation ...
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At Electronica next week, On Semi will be aiming at on-board electric vehicle charging with power modules. FAM65xxx is a family of APM16-packaged devices, with one device outline covering H-Bridge, power factor correction and bridge rectifier configurations. Internally, the devices have a direct-bonded copper (DBC) structure that is isolated to 5kVac “making them easier to ...
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British agri-tech start up Small Robot Company officially unveiled ‘Harry’, its digital planting robot, at Agri-Tech East’s REAP 2018 Conference in Cambridge. Harry is a prototype of what Small Robot claims will be the world’s first digital drilling robot for combinable crops, one of three smart robots called Tom, Dick and Harry robots that are ...
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MAX22190 is an IEC 61131-2 compliant industrial digital input device, which translates eight 24V current-sinking inputs to an SPI-compatible serial output that interfaces with 3V to 5.5V logic. A current setting resistor allows it to be configured for Type 1, Type 2, or Type 3 inputs. “Designed to reduce power, system cost, and size for ...
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A flexible sensor developed by University of California Berkeley can map blood-oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs. It is an array of alternating red and near-infrared organic LEDs and organic photodiodes printed on a flexible material. “When you hear the word oximeter, finger-clip sensors come into your mind,” said Berkely engineer ...
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Renesas has introduced a safety analysis tool intended to ease the integration of the firm’s products into safety-critical automotive systems “while increasing user confidence in system compliance to the latest safety standard”, it said. The failure mode effects and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA) software is optimized for ISO 26262, which addresses safety of electrical and electronic systems ...
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Gemalto, the security specialist, has launched a wireless NB-IoT platform. The majority of the IoT connections are emerging in the industrial IoT (IIoT) sector where LPWAN technologies such as NB-IoT are driving expansion. Gemalto’s platform calked Cinterion will offer an integrated eSIM which authenticates IoT devices, encrypts data and securely manage connections to cellular networks. Soldered to the ...
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TI has announced a 60-GHz sensor portfolio for mmWave sensing. IWR6x mmWave sensors enable industrial automation through on-chip processing capabilities, providing real-time decision-making and signal processing. The newest 60-GHz mmWave sensors will be the first to include antenna-on-package offerings, which remove traditional challenges associated with radio-frequency (RF) design while shrinking size up to 75% and ...
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