SiFive has raised $65.4 million in a Series D funding round in which Qualcomm participated. Qualcomm is one of Arm’s biggest customers so, by taking a stake in Arm’s biggest rival, it is signalling a possible switch of allegiance. “Qualcomm Ventures invests in innovative technology companies that have the potential to transform industries.” said Quinn ...
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Cornell University’s cluster of 105 tiny satellites has come to an end, burning up as planned to remove it self as a space hazard. Artist’s impression of deployment Launched from 3U CubeSat KickSat-2 in March, the ‘Sprite ChipSats’ were ~32x32mm PCBs and weighed 4g each including solar cells, radio and microcontroller. “This demonstration confirms that ...
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Radio modules using STMicroelectronics’ STM32WB55 wireless microcontroller are available from Arrow Electronics. The Sharky modules were co-developed with Italian designer, Midatronics. The microcontroller integrates a 2.4GHz RF transceiver supporting Bluetooth 5 (including Bluetooth Low Energy), Thread, and ZigBee stacks. Its dual Arm Cortex-M core architecture enables real-time secure application performance running on the 64MHz Cortex-M4F ...
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Cliff is releasing its rugged cable reel as a separate part, to allow customers to create their own bespoke cable assemblies – it is usually sold loaded with one of the firm’s standard test leads. “We are a designer and manufacturer of test lead sets supplied with many well-known brands of test meters, as well as ...
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Fractus is aiming at narrow-band-IoT, LoRa, Sigfox, LTE-M and Zigbee with an antenna evaluation board and application note that covers 824-960MHz and 1.71-2.69GHz through a single input/output port. It uses firm’s FR01-S4-224 antenna (see diagram), which has a 12 x 3mm footprint – a device which featured in an earlier 863-928MHz app note design – but ...
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Now available from RS Components, the Minitek Pwr series from Amphenol consists of 3.0mm, 4.2mm and 5.7mm devices and includes high current-handling capability. The compact connectors include wire-to-board and wire-to-wire configurations and has been designed with fully-polarised scoop-proof housings to protect terminals from damage, and a low insertion force. The 3.0mm-pitch devices have power contacts ...
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Renesas is aiming at industry with a microcontroller that combines an EtherCAT slave controller, motor control capability and a 240MHz version of its RX core – delivering a 1396 CoreMark. These attributes are being offered in the RX72M Group, which the fims is describing as “the new flagship product group for the Renesas RX family”. Applications ...
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DRAM manufacturing may be a loss-making activity by the end of the year, reports DRAMeXchange. “A heated US -China trade war may send demand in the second half of this year into quick-freeze, with the increasingly looming uncertainty compelling datacenters to make reductions to capex,” says DRAMeXchange, “fragile DRAM suppliers may have to admit current inventory ...
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OpenHW is a not-for-profit organization aimed at boosting the adoption of open-source processors by providing a platform for collaboration, creating a focal point for ecosystem development, and offering open-source IP for processor cores. Headed by Founder and CEO, Rick O’Connor (pictured), the OpenHW Group has already recruited 13 sponsor organizations and expects this to grow ...
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Hackster.io has a tutorial on how to use Raspberry Pi to collect data from several different sensors, sending them to an IoT service, ThingSpeak.com and to a mobile App (Thingsview), where data can be logged and played with. It explores several different communication ways of connecting sensors to a Raspberry Pi, as: DHT22 – Temperature ...
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